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Geoff Tansey
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The videos on this channel aim to help understanding of the food system, show how food is a lens through which to look at the world, and examine the transformations needed to create fair, sustainable food systems in the face of the challenges of the 21st century. The longer videos are part of a set of talks available on The Food Systems Academy website - www.foodsystemsacademy.org.uk/. There you will find more information about the speakers and follow-up reading and links. Please go to the site and fill in the survey about each video after watching.
The 1200 year old Olive tree - interview with Prof Uygun Aksoy
A short video showing a 1200 year old olive tree and old grafted olive trees near Seferhisar, west of Izmir in Turkey
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Inequality - and why it matters: An interview with Richard Wilkinson
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An interview with Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level, about inequality, why it matter and what to so about it.
Climate change and agriculture: adaptation and mitigation by Tim Benton
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This illustrated lecture, especially made for the on-line Food Systems Academy, by Professor Tim Benton, looks at the food system and what climate change means for agriculture, and how it will affect farming, the impact agriculture has on climate change, the contentious issues of meat and livestock production, the fragility of the food system in the face of climate change and some possible futu...
Feeding History at the British Museum - a short tour
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Yi Chen, curator of the ‘The Asahi Shimbun Displays. Feeding history: the politics of food’ exhibition at the British Museum takes us on a tour of the objects on display and their meaning. The small exhibition is on from 28 Feb - 27 May 2019
Gastronomy is about much more than fancy food
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Charlotte Maberly and Stan Blackley of the MSc in Gastronomy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, explain the meaning of gastronomy and how it is far wider than most people think
Helping China's smallholder farmers - Science & Technology Backyard
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A short introduction to the how scientists and students are living in villages in Science and Technology Backyards as a way to help smallholder farmers, work with 'leader' farmers to do research in their fields and improve resource use efficiency in farming and promote higher yields. For further information about the Science and Technology Backyards see www.chinastb.weinuoda.cn (in English) cnn...
Let’s create a fairer future through food - introducing the free, on-line Food Systems Academy
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Get a flavour of the issues we need to address to create a fairer food future in this short film using brief clips from some of the free talks available at the online Food Systems Academy - www.foodsystemsacademy.org.uk.
Sustainable diets and public health - Tim Lang
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In this talk, Tim Lang grapples with the issues surrounding what is a good diet for people's health and environmental sustainability. He moves from the work of Ancel Keys to Sweden's attempt to address this through policy changes in the EU to the failure of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition to tackle the crucial big issues. One of the central ones being 'do I eat fish?'. He rejects ...
Changing our fatally flawed food system by Tim Lang
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In this talk, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, London, briefly shares his personal journey into food policy - from psychologist to hill farmer to professor - and takes us through the reasons why he believes the current food system is fatally flawed, tracing the history of these. He reviews the key problems, the need for a complete change of mind set to tackle these away fr...
How to feed a city - and change the world, by Carolyn Steel
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In this talk, Carolyn Steel reflects on what it takes to feed a city, how food has shaped cities and how the size of cities been contrained until recent times by the ability to feed them. She traces the development of cities from the earliest times, through to the largest city in the ancient world, Rome, to the present day and their relationship to food. From the thinking of Johann von Thünen t...
Andrew Whitley - Changing the food system with bread and agroforestry
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Andrew Whitley shows us round his agroforestry farm in the Scottish borders and explains how he is working to change the food system with bread and agroforestry
Precipice and Possibility for Future Food by Harriet Friedmann
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This is the Sociologica Ruralis Lecture - Precipice and Possibility: A Food Regime Approach to Emergent Futures of Growing and Eating - given at the European Rural Sociology Society conference 2015, in Aberdeen, Scotland on 20 August 2015.
Food, nutrition and poverty - An overview by Elizabeth Dowler
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In this talk, Liz Dowler looks beyond a narrowly scientific, reductionist approach to food, nutrition and health to the bigger picture of what makes for healthy people and communities and the role food plays in this. She puts food and nutrition in its wider social and cultural context, discusses rising inequalities in food, nutrition and poverty and how nutrition components have been used to de...
Understanding intellectual property - 1. An overview
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In part one of his talk, Peter Drahos briefly discusses property in general and its importance for how societies function before examining so-called 'intellectual property rights', which include patent, trademark and copyright laws. He reflects on their benefits and costs, their justifications and their impact on societies, including conferring the private power of taxation. Finally, he uses th...
Gender issues in food and farming - An overview by Janice Jiggins
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Gender issues in food and farming - An overview by Janice Jiggins
The right to food - An overview by Olivier De Schutter
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The right to food - An overview by Olivier De Schutter
Understanding intellectual property 2. How business lobbying changed the world, by Peter Drahos
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Understanding intellectual property 2. How business lobbying changed the world, by Peter Drahos
The crucial century 1945 -2045 by Paul Rogers
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The crucial century 1945 -2045 by Paul Rogers
Food and thriving people in the 21st century
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Food and thriving people in the 21st century
Seeds of contention, control or diversity?
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Seeds of contention, control or diversity?
I very much like the curiosity and critical thinking of Mr. Whitley!🤓👍🏻👏🏼
Is Andrew still alive?
Grains aren’t for animals!!! Stop ruining rye and other grains! If they were for animals they could it eat without having health issues!!!! WHY or HOW is man SO DAMN STUPID!!😫🫠🤕 Otherwise i like your knowledge Andrew and i can’t wait to buy your books!😍🤓 I’m very much into ancient grains/wheat (einkorn, emmer and spelt).
Not that I know of. Glad you liked it. Listen to my recent interview with Andrew on Soundcloud updating what’s happened soundcloud.com/geofft-1/scotland-the-bread-moves-on-with-andrew-whitley
Andrew and John Seymour (Complete Book of Self Sufficiency) would have got on together like a house on fire. I wonder of Andrew knew him. I think he died in 1995 or thereabouts.
Niiiiiice. Is biochar being used? -Worldstar
Thank you very much for this video!
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How do I find Janice Jiggins Email? thank you.
I don't know how to respond to that query because it is clear that she had passed away in January 2024. A great human being, no doubt about that!
Brilliant