PROGRAMME
Location of meeting
Chadwick Seminar Room, Institute for Risk and Uncertainty
Chadwick Building
University of Liverpool
Tuesday, 28th June: Registration 13.00 - 14.30 pm
Session 1 Welcome and first papers
Chair: Iain Young
14.30 Iain Young: The Institute of Risk and Uncertainty
14.45 Helen Macbeth: International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF)
15.00 Lucy Antal: Liverpool Food People
15.20 Clarissa Antal-Smith: Co-op’s Fairtrade Strategy
15.40 Cathryn Higgs: Policy for reducing food waste
16.20 Paper to be confirmed
16.40 General Discussion.
17.30-19.00 Reception and presentation at Ibis Hotel by Albert Dock
Wednesday, 29th June:
Session 2 – Rural Case Studies
Chair: Gabriel Saucedo
9.30 Wulf Schiefenhövel: Fish ponds in Highland New Guinea: an intelligent answer to dramatic local change
9.55 Isaura Garcia Lopez: Culture and food in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla,Mexico
10.20 Valentina Peveri: Feeding a hungry nation: orphan crops for a food-secure landscape in Ethiopia
10.40 Discussion
10.50 Coffees/teas
Session 3 – Change and Transitions
Chair: Wulf Schiefenhövel
11.20 Peter Kaiser: Problems for Karen farmers returning to their villages from refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border: how can sustainability be achieved?
11. 45 Michael Bruckert: Between malnutrition and ecological sustainability: meat systems in India
12.10 Giovanni Orlando: Anxious appetites in a post-Pasteurian world: what about sustainability?
12.30 Discussion
12.40 Lunch break (pies by Homebaked, Anfield)
Session 4 – Sustainability and products
Chair: Peter Kaiser
13.40 Amanda Berlan: The future of chocolate: an anthropological examination of changing patterns of production and consumption
14.05 Daria Deraga and Rodolfo Fernández: Biodiversity and sustainability in the traditional production of mezcal spirits in West Mexico
14.30 Xavier Medina and Lorenzo Mariano: Policies and ideology about water and water-sustainability in Yucatán: contributions from anthropology
Discussion followed by Coffees/teas
Session 5 – Concerns with the environment
Chair: Xavier Medina
15.20 Ricardo Avila, Martin Tena and Raymundo F. Villavicencio: Phytogenetic Resources for Food at Barranca del Rio Santiago, Mexico
15.55 Sophie Anne Sauvegrain: How our environmental awareness is expressed through our food habits
16.20 Virginie Masdoua: Experimentation of a new food store in a University campus to promote sustainable food among students
Thursday, June 30th
Session 6 – Sustainability and health
Chair: Daria Deraga
9.30 Xavier Medina: From healthy to sustainable: transforming the concept of the Mediterranean Diet from health to sustainability through culture
9.55 Maria Antonia Monserrat: Adaptations of food systems around the challenges of sustainability, health and social welfare: an ethnography
10.20 Helen Macbeth: Dig to sustain! Allotments, gardens and television
10.40 Discussion
10.50 – 11.15 Coffees/teas
Session 7 – Theoretical approaches
Chair: Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz
11.15 Jose Ignacio Arévalo: The Utopian thought: a recipe for understanding the role of food in human sustainability
11.40 Kirsteen Shields: Who pays for food security?
12.05 Paul Collinson: The impact of conflict on food sustainability in Africa
12.25 Discussion
12.40 Lunch hosted by Quorn + their display
13.40 ICAF business meeting + teas/coffees
14.45 visit to the Student Guild to see their Rocket Composter in action and view the
aquaponic roof garden.
Session 8 – Waste and sustainability
Chair: Paul Collinson
15.45: Gabriel J Saucedo, Citlali Montiel, Teresa I Anaya and Rocío Luna López;
Food loss and waste in the macro- and micro- social landscapes of Mexico
16.10 Iain Young: Sustainable waste management technology
16.35 Stephen Old: How ReFood turn food waste into bio fuels and bio compost
17.00 Carl Beer: Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority
17.20 Discussion and directions for going to the dinner
Walk to Constellations, The Observatory, 37-39 Greenland Street.
19.00 Conference Dinner (bar open 18.00), catered by Real Junk Food Project Liverpool
Friday, July 1st :
Session 9 Sustainability in urban situations
Chair: Lucy Antal
9.30 Sam Jones: Homebaked, Anfield
9.55 Angélica Santiesteban: ‘Herederas’ multidisciplinary project regarding food habits
10.20 Livia Alexander: Bring in the artists to the (farmers’) markets
10.45 Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz: Other ways of eating out in Spain: food itineraries in a context of increasing precarization
11.05 Discussion
11.15 Coffees/teas and directions for walk to the Grapes Community Garden
11.30 walk to Windsor Street to Visit to the Grapes Community Garden in Toxteth and their outdoor café. [NB we have to be there by 12.15 and it’s a 25 minute walk.]
Session 10 Sustainability in urban action
Chair: Helen Macbeth
14.00 Leo Pang: Eco farmers in peri-urban Shanghai: practices, ethos and legitimacy
14.25 Iain Young: The role of aquaponics in urban sustainability and education
14.50 Lucy Antal: Sustainable Food in six British cities – a study
15.35 Final Discussion and conclusions.
Afternoon tea arranged by Lucy Antal
Saturday, 2nd July
Relevant visit meeting Michael Simon from Granby4Streets (corner of Granby Street and Princes Road on the direct bus routes 80 and 80A between centre and Carnatic Halls) at 10.45/11am. For a 11am talk and tour of the community market and project.
For the afternoon Lucy Antal has created a useful list of interesting visits and restaurants in Liverpool, which participants who arrive early or stay longer should find useful (already circulated).
The conference organisers are grateful to the following for their support:
The University of Liverpool
The Institute of Risk and Uncertainty
Liverpool Food People
ICAF(UK)
Constellations, Liverpool
The Co-operative Group, UK
Ibis Hotel, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority, Liverpool
Princes Foods, Liverpool
Quorn, Marlow Foods, Stokesley
Typhoo Teas, Liverpool
Helen Macbeth, President of ICAF,
Iain Young, Institute of Risk and Uncertainty,
Lucy Antal, coordinator of Liverpool Food People,
Paul Collinson, Treasurer of ICAF.