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A number of world food and society experts meet in Barcelona
[07/05/2009]
To coincide with the opening of the UOC Food Systems, Culture and Society department, Barcelona will be hosting a meeting of a number of experts in food and society on 7 and 8 May to discuss leading issues, such as world food policies, nutrition level indicators and agricultural policies. These experts are members of the department’s academic committee. The department plans to offer courses for the coming year as part of the UOC’s International Graduate Institute.
To coincide with the opening of the UOC Food Systems, Culture and Society department, Barcelona will be hosting a meeting of a number of experts in food and society on 7 and 8 May to discuss leading issues, such as world food policies, nutrition level indicators and agricultural policies. These experts are members of the department’s academic committee. The department plans to offer courses for the coming year as part of the UOC’s International Graduate Institute.
The aim of the department is to meet the demand for training in the field of food studies, which
has risen in recent years. This interdisciplinary and transversal area encompasses the humanities,
arts and science to aid in-depth study of the organisation of production, regulation, processing,
distribution, selection and consumption of food through a social and cultural vision of food
systems. It also considers questions related to the earth, production, processing, history, tourism
and politics.
The members of the advisory committee include: Rachel E. Black, from the University of British Columbia; Fabio Parasecoli, from the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University; David Barling, from the Centre for Food Policy at City University London; Dario Bevlacqua, from the University of La Sapienza in Rome; Lawrence Busch, from Lancaster University; Neal Fortin, from Michigan State University; Ken Hatt, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria; Willi Meyers, from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI); Aysen Tanyeri-Abur, from Northeastern University, Boston; Angela Barusi, from the Emilia-Romagna region; Damià Serrano, from the University of Barcelona’s CETT, and Jordi Tresserras, from the University of Barcelona.
Also taking part in the meeting on behalf of the UOC are the Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning, Josep Maria Duart; Jessica Duncan, from the Food Systems and Society department, and the department’s Academic Director, Xavier Medina.
The meeting is to be held this week just as the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned of growing uncertainty over food, something that will only increase with the economic crisis. The institution has also urged authorities to step up monitoring of pork production in light of the appearance of new respiratory diseases.
The members of the advisory committee include: Rachel E. Black, from the University of British Columbia; Fabio Parasecoli, from the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University; David Barling, from the Centre for Food Policy at City University London; Dario Bevlacqua, from the University of La Sapienza in Rome; Lawrence Busch, from Lancaster University; Neal Fortin, from Michigan State University; Ken Hatt, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria; Willi Meyers, from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI); Aysen Tanyeri-Abur, from Northeastern University, Boston; Angela Barusi, from the Emilia-Romagna region; Damià Serrano, from the University of Barcelona’s CETT, and Jordi Tresserras, from the University of Barcelona.
Also taking part in the meeting on behalf of the UOC are the Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning, Josep Maria Duart; Jessica Duncan, from the Food Systems and Society department, and the department’s Academic Director, Xavier Medina.
The meeting is to be held this week just as the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned of growing uncertainty over food, something that will only increase with the economic crisis. The institution has also urged authorities to step up monitoring of pork production in light of the appearance of new respiratory diseases.
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