About the Event
Recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy may lead to progress in the building of sustainable food systems in Europe, but other actors are also driving this progress. Initiatives lead by civil society, non-governmental, local and private organisations are coordinating action on the ground and responding to increased demands for more sustainable food, reduced food waste, and local and fair production that respects both the environment and animal wellbeing.
Europe urgently needs food policies that reflect these demands. This conference will bring together key actors in the transition to a fair and sustainable food and agriculture system to discuss the way forward.
Speakers:
- Maria José Ilhéu (Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis)
- Alexandra Azevedo (Quercus)
- Cecília Delgado (Alimentar, Cidades Sustentáveis, CICS.NOVA – NOVA FCSH)
- André Antunes (Chão Rico)
- Denis Hickel (Quinta do Alecrim)
Programme
14.00 – Welcome tea and registration
14.20 – Introduction of the program and participants
14.50 – The Common Agricultural Policy: origins, limits and current challenges
Discussion and video presentation followed by discussion in groups
Presentation of the results
16.00 – Local responses to the challenges of sustainable food
Local solutions and products
16.30 – Innovation and challenges of food systems: examples from international experiences
Discussion and video presentation followed by discussion in groups
Presentation of the results
17.40 – 18.00 – “Wrap-up” and conclusions
Registration
Attendance to this event is free, please register your place via the form found here.
Please find the Facebook event page (in Portuguese) for this event here.
The language of this conference will be Portuguese.
Dr Colin Sage – Senior Lecturer in Geography at UCC with research interests in food systems, environmental policy and civic initiatives for social change. He is the author of Environment and Food (2012) and co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability (2017), Food Transgressions: Making sense of contemporary food politics (2014) and Strategies for Sustainable Development. Colin is honorary Visiting Professor on the Food Studies program at the American University, Rome as well as at the University of Gastronomic Sciences near Turin, Italy, and has just completed a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Tasmania. He is strongly committed to public engagement and is Chair of the Cork Food Policy Council which he co-founded in 2013.
Dr Christina Grasseni – Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Her research interests lie broadly in economic, political and visual anthropology, focusing especially upon skilled visions and ecologies of belonging. She is the author of Beyond Alternative Food Networks (2013) which analysed Italy’s solidarity economy networks as ethnographic models of grassroots transition to sustainable consumption and food sovereignty. Her most recent book, The Heritage Arena (2017) unravels the political agency of heritage cheese in the reinvention of local economies and ecology in the Alps. Cristina currently leads a major European Research Council project, Food citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities which examines the premises and consequences of collective forms of food production, distribution and consumption in three European cities.
Dr. Oliver Moore – has a PhD in the sociology of farming and food and writes in the field of organics, direct selling and consumer-producer relations. He is a contributor to the Irish Examiner where he writes a weekly column on organic food and farming. A member of the Irish Food Writers Guild he also contributes to Food and Wine magazine, and to Organic Matters magazine. Dr. Moore is Communications Manager with ARC2020, an EU agri-food and rural NGO based in Paris and also maintains a lively and informative 
Regina Sexton – a food historian, food writer, broadcaster and cook. Her research interests include food and identity, food and tradition and food in the Irish country house. She has published widely at academic and popular levels. Her publications include A Little History of Irish Food (Gill and Macmillan, 1998) and Ireland’s Traditional Foods (Teagasc, 1997). At University College Cork, she lectures in the area of food history with the School of History, the Food Industry Training Unit and Adult Continuing Education. Her research interests encompass food and culinary history, food preservation, food and identity, ’traditional‘ food cultures, and constructed and ‘invented‘ food traditions. Regina is secretary of the Agricultural History Society of Ireland.