Dear Barbara, Thank you for alerting me to this meeting. I watched the webcast over two days and found much of the content very interesting. Your own talk was excellent and I found my self agreeing with so much of the content. It is very interesting to hear how people from different fields perceive the ease or difficulty of getting over a message in another field. For example, the idea that people were more likely to eat a better and more sustainable diet to improve their own health than in response to any worry about the larger and more complex issues of global food sustainability is probably correct but still seemed to underestimate how few people are even concerned about their own health. I really liked the idea of measuring productivity as nutritional quality per hectare rather than total amount or energy per hectare. The talk from Patrick Worms on forestry and using native species was very interesting. It would therefore have been interesting to hear from other areas representing specific food groups. For example, as you may know, my own research interest is in fish. Tim Lang was quite right to say we don't really know enough about this area and to this end I have been talking with Ed Allison, who has links with WorldFish and has recently moved from UEA here in Norwich to Seattle, about areas were there are gaps in the knowledge. One potential benefit of sustainable fish production is that it may not be so dependent on fresh water, unless of course the fish are fed diets produced on land such as soy. Of course we then have the problems associated with marine pollution coming into the complex picture of food sustainability. Although we need to know more about so many aspects of this complex issue I do agree that we cannot wait until we know everything and so the talk from Duncan Williamson suggesting a pragmatic approach was particularly pertinent. It seems to me that governments need to facilitate bottom up approaches to dealing with regional food sustainability but I was unable to get a clear picture of how this would match with the role of multinationals and feeding people living in cities. Coincidentally, I was talking to my brother-in-law about this and he mentioned a talk he had been to that evening about Elinor Ostrom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom> whose economic theories I guess must inform the economists involved in studying food sustainability. Also, do you happen to know how the globe unit is defined. For example is it based on usable land area or total land area? Does it include the sea at all? Thanks once again for your talk and for alerting me to the day. Elizabeth Lund (PhD) Independent Consultant Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Health Tel. +441508488049 Mob. +447841529097 http://www.elizabethlund.co.uk http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3269-3222 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3269-3222> From: "Burlingame, Barbara (ESN)" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "Burlingame, Barbara (ESN)" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:03 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: 12 November seminar - Nutrition and Sustainability - #ESN-GENERAL Dear all, You are invited to a seminar on nutrition and sustainability on 12 November in Rome attend at FAO or join livestream Seminar on Nutrition and Sustainability: A Long-term Vision for Effective Strategies Tuesday 12 November 08:00 to 18:00 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Green Room) Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), along with Bioversity International, the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition, and the governments of Malawi and Flanders are co-organizing a seminar to explore practical approaches and solutions to nutrition and sustainability in Rome, Italy on 12th November 2013. The seminar - Nutrition and Sustainability: A practical approach to integrating climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems, nutrition and health agendas - will be held at FAO headquarters from 8 am to 6 pm. This seminar will bring together around 300 scientists, policymakers, experts, students and practitioners to develop responses to countries' requests about "why?" and "how?" to link nutrition and sustainability, and to discuss the tradeoffs. Provisional agenda is available at http://www.unscn.org/en/nutrition_and_climate_change/nutrition_and_sustainab ility_seminar_12_november.php How can you participate? To be invited to this event, please contact the UNSCN Secretariat at [log in to unmask] by 5 November and share who you are and why you want to attend the Nutrition and Sustainability Seminar. Access to FAO will be restricted to those who have been invited. The seminar will be streamed live in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese: http://www.fao.org/webcast Join the discussion on Twitter with the hashtags #sustfoodsystems and #sustdiets. We welcome your participation. For more information go online to: http://www.unscn.org/en/nutrition_and_climate_change/nutrition_and_sustainab ility_seminar_12_november.php Regards to all, ________________________________________________________ Barbara Burlingame, PhD Deputy Director, Nutrition Division (ESND) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome ITALY Tel: +39-06-570-53728 Email: [log in to unmask] Skype: barbara.burlingame To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1