Dear colleagues,

 

This is a gentle reminder about the Conference on Democratizing Food Governance that The American University of Rome is organizing on 14 October 2016 in collaboration with University College Cork, University of Naples Federico II and the University of Vermont.   

 

Please see below short description and website for further details. Thank you for sharing this information with interested students and colleagues.

 

Some scholars believe that local food systems do not represent a serious threat to the globalization of food chains and may even be consistent with it.  Others see them as encapsulating the potential for a radical transformation of the global food system, being not just the result of a commodity-based agriculture sector but rather expressions of processes of change and new forms of politics with regard to sustainability and consumption.

 

The Conference intends to promote a reflection on the new forms of partnership and civic engagement emerging around food as well as on the creation of public policy spaces at different scales where various types of actors may negotiate, deliberate and make decisions with the goal of enhancing the sustainable and democratic character of the food system.

 

Key note speakers:  Frank Baber, University of California and Terry Marsden, Cardiff University. 

 

For further information please visit www.aur.edu/foodgovernance or email [log in to unmask]

 

With best wishes,

 

Maria Grazia Quieti, Ph.D.

Dean of Graduate Studies

Director, MA in Food Studies

The American University of Rome

Via Pietro Roselli No.4

Rome 00153

Tel. +390658330919

www.aur.edu/gradschool

 

 

For five decades AUR has been preparing students to live and work across cultures.

The American University of Rome is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education

 

 

 



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