Professor Tim Lang, a hill farmer and academic who has spent a lifetime studying the connections between the relationship between food, health, environment and culture is to deliver a public lecture at 麻豆传媒高清版 at the Eric Sunderland Lecture Theatre on Friday 17th听November at 5.30 pm. All are welcome to attend.
The annual public lecture in association with the United Nations Association will review the gap between evidence, policy and reality in current food systems.
Tim Lang, Professor Emeritus of Food Policy, at the University of London鈥檚 Centre for Food Policy, School of Health Sciences, City, will sketch the long journey from Britain鈥檚 Second World War ambition to produce more food and thus resolve the hunger problem to today鈥檚 complex array of challenges at the global level.
Prof Tim Lang says:
鈥淭here is a worrying gap between food production, consumption and both public and environmental health. There鈥檚 a pandemic of diet-related disease despite the noble aspirations of the 1940s visionaries. The UK has mostly either ducked or fudged these challenges so far. But there are pockets of good practice and recognition that the late 20th听century agri-food system鈥檚 years are probably over.鈥
In the lecture, I will consider what might break this policy lock-in. Public engagement is almost certainly needed. The question is whether this can come by choice or whether events might constrain the options.鈥
Hill farming in Lancashire in the 1970s formed Tim Lang鈥檚 interest in the relationship between food, health, environment and culture, an area he鈥檚 worked on ever since. His work has bridged education, science and governance, working either with or for the public sector and civil society interests at global, EU, national and local and regional levels.
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