Planning for a Sustainable Food System
The food system is very complex and such are the food system sustainability challenges. To ensure more people get access to good food that does not further deplete the earth resources, we must take a holistic approach to the way we produce, distribute and consume food. In celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day, we are going to look at how these challenges can be addressed in practice.
Gastronomy often refers to the art of making food in a certain way from a particular region, while sustainability focuses on making sure we are not wasteful of our natural resources with continual use well into the future without being detrimental to our health or the environment. By the UN’s definition, sustainable gastronomy means cuisine that takes into account where the ingredients are from, how the food is grown and how it gets to our markets and eventually to our plates.If we fail to plan, we plan to fail. So to address the food system sustainability challenges, we need to plan to save our food, and with that our environment, health, and economy.
In celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day on June 19 2023 at 1 pm GMT+1/BST, the webinar on Planning a Sustainable Food System will bring together experts from Industry, academia and policy makers to share insight on sustainable practices, policies and technology innovations that are enabling the delivery of Sustainable Gastronomy. The webinar is is for stakeholders across the food system from farm to fork – food producers (farmers), food processors/manufacturers, food distributors, food retailers, policy makers, and individuals.
In addition, we will be celebrating the participants of the Global AgriFood TechPreneurs Programme 2023.
Agenda:
13:00 – 13:05 – Welcome & Intro
Panel 1:
13:05-13:30 – Lilian Ndungu – Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
13:30-13:55 – Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu -IntelliDigest Ltd
13:55-14:20 – Panel discussion and Q&A
Break – 5 mins
Fireside chat with Global AgriFood TechPreneurs
14:25-14:35 – Global AgriFood TechPreneur Alumni – Mr Olumide Esan
Break – 5 mins
Panel 2:
14:40-15:05 – Tom Fitzpatrick – Craigies farm
15:05-15:30 Chef Pierre Thiam – Terranga
15:30-15:55 – Panel discussion and Q&A
15:55-16:00 Closing Remarks
Facilitators
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Dr Ifeyinwa KanuCEO of IntelliDigestShe holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering with research interest in the use of Artificial Intelligence to optimise Anaerobic Processes.
Dr Kanu loves nature and she is passionate about engineering solutions to address environmental and societal challenges. She is leading IntelliDigest on a mission to empower global food sustainability, eliminate food waste and zero hunger.
Dr Kanu is an Enterprise Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of UK Higher Education.
Dr Kanu is a Champion of the STFC Food Network.
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Lilian NdunguAgriculture| Food Security | Resilience | 2021 Africa Food Systems Leadership Fellow-WUR | Geospatial World’s top 50 Rising Stars 2021 | NASA Food Security Award
Lilian is an Agri-Finance Fellow with an eye for connecting the dots to create impactful outputs. A tenacious and creative champion for agricultural transformation, Lilian is passionate about the use of technology to make work easier. She has 10 years of experience in the design and management of ICT/GEO projects; with proven capability in strategic planning. As the Thematic Lead for Agriculture and Food Security at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Lilian has developed scalable, replicable and sustainable decision-making products and technology models. She sits in several high-level forums and provide technical advisory as well as speaking on EO data driven agricultural transformation to policy and decision makers. Lilian has published technical papers and presented at international conferences (the full profile is available here on Google Scholar.)
In 2016, she received a NASA Excellence Award for contribution towards Agriculture and Food Security Assessments in East and Southern Africa. Recently, she was listed among Geospatial World’s Top 50 Rising Stars in 2021 for contributions towards improving agricultural decision making in the region. Lilian mentors girls in universities through organized forums such as AFRICA GIS and UNOOSA’s Technovation. She has a bachelor’s in ICT, an MSc in in GIS and hoping to complete a Ph.D. in GIS. -
Tom FitzpatrickFarm Manager at Craigies Farm
Tom Fitzpatrick has been interested in food and farming for many years, however as he did not come from a farming background, he perceived it as a sector which was hard to get into.
After studying geology at university, he completed a seasonal job on a mixed farm in England. This position consolidated his love for the food and farming sector, and he later found a permanent position in agriculture.
Tom Fitzpatrick now is the Farm Manager at Craigies Farm, a Pick Your Own Farm in Scotland primarily growing strawberries, raspberries and pumpkins.
