• Sunday 6 April, 3pm
• Augustine Hall, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Tickets £14 (Incl. £1.50 booking fee)

How can we fix a broken food system?

In his new book, Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet, nutrition and food policy expert Dr Stuart Gillespie reveals how the system we once relied upon for global nutrition has warped into the very thing making us sick, and maps a way towards a new system that gives us hope for a future of global health and justice.

Following a short talk drawing on more than 40 years of working in food policy and international nutrition, Stuart is joined by Professor Iain Wilkinson, leader of the University of Kent’s ‘Right To Food’ initiative, to discuss the intricate web of historical, economic and political factors that have led us to this point of crisis and consider how we can nourish both ourselves and the planet.

Stuart Gillespie has been fighting to transform our dysfunctional food system for the past forty years. Stuart worked with a range of UN agencies across the world, before joining the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1999. Here he founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security, the Transform Nutrition research consortium, a flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health programme and the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions in public food and nutrition policy. Stuart’s newsletter, Food Fight Files, tackles the political and commercial drivers of food injustice and malnutrition and what can and should be done about them.

Iain Wilkinson is Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Kent, where he leads the University’s flagship civic missions on the Right of Food and Sanctuary at Kent. He also oversees some of the University of Kent’s teach-out operations. He is also a Professor of Sociology, and in this capacity is perhaps best known for his contributions to studies of social suffering and his explorations of the interrelationship between the acquisition of social understanding and practices of humanitarian social care.