Social nutrition has once again become topical with the threat of famine in Yemen, South Sudan and Syria and the work of the Global Rights Compliance and the World Peace Foundation on accountability for mass starvation.[1] A social nutrition approach could be one way of providing evidence on the causes of mass starvation. One problem, however, is that social nutrition no longer really exists as an approach in emergencies. In
On January 19, 2018 the SOAS Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Cluster organises a one-day workshop that brings together topics in contemporary food regime studies examined from a political economy perspective. Topics include inequality and food security, the state and food sovereignty, food regimes and the politics of conflict and financialisation of food and were discussed in four panels covering 11 papers. A full descriptions of the panels
The Summer School Food and Nutrition in Development 2017 has taken place over three weeks in August at SOAS. It has been jointly co convened by Deborah Johnston, Fiorella Picchioni and Lorena Lombardozzi, and involved various academics from the department of Economics and the Food Studies Centre. It has offered a unique programme built on the SOAS Economics Department research and teaching expertise in the political economy of food and nutrition. The
Jane Harrigan, Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London and author of ‘The Political Economy of Arab Food Sovereignty‘, William Sitwell, author of ‘Eggs or Anarchy‘, and Bee Wilson, author of ‘First Bite‘ discussed: ‘Food – From Bread Riots to Obesity‘ on BBC4, 27 June 2016. Presenter Andrew Marr guides his listeners through the many links between food and politics through history; from World War II to the Arab Spring. The programme