Political Economy Approaches to Food Regimes

By Sophie Van Hullen|February 16, 2018|Conferences, Talks and Seminars|0 comments

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

Inequality and Complexity in Access to Food

By Sophie Van Hullen|January 13, 2017|Conferences|0 comments

FNHD at the DSA Annual Conferences 2016 On Wednesday 14th September 2016 during the Development Studies Association conference held at the University of Oxford, Dr. Deborah Johnston (SOAS, University of London), in collaboration with Nazia Mintz-Habib (University of Cambridge) and Sam Mardell (London International Development Centre) organised a panel on “Inequality and complexity in access to food“. The variety of ways that food can be acquired have been studied by