Global Food Governance Conference

This year, the Food Governance Node at the Charles Perkins Centre (The University of Sydney) and the George Institute for Global Health have partnered with the Global Center for Legal Innovation on Food Environments (Georgetown University Law Center) to organise the Global Food Governance Conference.

This conference, to be held online December 14 to 16 2021 from 6am-11am AEDT, will bring together lawyers, policymakers, nutritionists, and health scientists to explore how law, policy, and regulation can help address food system challenges at the local, national, regional, and global levels.

About the conference

Malnutrition, climate change, globalisation, and trade patterns profoundly shape the global food system. These challenges, along with rapid population growth, have compromised the ability of food systems to deliver safe, nutritious, sustainable, and equitable foods, in turn impacting the fulfillment of fundamental human rights.

Through a broad and interdisciplinary approach, the Global Food Governance Conference will consider how legislative, regulatory, and policy regimes impede or facilitate access to safe, nutritious, sustainable, and equitable food. The conference will explore issues such as (1) food security, safety, and sustainability, (2) the promotion of healthier diets, addressing both under and over-nourishment, including diet-related risk factors for non-communicable diseases, (3) equity and social justice in global food systems, including human rights-based approaches, and (4) Indigenous food systems governance.

Hoping to highlight the interrelationships between the main challenges facing the global food system in the 21st century, this conference also aims to create new opportunities for collaborations that promote access to healthy and sustainable food for all.

Confirmed speakers

• Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
• Amandine Garde, Professor of Law, University of Liverpool
• Carlos Monteiro, Professor of Nutrition and Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Registration

• Full Conference Fee (3 days): $100 USD
• Full Single Day Fee: $30 USD
• Discounted Full Conference Fee: $50 USD (Students, civil society members, unwaged, and researchers/academics based in low- and middle-income countries)
• Discounted Single Day Fee: $15 USD (Students, civil society members, unwaged, and researchers/academics based in low- and middle-income countries)

There will also be an option to request a complete fee waiver. This request can be submitted by anyone that identifies as any of the above listed categories. Requests will be determined by the Conference Organizing Committee.

Find out more information on the official Global Food Governance Conference page.

Contact

Should you have questions, please email:

• Margherita Cinà: mmc313@georgetown.edu
• Dr Belinda Reeve, Sydney Law School: belinda.reeve@sydney.edu.au.

The Food Governance Node at the Charles Perkins Centre (The University of Sydney) and the George Institute for Global Health have partnered with the Global Center for Legal Innovation on Food Environments (Georgetown University Law Center) to organise the 2021 Global Food Governance Conference.