Hunger is the leading cause of death in the world and in 2022 approximately 9.2 % (735 million people) of the world’s population found themselves in a state of chronic hunger. And this number has only increased since 2019. At the same time, worldwide obesity, malnutrition and food insecurity increase. These trends coincide with diminishing availability of land, increasing soil and biodiversity degradation and more frequent extreme weather events. How can we turn around the trend? What forces are used that affect our habits and how is food connected to other Sustainable development goals?

Inspirational speakers are:

• Anna Stubbendorff (Nutrition Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine): What is a sustainable diet in relation to health and climate? Anna Stubbendorff — Lund University
• Heather Anne Swanson (Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark): Transnational Ecologies of Eating: Food Sustainability Beyond Europe. Heather Anne Swanson — Aarhus University (au.dk)
• Naja Yndal-Olsen (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Science): How the Danish agricultural lobby organizations’ resist food system change and how vegan activists increasingly seek to unveil lobby power rather than focusing on the diets of individual consumers. Naja Yndal-Olsen — Lund University

Programme

9:00-10:15    Introduction to the subject and presentations by inspirational speakers

10:15-10:30  Break and fika

10:30-11:45  Case discussions

11:45-12:00  Wrap-up

Deadline to register is 23rd of February. Registration to the workshop is available here: Agenda 2030 Graduate School - Workshop on Zero hunger | Sustainability Forum (lu.se). 

Organised by

The Agenda 2030 Graduate School and Graduate School in Asian Studies

Agenda 2030 Graduate School | Sustainability Forum (lu.se)

Graduate School in Asian Studies | Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies (lu.se)

There will be a limited number of seats available to each workshop, so it is on a first come first serve basis. The workshops are open to PhD students and researchers from all disciplines at Lund University who have an interest in the different subjects. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Ylva van Meeningen (ylva [dot] van_meeningen [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (ylva[dot]van_meeningen[at]cec[dot]lu[dot]se)).