UNA Menai Wales: Resilient Food Systems: What’s Our Problem?

From Britain’s WWII ambition to produce more food, addressing hunger and dietary needs, to today’s complex challenges at a global level - the speaker draws on a lifetime of study of the links between food, health, environment and culture to explore the development of our food systems and policy responses.

Professor Tim Lang says: “There is a serious gap between food production, consumption and both public and environmental health. There’s a pandemic of diet-
related disease despite the noble aspirations of the 1940s visionaries.”

This lecture will consider how to break the current policy lock-in and whether this can come by choice or whether events might constrain the options. But public engagement is almost certainly needed. Tim’s work has bridged education, science and governance, working either with or for the public sector and civil society interests at global, EU, national and local and regional levels.