This Food for Thought on-line panel event took place on Thursday 16 November from 17:30 to 18:30.
The event’s focus was wheat; why it’s the perfect crop for the capitalist era, what this reveals about our food system and how our reliance on modern wheat might make us more vulnerable to climate change.
Chaired by Dr Nadia Radzman, a plant biologist from the Sainsbury Lab at Cambridge University, interested in improving the food system through utilization of forgotten crops.
Our speakers were:
Dr Phil Howell, Head of Breeding, NIAB, Cambridge
Dr Alexa Bellows, Research Fellow for Co-Health Benefits of Sustainable Food Systems, University of Edinburgh
Professor Shailaja Fennell, Professor of Regional Transformation and Economic Security in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Professor Martin Jones, Emeritus George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Cambridge
For more useful information about this event, please see:
www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/news/event-report-breaking-bread-whats-wrong-wheat