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Speaker: Professor Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University
Professor Kevin Morgan will highlight key food policy issues from his new book - Serving the Public. His book addresses the challenges of public food provisioning in three very different public food systems, drawing on evidence from the UK, Sweden and the US. After providing a short summary of his book, Kevin will draw out 2 key food policy issues. Firstly, the scope and limits of public food procurement. Kevin will argue that procurement policy will fail unless it is integrated with policies that support the production and consumption of sustainable food. Secondly, he highlights the rise of the Good Food Movement in the UK and its pivotal role in promoting major food policy innovations, such as the Good Food Nation Act in Scotland and Universal Free School Meals in state-funded primary schools in Scotland, Wales and London.
The talk will be followed by an online Q&A session.
Kevin Morgan is Professor of Governance and Development in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. He has been actively involved as a researcher and a campaigner for good food policies in and beyond the UK. His current food research includes a project on school food reform in the UK under the UKRI programme on Health Inequalities in the Food System and a project on the transformation of public food systems in Sweden, a project led by Lund University and funded by Vinnova, the Swedish Innovation Agency. Kevin is a member of the School Meals Coalition, the aim of which is to ensure that every child in the world has access to a healthy and nutritious meal at school by 2030.
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