This is a recurring event: View all events in the series “Food Thinkers”
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Speaker: Dr Stuart Gillespie, author and consultant
Drawing on his recent book, Stuart will shine a light on the historical evolution of the global food system – from colonial times, through to the last half-century of progressive corporate capture. He will unpack the ways in which growing market and financial power of a handful of companies has been used to leverage political and epistemic power to lock in their dominance. Moving to what can be done to alter the status quo, he will draw on the growing body of evidence and experience from around the world to show how things can be turned around and how a better food system, with people and planet at its heart, can be built.
The talk will be followed by an online Q&A session.
Dr Stuart Gillespie has four decades of experience in food, nutrition and health policy, programming and research since his first position as nutrition coordinator in a project in southern India (1984-86). After acquiring a PhD in Human Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1988, he spent four years with the World Health Organisation in Geneva, two years with UNICEF in India and four years as a freelance consultant. He joined the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in 1999, where he led several initiatives, including a consortium on the double burden of malnutrition, the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL), Transform Nutrition, the Stories of Change initiative and a flagship of the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) programme. He has around 200 publications including 10 books.
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