Colin Sage
@envirofood.bsky.social
Independent research scholar based in Portugal. Affiliated Professor Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto. Author, Environment and Food (2012); editor, A Research Agenda for Food Systems (2022). Co-founder, Cork Food Policy Council.
Is agroecology the "solution" to our food systems crises? The latest episode of the Feed podcast discusses the traps of "solutionism" and simple fixes in the food system with @garrettbroad.bsky.social and @envirofood.bsky.social. Listen to the discussion here: buff.ly/c1ETrHS
Finished my week in Trento with a presentation to the School of International Studies on techno-solutionism & novel foods #foodsystems. Thanks to Alice Dal Gobbo (discussant), Louisa Parks (chair) & special thanks to Francesca Forno for making it all happen.
In Trento & just delivered the opening keynote ('Systems thinking through the lens of food') to the residential course for participants of the Growing Green Minds project. Great to work with highly motivated educationalists keen to bring food systems mapping into the classroom #foodsystems
My paper, 'Challenging high-tech solutionism in an era of polycrisis' is featured in FODDER, newsletter of @tabledebates.bsky.social Sign up for a fortnightly round-up of news and research in food systems here: tabledebates.org/fodder #FoodSystems #FoodStudies #Agroecology #NovelFoods
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Novel Foods: A technological pathway to food system transformation? One day symposium 14 February 2025, American University of Rome. Program and registration details (free online): aur.edu/news/novel-f...
Novel Foods: A technological pathway to food system transformation? 14 Feb. 2025
Social science perspectives on plant tissue, cellular agriculture and microorganisms in creating protein alternatives to conventional meat, dairy, and fish products.
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Just watched interview with Tracy Emin as part of BBC World news #100 women series. Realised I had seriously underestimated- like many men I suspect - what an extraordinarily capable, determined & visionary artist she is.
#foodstudies #agroecology #foodsystems #sustainability #RegenerativeAgriculture #novelfoods
Colin Sage@envirofood.bsky.social · 2y agoJust published 'Challenging high tech solutionism in an era of polycrisis: A commentary on claims for novel foods and on building an alternative narrative' Part of a Special section on novel foods, IJSAF. Open access doi.org/10.48416/ijs...
Just published 'Challenging high tech solutionism in an era of polycrisis: A commentary on claims for novel foods and on building an alternative narrative' Part of a Special section on novel foods, IJSAF. Open access doi.org/10.48416/ijs...
The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Considering the contemporary global landscape of interlocking environmental, economic and political challenges - labelled as a polycrisis - the paper takes issue with an influential narrative of techn...
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