Guest speaker: Prof Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy @ City, University of London

The event will be held in SOAS - but Oxford students are encouraged to attend the livestream in Oxford (SoGE) - which will be followed by a discussion led by John Ingram.

'Sustainable Diets for all: academic pie-in-the-sky or ecological public health inevitability'

Abstract: In this lecture, Tim Lang will consider whether the evidence for re-calibrating what we mean by a good diet and good food is an example of how there can be a yawning gap between what science suggests ought to be the case, and what the food system and people's eating habits can deliver. Or is reality slowly but inexorably forcing changes into the food system, whether consumers like it or not? The lecture will review current state of thinking, evidence and policy realities on this pressing issue. It will suggest that sustainable diets is fast becoming a test case for whether the world's policy-makers take a food systems approach seriously.

The livestream will be followed with a discussion and activity with John Ingram - http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/jingram.html

The event at Oxford will also be Oxford-IFSTAL End-of-Year Holiday Social! Expect holiday themed drinks and nibbles. It will be great to see IFSTAL participants among the attendees.

Email ifstal-oxford@eci.ox.ac.uk for more information