Past Events

Trade and the Sustainability Challenge for Global Food Governance - Sept. 22

Presented by Jennifer Clapp

Jennifer Clapp is a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. She has published widely on the global governance of problems that arise at the intersection of the global economy, the environment, and food security. Her most recent books include Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012), Food (Polity, 2012) and Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (co-edited with Doris Fuchs, MIT Press, 2009).

Agri-Food Corporations: An informal discussion - Sept. 23, 2016

An informal discussion by Jennifer Clapp.

Mindful Eating in the Home: The Vibrant Materiality of Food - Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 - St. John's campus

Presented by Dr. Rhona Richman Kenneally PhD (Architecture) Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts Concordia University

Food Futures NL: A Research Symposium - Saturday, May 9, 2015 - St. John's campus

On Saturday May 9, FARM (Food Advocacy Research @ Memorial) hosted a research symposium to take stock of what we know and what we don’t know about NL food systems. We discussed past, present and future research in the province and explored possibilities for funding further research and knowledge mobilization on food issues in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Future of Food Roundtable – October 22, 2014

The first FARM event, supported by Memorial’s Public Engagement Framework, featured speakers from various areas of NL’s food system who shared their own vision of what our food system will be or should look like by the year 2025. Participants included chefs Todd Perrin of Mallard Cottage and Andrea Maunder of Bacalao, farmers Evan Murray and Mary Lester, food security educator Kristie Jameson, and graduate student Chloe Poitevin of the Too Big to Ignore project (small scale fisheries). They spoke to a large appreciative and informed audience at Pippy Park’s North Bank Lodge.