Professor Tony Farrell Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Sept 21, 2015
Samantha Gambling and Susanna Klassen, M.Sc. students at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, were invited participants in the ‘Eating City’ international food systems workshop this past August in Paris, France.
The 2015 Eating City Summer Campus brought together 42 young people from 34 different countries and five continents who are all working in or studying some aspect related to food: researchers, professionals working in public and private sectors, farmers, and community leaders.
The objective of the workshop was to build participants’ capacity for leading sustainable food systems change in the 21st century through sharing experiences and knowledge from their respective areas of the world.
As the only participants from Canada, Sam and Susanna shared their experiences in various aspects of the food system, including their research and scholarship on food sovereignty and agricultural sustainability that is conducted as a part of the Integrated Studies program in Land and Food Systems. Alongside urban agriculture activists, food policy council representatives, producers, and engineers, the two discussed the urgent food systems challenges we face today, and synthesized solutions to reflect the diversity of the group and the priorities of youth.
The workshop culminated in the co-creation of a declaration describing our shared vision for a better food system. Please feel free to read and sign the declaration to support this shared vision.