Food Security and Food Justice Video Presentation by Megan Blake

The University of Sheffield recently engaged a new form of teaching for level 1 students. Known broadly as Achieve More, all first year students (nearly 2000) in the Faculty of Social Science were given a programme of talks on key issues and undertake some investigative challenges that would be completed in within the week.  There are 8 groups of students (with 7 in each group), who are working on projects with me concerning the food landscape of Sheffield.  I also gave one of the talks. The video of it is available here.

Food Security and Food Justice Achieve More talk–Megan Blake

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Presentation…Decent Helpings

The following is the text for my talk opening the panel discussion at the Decent Helpings event held on 7 November 2014.

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Food Justice: Opportunities to get involved, Opportunities to Learn

I’ve been quite busy over the course of the last few months trying to make practical some of the issues that underpin many of the motives behind GeoFoodie.  Some of these activities have been quite ambitious while others have brought me into contact with a number of like minded people or have enabled me to learn ever more about the issues that are embedded in a concern for Food Justice. In this post I define what I think of as food justice and highlight some of those activities I’ve been involved in over the past year or so.  Continue reading

We are what we eat: Third Sector Café food event, Sheffield UK

We are what we eat: Storify link to the Third Sector Café food event, Sheffield UK

I was recently invited to be the guest host for a Food themed event held by two friends who run The Third Sector CaféContinue reading