Past Event

Food Equity Centre

Community-led innovation for local food system transformation: lessons from Brighton & Hove and nearby

21 May 2025 13:00–14:30

Institute of Development Studies IDS Room 120/121 and online on Zoom

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This seminar will showcase community-led innovations focused on enhancing equity and sustainability in food access in the city of Brighton & Hove. It will examine experiences that emerged in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, focusing on how communities responded to multiple challenges.

Green colour garden with grey tent and yellow flowers
Caption: Rock Farm, 20 June 2024. Photo credit: Lídia Cabral.

The discussion will explore the extent to which these innovations transform local food relations to promote rights, equity and sustainability. Featuring research from the Building Back Better from Below project, the seminar will also include a panel of local innovation champions who will share their insights and strategies while discussing the support needed to strengthen existing innovations and foster new ones.

Speakers

  • Callum Chapman, IDS MA Food & Development graduate
  • Sara Fernee, Very Local Food Hubs
  • Norma Park, IDS MA Food & Development graduate
  • Ronald Ranta, Fitzjohn’s Community Food Project, Lewes

Chairs

Lídia Cabral, Research Fellow, IDS and Food Equity Centre and Santiago Ripoll, Research Fellow, IDS

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