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CALL FOR PAPERS. Social Science Conference on ‘Novel Foods and Novel Food Production: a Contribution to Sustainability and Food Security?’
Deadline for submissions: 16 December 2022
Papers can be presented in person or online
Conference date: 10 March 2023
The American University of Rome
The Conference focus is on the wave of the so-called disruptive technologies developed by mission-oriented entrepreneurs in the name of sustainability and food security: novel foods. These range from cellular meat, plant-based meat alternatives, microorganism-based and insect-based proteins. Similarly, innovations in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), encompassing a variety of indoor farming systems and vertical farming, aim to free fresh produce production from the risks and rhythms of the natural environment, integrating it into urban life.
Keynote speakers: Prof. John Wilkinson, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (in person)
George Monbiot, Writer, Journalist, Environmental and Political Activist (online)
The themes for contributions include:
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•The institutional characteristics of the new food innovation ecosystem
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•Novel forms of food production: Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA), characteristics, social and governance dimensions
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•CEA as a reconfiguration of rural urban perspectives?
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•Novel foods: the extent of their adoption and their impact on diets
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•Consumer responses: vegetarianism, veganism and flexitarianism
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•Responses of different social movements – environment, animal welfare, food and health
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•Alternative proteins, including insects: a new problem for food security or part of the solution?
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•Plant-based proteins: consumption and production issues in the EU and US
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•New forms of intellectual property in food and implications for food security
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•The impact of current innovations for agriculture, farmers, global food chains and local food systems
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•Current innovations and new axes of global governance.
Deadline for the extended abstracts (800-1,200 words, including introduction, methodology, results, discussion and conclusions) and a short CV: 30 November 16 December 2022.
Send submissions to foodstudies@aur.edu
Notifications of acceptance status will be made by January 2023.
More information on the Conference can be found at https://aur.edu/novelfoods2023
Contact: foodstudies@aur.edu
Maria Grazia Quieti &
Maria Fonte: m.quieti@aur.edu
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Last update: November 2022
