Guest speaker

Associate Professor Elin Röös
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Energy and Technology; Division of Agricultural Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Elin’s research focuses on sustainable food production and sustainable land use from systems from a broad and interdisciplinary system perspective.
Elin conducts research and teaches about sustainable food production and sustainable land use from many different angles. These include assessment of the environmental impact of different foods using life cycle assessment (LCA), to calculating the climate impact and land use associated with different types of diets and comparing environmental impacts of different farming and food systems. She also works in many interdisciplinary projects where she looks at the economic and information policy instruments for more sustainable dietary patterns and how more sustainable and healthy food ingredients can be produced and processed.She also works at the Centre for Organic Food and Farming (EPOK) with the research synthesis and research communication.

Adam Arnesson
Organic farmer and biosphere steward at Jannelunds Farm, central Sweden

Organic farmer from Sweden running a diverse agro-ecological based farm. Recently made a transformation moving from animal farming towards producing more plant-based food (for example oats, ancient grains, peas, beans, vegetables). This has increased the number of people fed per hectare while the greenhouse gas intensity has decreased, and the farm is much more resilient.

Adam’s main job as a farmer lies in taking care of thier soil and every species it is shared with, producing eco system services and of course producing food that is healthy for us, making sure that this can be done for many generations to come.

Chair

Professor Jennie Macdiarmid
Professor in Sustainable Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen

Jennie is a Professor of Sustainable Nutrition and Health and the Interim Director of interdisciplinary challenge Health, Nutrition and Well-being. She gained a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Surrey, during which she spent a year working at the CSIRO research laboratories in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Food Research (Norwich) and the University of Dundee (Psychology dept) investigating chocolate and eating behaviours. In 1997 she completed her PhD at the University of Leeds (Psychology), after which she spent 18 months working for the International Obesity Task Force in Aberdeen. Before joining the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen in 2006, she worked in department of environmental and occupational health in the medical school. Her research focuses on food and nutrition security and the impact of diets on climate change and land use. This includes understanding how to change dietary habits to be healthier and more environmentally sustainable.

Chair

Sue Davies
Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy, WHICH

Sue Davies is Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy at Which?. She leads Which?’s work on food, trade, sustainability and wider consumer rights and consumer product safety policy. She was the Chair of the European Food Safety Authority from 2012-2016 and has been awarded an MBE in recognition of her work on food safety.

VIEW ELIN RÖÖS AND ADAM ARNESSON’S TALK (45 MINS CPD)