Deadline for submissions: 30 November 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:
The institutional characteristics of the new food innovation ecosystem
Novel forms of food production: Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA), characteristics, social and governance dimensions
CEA as a reconfiguration of rural urban perspectives?
Novel foods: the extent of their adoption and their impact on diets
Consumer responses: vegetarianism, veganism and flexitarianism
Responses of different social movements – environment, animal welfare, food and health, indigenous foods
Alternative proteins, including insects: a new problem for food security or part of the solution?
Plant-based proteins: consumption and production issues in the EU and US
New forms of intellectual property in food and implications for food security
The impact of current innovations for agriculture, farmers, global food chains and local food systems
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 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