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Transforming Food Systems

How shall we provide safe and nutritious food for all, faced with the challenges of COVID-19, net zero carbon, social inequities and degraded environments, and to meet the ethical expectations of our societies?
Transforming food systems is the theme of the 2022 conference of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE), organised jointly by the School of Social and Political Science and the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security of the University of Edinburgh, and the independent ethical consultancy Edinethics Ltd. 

At the 2021 EurSafe congress in Fribourg the Vonne Lund Prize for best presentation by a (PhD) student was awarded to:

• Martijn van Loon
  PhD candidate, Philosophy Group, Wageningen University & Research
  Paper: The ethics and mindedness of insects
  www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2 (page 218)    
• Emnée Van Den Brandeler
  PhD candidate, University of Basel             
  Paper: The political turn of the animal ethical discourse – the need for a virtue ethical approach
  www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2 (page 185)     

Former EurSafe Executive Board Member Prof Ben Mepham, of the Centre for Applied Bioethics in the School of Biosciences, has been elected to a Fellowship of the Society of Biology, the leading professional body representing the learned and other organisations comprising UK biosciences.