4th International Food & Society Conference: Sustainable and Inclusive Food Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

The existing scholarship on sustainable food systems is plethoric, but a consensual and stable definition of a sustainable food system is challenging to reach, given the complexity of the concept of food system itself, as well as the diversity of stakeholders involved. Social movements advocating for sustainable food systems have become some of the most pivotal and exciting movements of our time yet theorising the scope and substance of sustainable food systems remain a challenge for academia. The seminal attempt of developing a set of holistic and qualitative sustainability indicators by Bell and Morse in 2000, while holding some merit, remains an incomplete experiment. Recent event such as the Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted tensions in the global food system, especially on the fragility of the global food supply chain as well as the impact of climate change. These two major issues call for urgent scientific investigation and constitute priority research themes for our upcoming conference in the following terms:

• Theme 1: Sustainable Food Supply Chain
• Theme 2: Environment & Climate Change
• Theme 3: Food Security
• Theme 4: Food Sovereignty
• Theme 5: Food Inclusivity
• Theme 6: Other Food Sustainability or Inclusivity – Related Themes

HOW TO SUBMIT

Send a 300-word abstract, including a maximum of 5 keywords to the following email address: foodandsocietyconference2023 [at] gmail.com 

​Mention the following information in the right sequence: Author(s)’full names, affiliation, and corresponding author. 

Use Time New Roman font, size 12 (title in bold and in size 14).

Submission deadline: 30 September 2023

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

All presented papers shall have an opportunity for publication, upon acceptance of full paper draft submission, either in the Journal of Ethnic and Diversity Studies at the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), or as a book chapter of an edited volume published by the National University of Malaysia Press. 

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