A lively discussion and your Q&A with Dee Woods - award-winning cook & food justice campaigner, & co-founder of Granville Community Kitchen
In the UK, millions of people cannot reliably access healthy, sustainable and affordable food. In communities across the country, people are not waiting for the system to change. They are building their own responses through community kitchens, growing projects, food co-ops and campaigns that treat good food as something everyone has a right to.
Molly Anderson opened this series by setting out why justice has to be at the centre of food system transformation. This month we look at what that means in practice. Dee Woods has spent over 25 years working for food justice in communities, through Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn, her campaigning for the right to food, and the Landworkers' Alliance. She will talk about what food justice looks like when communities lead it, and what it takes to sustain.
How do communities create fairer access to good food, and what gets in the way? What can national policy learn from what already works locally? And how do we make sure the people most affected by the food system have a real say in changing it?
About Dee:
Dee Woods is an award-winning cook, community food educator and food justice campaigner with over 25 years' experience working in diverse communities. She is co-founder and director of Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn, which works towards food justice and the right to food through good food, growing and community organising. Dee is Food Justice Policy Coordinator at the Landworkers' Alliance, Chair of Trustees at the Independent Food Aid Network, and a member of the GLA London Food Board and the Food Ethics Council. She co-edited A People's Food Policy, co-founded the African Caribbean Heritage Food Network, and is a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. She represents Western European civil society at the UN Committee on World Food Security, and was named BBC Food and Farming Cook of the Year in 2016.
About Angelina (chair):
Angelina Sanderson Bellamy is Co-founder and Director at Root and Reason, and Professor of Food Systems at UWE Bristol. She has led on numerous projects to improve sustainability, health and equity within the food system, both in the UK and internationally. Angelina co-chairs the Bristol Good Food 2030 Partnership Steering Group and sits on the boards of Food Policy Alliance Cymru, Food Sense Wales, and Cardiff Farmers Market. She has previously worked at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
About this webinar series:
This webinar is part of a monthly series run by Root and Reason which explores the transformation of the UK agri-food system with leading movers and shakers. Expect deep and varied insight from across the sector, including farmers, scientists, policy analysts, community leaders, retailers, politicians, businesses and health professionals.
