Governance to meet Global Challenges

The theme for BSRS2014 is Governance to meet Global Challenges. The event will take place from June 23^rd to July 4^th. Read more

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Bergen Summer Research School 2013

Food as a Global Development Challenge

A basic need, a pleasure, a cultural and religious marker, an ethical, environmental and a health challenge, an economic resource, a manifestation of power, a political battle ground - food shapes all  aspects of our lives. Some of us have too little, others too much, and we deal with and distribute the global food resource in ways that may not be ethically, environmentally, or economically sustainable.

Technological development opens new opportunities for food production, but also redefines what we think of as healthy, edible, good and right. But technology cannot decouple food and nature - all of us, urban or rural, rich or poor, depend on the goods and services that ecosystems provide for our livelihoods. Hence, ecosystem degradation is a global concern, but the technological and economic ability to adapt is not equally distributed.

Food can be a source of conflict, around tables as well as among nations. Globalization processes have consequences for how we solve these various challenges related to food production, distribution, and consumption at all scales and levels. 

Food is a cross-disciplinary research challenge. From nutrition and  medicine to law, from aquaculture to cultural studies, from psychology to comparative politics, research can identify problems, suggest solutions, and create opportunities.

Food as a global development challenge is the crosscutting theme of the BSRS 2013. During two weeks in June 2013, from June 17^th to 29^th, the BSRS will gather an international group of research students and scientists to explore these complex and interlinked challenges in an interdisciplinary atmosphere.

Course descriptions can be found on the BSRS 2013 page.

For the programme of BSRS 2013, click here (pdf).

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