Oxford Martin School Future of Food Programme

19/05/2022

Huge congratulations to LEAP and the Oxford Museum of Natural History for their 2022 Partnership of the Year Award for 'Meat the Future: A partnership to feed minds and bodies' at the Museums and Heritage Awards! 🏅🎉

The exhibition is open until the 5th of June, 2022 so there's still time to catch it!

At last night’s glittering Museums + Heritage Awards ceremony, LEAP and the Oxford Museum of Natural History were over the moon to win the 2022 Partnership of the Year Award for Meat the Future: A partnership to feed minds and bodies.

29/04/2021

In our conversation with social anthropologist Elena Lazos Chavero (National University of Mexico), we discuss how her research interests were formed around rainforest conservation, food systems and indigenous rights in Veracruz, Mexico. Elena exp...

26/04/2021

Register now for Oxford Martin School's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday May 05, 2021 at 4:00 pm BST.

13/04/2021

On the 12 May BST Prof Helena Hamerow will be discussing some of the results from the feedsax project. Register here

Register now for Oxford Martin School's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday May 12, 2021 at 4:00 pm BST.

08/04/2021

In this conversation with environmental geographer Jamie Lorimer, we discuss different ways of conceptualizing scale; how ideas of scalability, globalization, and homogenization have shaped food and other systems; and how the tiniest of actors, mi...

18/03/2021

What role can seaweed and different technologies play in building a resilient food system? What are the potential tradeoffs when scaling these technologies? In our conversation with Sahil Shah, co-founder of Sustainable Seaweed, we examine how liv...

11/03/2021

Dr Kelly Reed is an archaeobotanist with interests in food systems, agricultural development and cultural adaptations to environmental change in the past. She is currently the programme manager for the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and the Wellcome Trust-funded Livestock, Environment...

02/03/2021

A population-level study in shows that regular meat consumption might be associated with risk of many diseases that we haven’t previously considered. explains more on our blog https://www.leap.ox.ac.uk/article/its-not-just-cancer-regular-meat-consumption-is-associated-with-a-wide-range-of-common-disea

Results from our latest population-level study show that regular meat consumption might be associated with the risk of many diseases that we haven’t previously considered.

23/02/2021

Funded by the ISGlobal Severo Ochoa Strategic Programme, ISGlobal in collaboration with the Center on Climate Change and Planetary Health (LSHTM) and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), is hosting the series of 5 weekly webinars: “Expanding the scope of research in Planetary He...

17/02/2021

Register now for Oxford Martin School's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday February 24, 2021 at 4:00 pm GMT.

26/01/2021

This post is written by Christina O’Sullivan, who is the Campaign & Communications Manager at Feedback, where she manages the ‘Fishy Business’ campaign. Christina has an MSc in Food Policy from the Centre for Food Policy, City University. She has worked at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and...

19/01/2021

Register now for Oxford Martin School's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday March 10, 2021 at 4:00 pm GMT.