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Going hungry in the UK: our ‘food desert’ problem

Wed 6 March

online

For many people in the UK a healthy and sustainable diet is simply out of reach. This is in part due to food deserts; neighbourhoods where it’s very hard to find affordable fresh fruit and vegetables due to poverty, poor public transport and a lack of big supermarkets.

What is it about food supply chains and retail in the UK that has caused this uneven distribution of cheaper, healthier food? Should access to healthy, sustainable food be a right?

This on-line panel event will look at how our food system works and why it serves some of our least privileged citizens so poorly.

Panellists:
Chair: Dr Jagjit Singh Srai, Director of Research, and Head, Centre for International Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Professor Carol Wagstaff, Research Dean for Agriculture, Food and Health, University of Reading.

Dr Megan Blake, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield.

Cost: free