Together with a colleague I am organising a section at the ECPR general conference, Montreal 2015 ( http://www.ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=94)
We welcome panel and paper proposals (until 10 November 2014) that are based on the section description below. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me: jessica.duncan@wur.nl
Cross-Disciplinary Issues for Food Policy and Governance: Challenges and Opportunities
Food has proven to be a complex, even wicked, policy issue which encompasses multiple policy domains. The call for a more integrated food policy away from mono-disciplinary focus on agricultural, international development, or health is increasing. Food policy integrates nutrition and public health, agriculture, environment, ethics and social justice, trade, ecology, spatial planning, climate change, water management, and energy and therefore needs the analysis of all policy domains involved, as well as cross-policy domain research. The interconnectedness of relevant policy domains means that food represents a policy challenge as well as…
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