The 2018 City Food Policy Symposium – Connecting people with food policy

The aim of the 2018 City Food Policy Symposium is to learn more about how gathering and translating evidence of lived experience of food-related problems can help make food policy more effective in delivering its goals. It will explore how gathering evidence of lived experiences of food challenges – how citizens and communities experience, explain and respond to them – can inform more effective, equitable and empowering policy solutions.

The morning session will include short “taster” presentations by policy makers, academics and NGOs concerned with different aspects of food of examples where they have listened to people and where they have involved them in defining problems or crafting solutions.

The afternoon session will be made up of 2.5-3 hour workshops led by the policy, NGOs, programme and academic community. They will be designed to provide learning opportunities for how to gather and translate the evidence of lived experience. A cross-cutting theme for all the workshops will be processes through which the evidence gathered of lived experience can be used to meaningfully improve decision-making.

The output of the symposium will be a report bringing together a shared understanding of the value of gathering evidence of lived experiences and how this evidence can be most effectively translated into transformative action.

This event is genourously supported by the Worshipful Company of Cooks.