Bittersweet Brexit: Where are we heading with our food and farming?
With Charlie Clutterbuck
Chaired by Professor Tim Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London
The Centre for Food Policy’s Food Thinkers series aims to advance the thinking and practice of integrated approaches to food policy.
With Brexit events moving so quickly, this talk will be a moving feast. The context is that UK food and farming could change more now and more quickly than in the last 70 years. Brexit is a moment of food system restructuring.
Charlie’s talk will focus on the role of human labour in farm and food provision, asking: (1) Why did it barely feature in UK politics of food when it is so central to how the food system actually works? (2) What does this say about UK food policy debate? (3) Was the silence about food labour part of what delivered the 2016 Brexit referendum vote? (4) What are the food labour issues which now need to be addressed, whatever happens in Brexit politics? (5) How can we make labour more central to our understanding of the transition to a sustainable food system?
Q&A and discussion will then be opened to the audience.