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𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞: 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 (𝐫𝐞)v𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

🗣️ In-person session @ RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
📅 1 - 4 Sep 2026
🏫 Royal Geographical Society, London
🥦 Sponsored by Food Geographies Research Group (FGRG)

Details here: jonas.house/food-on-the-...

Nieuwe culinaire trend in Japan: berenvlees op het menu

Nieuwe culinaire trend in Japan: berenvlees op het menu

Still a couple of weeks left to apply for this PhD position!

PhD - Meat replacement and edibility formations in Southeast Asia (278716) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD - Meat replacement and edibility formations in Southeast Asia (278716), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, May 9, 2025

📣 New PhD vacancy on edibility and meat replacement in Vietnam! 📣

Interested in food, edibility, dietary change, and alternative proteins? We are looking for a PhD candidate to join the new REPLACE project, exploring meat replacement in Asia 🥦🥜🥩

Details here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Insect protein startup Ÿnsect files for insolvency The move will enable the embattled French startup, which has raised more than $600m to date, to sell for parts.

One of the major European insect producers has filed for insolvency - from @sifted.eu

sifted.eu/articles/yns...

Reassessing the sustainability promise of cultured meat: a critical review with new data perspectives There are currently over 170 companies in the field of cultured meat (CM) which have attracted over US$3 Billion in investments since 2019. The CM industry owes much of this success to the many cla...

Interesting paper outlining some of the key issues facing cultured meat

doi.org/10.1080/1040...

Willem R. Boterman on LinkedIn: Call for papers Bram van Vulpen and I are organizing a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on political geographies of food. We…

Please consider sending in an abstract for our panel at the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference on the political geographies of food!

Global Food History Empires of Disgust. Volume 11, Issue 1 of Global Food History

I am so delighted to share the publication of the first special issue I've managed as an editor at Global Food History! Please welcome "Empires of Disgust," edited and introduced by the excellent @carlacevasco.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/1...

Ah I see, curious what clear Haraway is like! I'm generally quite sympathetic, despite the occasional patches of complete bafflement

Interesting paper about cultured meat bans. Argues that these bans - based on the idea that cultured meat threatens traditional / gastronomic products - do not make sense either legally or practically

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We're hiring! Join us as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges . Lead impactful research on healthy, sustainable diets. Apply by 19th Feb 2025. Salary: £42,632 - £60,321. More info: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a... #ResearchJobs #FoodPolicy #Health

JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6

Gentle reminder about this CfP, deadline next week!

.#FoodSystems researchers ahoy!
You are most welcome to take part in the 1st Nordic-Baltic Food Systems Conference & Policy Forum in Helsinki May 26-28.5

Due to several requests we decided to extend the Dl for CfP until 31.1.2025

Join us and spread the word!

nordicagriresearch.org/conference-c...

'One of the most common ways for a country’s cuisine to enter another country is with ...migrants or refugees, two groups who find selling food a quick and relatively easy way to make money. They focus on easy, crowd-pleasing dishes...' amp.scroll.in/magazine/107... #foodstudies #foodhistory

The strange future of lab-grown meat involves quail, crocodile, and woolly mammoth Australian biotech startup Vow has created the first cell-meat factory and is focusing on 'weird meat' to achieve viable scale.

Australian startup Vow is manufacturing cultivated quail (sold in Singapore & Hong Kong) in a 15,000L bioreactor, w/ a 20,000L reactor coming online soon

The company will be able to produce ~100 tons of product annually, likely the largest volume in the industry

www.fastcompany.com/91232012/the...

Jonas House on LinkedIn: Call for papers Call for papers: 𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳𝗳-𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘂? 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱’ 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳…

CfP | 𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳𝗳-𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘂? 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱’ 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 (𝗶𝗻)𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 - ESA RN05 Conference, 26-29 Aug '25, Prague

What is ‘food’, how does this arise/change? We seek papers on things becoming food + shifting boundaries of (in)edibility. Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/yhnf2p99

MS Word is Using You to Train AI How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...