Food Security for Equitable Futures

Expert Interview Series: Dr Alula Pankhurst on Food Insecurity in Ethiopia
2022-06-27 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Online via MS Teams
Dr Alula Pankhurst is a social anthropologist, and the Country Director for Young Lives Ethiopia since 2009. His role involves coordinating Young Lives research in Ethiopia and leading on topics including urban relocation, child work, early marriage and violence against children. In addition, he has been involved in policy dialogue on child marriage, FGM, and early childhood and youth development. Dr Pankhurst is a founding member of the Child Research and Practice Forum, a Board member of the Ethiopia Heritage Trust, a former board member of the Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, Social Workers and Anthropologists, and the former Board Chair of the Forum for Social Studies. He also serves on the Independent Council of Economic Advisors to the Ethiopian government and the Society of Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Addis Ababa University.
In this interview with Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann, the Principal Investigator on the Food Security for Equitable Futures Project, Dr Pankhurst offers an empirically grounded account of recent food insecurity trends in Ethiopia. Prof. Pankhurst highlights how the climate crisis has accelerated food insecurity. Dr Pankhurst offers an insightful description of the complexity of food insecurity in Ethiopia and how it is cumulatively worsened by factors such as conflict, drought, changes in land holding, and global developments, most recently including the ongoing war in Ukraine. Dr Pankhurst also discusses some recent findings from his research, such as the link between anxiety and mental distress with food insecurity among households. Dr Pankhurst’s future research entails studying the trends in and consequences of intergenerational malnutrition in Ethiopia and understanding regional variations of food insecurity and their links to larger structural issues such as drought, pests (such as locust infestations), land holding patterns and mental health.

Expert Interview Series: Dr Eduardo Zegarra on Food Insecurity in Peru
2022-06-06 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Online via MS Teams
In this video, the second in our Expert Interview Series, Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann, lead investigator on the Food Security for Equitable Futures, interviews Dr Eduardo Zegarra Méndez about his views on food insecurity in Peru. Dr Zegarra is an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, specializing in rural development and natural resource management. Dr Zegarra has been working as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) in Lima, Peru, since 2004.
In this interview, Dr Zegarra shares insights about his experience studying the trends in food insecurity in Peru and how gaps in state policy can be plugged to address food insecurity and improve agricultural practices and rural development. Dr Zegarra also shares insights gained from his work with state institutions and how policies can be designed and implemented to address food insecurity in the short term and the long term whilst negotiating recurring crises of the global system.

Food Insecurity & Reproductive Justice at ReproFest!
2022-04-29 09:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Food Security for Equitable Futures project PI Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann will be presenting her latest work from the project at this year’s ReproFest in Preston on 29th of April. The event runs all day, but Dr. Fledderjohann will be speaking at 11:30am. She will be talking about the range of ways that food insecurity is a barrier to Reproductive Justice globally.
This is a FREE one day DROP IN ANYTIME event about reproductive justice, health and rights prioritising the experience of people who may be treated unfairly in reproductive decision-making. You can find out more and register through Eventbrite at this link.

Expert Interview Series: Dr. Lam Van Phong on Food Insecurity in Vietnam
2022-04-15 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Online via MS Teams
In this video, the first in our Expert Interview Series, Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann, lead investigator on the Food Security for Equitable Futures, interviews Dr. Lam Van Phong about his views on food insecurity in Vietnam. Dr. Lam Van is a medical doctor in the Nutrition and Dietics Department at Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital in Vietnam.
In this interview, Dr. Lam Van shares his insights about his experience working as a frontline healthcare worker during the Covid-19 pandemic, with focus on the implications of the pandemic for nutrition and food insecurity. He also shares his personal experiences with food insecurity during the pandemic, and reflects on next steps for addressing food insecurity in Vietnam.

Project Newsletter Issue 3
2022-03-18
Our third issue of the project newsletter is out! In this issue, you can meet our newest team member; learn about the presentations and research results from the project including findings on education and food insecurity in India, publication of a National Centre for Research Methods Wayfinder Guide on equitable research partnerships, and new research examining food insecurity as a Reproductive Justice Issue. You can click on the link below to access the newsletter:
Project Newsletter Issue 3 March 2022

NCRM Wayfinder Guide Published
2022-02-11
In 2021, project PI Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann served as a breakout room facilitator for Research at a Distance: Changing Approaches & Equitable Partnerships event. This event was organized by Dr. Adrian Healy (a fellow Future Leaders Fellow), in collaboration with several other fellows. The event focused on adapting research in the Global South under Covid constraints with an eye on equity. The event led to co-development of an National Centre for Research Methods Wayfinder guide to equitable research relations in and after Covid-19 in collaboration with international stakeholders.
This guide was published in 2022 as a collaboration between Adrian Healy, Artwell Kadungure, Constance Smith, Erin McFee, Eve Nakebembe, Isabel Jones, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Katie McQuaid, Kirsty Le Doare, Sana Contractor and Sabrina Rashid as part of a series produced from the Changing Research Methods for Covid-19 Research Project. It is freely available for download.

Researching Inequalities: Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann's CASEI Interview by Dr Michael Lambert
2021-11-02
Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann (Twitter: @JFledderjohann1), Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University was recently interviewed by Dr Michael Lambert (Twitter: @GrandCamouflage), the Research and Engagement Lead for the Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities (CASEI).
CASEI (Twitter: @CaseiLancaster), based at Lancaster University Sociology Department, is an inter-disciplinary Centre researching on causes and solutions to a wide range of inequalities.
In this interview, Dr Fledderjohann talks about Food Security for Equitable Futures project (Twitter: @Food_Equity) and other ventures she is involved with. She also explains her work on measurement, social causes and consequences of inequalities.
You can watch this interview video on our YouTube channel.

Press Article in Big Issue North
2021-10-19
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann’s article, that she drafted along with Dr Amy Clair and Dr Bran Knowles, is published in the Big Issue North – Big Issue North is a charity based news-magazine that promotes socially conscious media content.
The article entitled ‘Why Don’t We Just… make policy that fulfils human rights?‘, highlights how the social problems observed during the pandemic in fact stem from long-standing structural inequalities linked to erosion of social protection policies over the past several decades.
Hope you enjoy this read!

Project Newsletter Issue 2
2021-10-05
The second issue of the newsletter is out. In this issue, you can find progress of the project, and other activities project team has been involved with. It also lists some milestones that have been achieved. Please click on the link below to access it:
Project Newsletter Issue2 _ October 2021 _ Food Security For Equitable Futures

Our team presenting talks at BSPS conference
2021-09-14 12:00 - 2021-09-15 16:30 (Europe/Dublin)
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) virtual Conference 14-15 September 2021
Our team has organized food insecurity sessions in the BSPS conference.

Dr Thomas Argaw will be chairing the session on:

Food insecurity: Social & environmental determinants of food & nutrition security – 14th September 12pm – 1pm

Don’t forget to check Dr Thomas Argaw’s talk on:

Sociodemographic gradients in food insecurity in India – 15th September 3.15pm – 4.15pm
Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-society-for-population-studies-virtual-conference-2021-tickets-165899009403

Book Launch Event
2021-07-20 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Launch of the new book ‘A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights? Where next for the UK Post-COVID’, by Drs Amy Clair, Jasmine Fledderjohann, and Bran Knowles, available 25th June through Policy Press.

Register on Eventbrite to attend the Book Launch Event.

Project Launch Workshop
2021-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online via MS Teams
The aim of this workshop is to engage in knowledge exchange with stakeholders to ensure that the project will be well-grounded in local knowledge, and be relevant and useful to stakeholders and policymakers.

'Food Security for Equitable Futures' project launch
2020-10-21 10:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Food Security for Equitable Futures
A UKRI funded project exploring how lives in the Global South are shaped by undernourishment and hunger.
