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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
