1st Call for Papers and Posters: Futures for Food, 6-7 June 2013 Turku, Finland
The 15th International Conference of the Finland Futures Research Centre and the Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku will be organised in co-operation with the MTT Agrifood Research Finland.
What could the futures of food look like? How will consumers need and value food? What are the environmental impacts of food system? What kinds of trade-offs and synergies will there be between the increasing demand for food and bioenergy? Where will our food come from? What methods and theoretical approaches we can use to study future foodways?
These and many other interesting questions will be considered in the cross-disciplinary Futures for Food conference:
- Changing foodways - Cross-disciplinary approaches to food and eating
- Future scenarios for food
- Food consumption trends
- Futures of food systems - production, processing and consumption of food
- Futures research methodology in the study of the future of food
- Theoretical approaches in the study of the future of food
- Environmental impacts of the food system
- Sustainable development and food
- Food and bioenergy
- Innovative R&D processes within the food sector
- Non-food product development
www.futuresconference.fi/2013
Deadline for the abstract submission: January 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2013
Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be submit to the conference coordinator at futuresconference2013@utu.fi.