This summer I will have the pleasure of lecturing on food policy at a summer school hosted in Brescia, Italy. The theme of the school is Food Safety and Food Security in Europe: A multi-level educational perspective.

There are just a few spots left for the course. For more information, check out this Brochure.

It runs from July 6-10, 2015 and covers a diverse but interrelated range of themes including:

• Framing food security
• Food safety
• Determinants of health
• Food waste

It also includes a visit to Expo 2015 in Milan.

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The Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition is a food think tank based in Milan. Their Young Earth Solutions! student contest is open and they are looking for project ideas that make our food system more sustainable.

Deadline: 31st May 2015

Prize: €10,000

See this article from the Food Tank for more details.

Today I gave a Pecha Kucha. A Pecha Kucha is a presentation of 6:20 with a series of 20 slides that change every 20 seconds. It is an unforgiving format that is admittedly probably engaging and potentially energizing for the audience but as a speaker it offers no space to engage with, or respond to, the audience and no room for error in your speech as the slides keep rolling even if you are not quite ready for them to! I get the appeal and the value but for an academic presentation, this is a terrifying format. Indeed, I found it so challenging to frame an academic paper/idea this way that I instead opted to give what amounts to more of a political speech.

I struggled to develop my talk for today, more so than any talk I have given in recent (maybe even distant) memory. I was intimidated by…