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Confirmed Keynote Speaker:
Confirmed Keynote Speaker:
Professor Rosemary Green (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Professor Rosemary Green (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
will be speaking on
Food and Planetary Health
My research focuses on the links between diets, the environment and human health, and I also have an interest in developing new methods and models to study these relationships. I sit within the Nutrition Group in the Department of Population Health. I am also a member of the management committees for the LSHTM Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH).
I currently work on the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) programme, funded by the Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health programme to explore relationships between food systems, the environment and health in India, South Africa and the UK. I also work on the GCRF South Asia Nitrogen Hub, researching links between nitrogen flows and human health through food, water and air pollution, the AMPHoRA project researching actions to reduce air pollution from agriculture in the UK through dietary change, and the FACE-Africa project exploring agricultural adaptations to climate change in The Gambia.
I am the co-PI (with Professor Andy Haines) of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission, which aims to find pathways to a healthy zero-carbon future and communicate them to national and regional decision-makers around the world. In 2020 I was a member of the scientific panel for the UK Citizens Assembly on Climate Change.
Panel Speakers
Professor Lisa Jack
Professor Lisa Jack
Lisa Jack is Professor of Accounting in the Faculty of Business and Law, and also former President of the British Accounting and Finance Association (2015-2020), a learned society for academics based in the UK. She is a qualified accountant and teacher, as well as having a PhD in Accounting. Before becoming an academic, she worked as an auditor and then as a teacher, including in an agricultural college where her interest in the food industry was consolidated.
She is one of the few accounting researchers to investigate the agri-food industry. Her work considers the effects of accounting and performance measurement practices on the industry, and on society more widely. In particular, she examines fraud in the food and drink industry, and has recently completed a report for the Food Standards Agency in the UK on measuring the cost of food crime. She has also led a successful project, on the growing costs and other problems associated with retail returns in from online purchases. This work has brought her into contact with major retailers in Europe and is continuing with a new study into the cost of food waste using the same model. Lisa is the author of over 60 publications for both academia and the profession, including the book ‘Benchmarking for food and farming: creating sustainable change
Mark Hobson
Mark Hobson
Mark studied Agricultural Science(Bsc) and Farm Management(Msc) before working as an Agricultural Adviser for the Ministry of Agriculture in the South East of England. He lived in Camphill Communities in Germany, USA and the UK for over 20 years, working with children and adults with learning difficulties and managing the community gardens. Marl also has experience as a class teacher in Germany, run weekly gardening sessions for the Stourbridge Waldorf School and managed and taught gardening at Quinton Primary school in Birmingham. At present, he lives on a small holding near Chichester and practice regenerative gardening as well as giving talks to local allotment groups, gardening societies and Transition town events. He is passionate about the impact of the soil microbiome on plant, human and planetary health, and view food as medicine.
Jo Coleman
Jo Coleman
Jo Colman is the Head of Sales and Marketing at Summerdown. After an earlier career in charity, politics and ice-cream where Jo worked with another Hampshire B Corp, Jude's ice cream, Jo, joined the family business in 2017. Summerdown grows, harvests and distills the rare Black Mitcham peppermint alongside other herbs and crops on their farm based in Malshanger, just outside Basingstoke. The peppermint oil they distill is the star ingredient in their range of award-winning chocolates, teas and treats which you can find in some of the top food halls, delis and farm shops up and down the UK and globally.
Jo, who is founder Sir Michael Colman's grandson, shares the family ethos that the family are merely custodians of the land and are on a mission to leave the land in better condition then when they started farming it.
We are The Peppermint People - We grow harvest and distil our signature Black Mitcham peppermint on our farm in Hampshire - and have been doing so for over 25 years. Its refined distinctive taste and aroma inspires our wonderfully refreshing range of chocolates teas and treats.
At Summerdown we believe in farming for the future so we’re always thinking about our impact on the environment and how we can maintain a thriving sustainable ecosystem. The underlying aim of our business is to be regenerative and we strive to make business decisions that actively engage the restoration of the environment and reduce our negative impact on it.
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