Bristol and the Southwest Food System Research

Bristol and Bath Science Park on the 1st November, 29th November (2011) and 12th of January 2012.

You are invited to participate in an EU funded modelling of Bristol and the South West's food sector - The CONVERGE project is investigating how we can manage and allocate the earth's resources fairly and make the transition towards a sustainable future. At the core of this research is an exploration of the food system (from soil to post consumer waste) of 3 communities of around 400,000 people. These communities are in India, Iceland and the UK. In the UK Bristol has been selected as the focus for the study – which implies the whole Southwest because a big part of Bristol's food-economy is dependent on food produced beyond the city region, more