Food Ethics Council

We have brought leading food industry figures together for a panel discussion at Oxford University’s major conference on Food Security and Environmental Change, on 3rd April.

On the panel will be Lucy Neville-Rolfe CMG, Tesco’s Corporate and Legal Affairs Director, David Croft, Director of Conformance and Sustainability at Cadbury Schweppes, Nick Robins, who heads HSBC’s Climate Change Centre, and Helen Browning OBE, who runs Eastbrook Farm and is Food and Farming Director of the Soil Association. Helen chairs the Food Ethics Council and David is a member.

The panel will discuss how the food industry is responding to global environmental change, including climate change and water stress. What is the sector doing to mitigate problems and to adapt to changing conditions? Is business doing enough? Is the sector even heading in the right direction? Where do the responsibilities of retailers, manufacturers, farmers and investors start and stop?

Questions will be put to the panel by the Food Ethics Council’s Tom MacMillan, chairing, and from the floor. If you have questions you think Tom should ask, please let him know. To attend the event or find out more about the conference, which runs from 2nd-4th April and promises to be a landmark in thinking on the environment and food security, please click here.