York event examines how to ensure food supplies meet demand
Posted on 3 March 2014
The event at the King’s Manor on 6 March will look at how to ensure food supplies continue to meet future demand. It has been organised by Building up Resilience in Supply Chains (BURNS), a White Rose Universities Consortium collaboration involving the universities of York, Sheffield and Leeds.
The World Bank forecasts that demand for key agricultural commodities in the next five years will outstrip supply due to factors including climate change and volatile pricing. To meet this challenge, the BURNS project seeks to better understand what underpins resilience and sustainability in the international agricultural supply chains.
Producers, Lebi Hudson, Chief Executive Officer of the Rungwe Smallholders Tea Growers Association in Tanzania, and Pauline Jepkorir Boit, from the Eastern Produce Sireet Outgrower Empowerment Programme in Kenya, will join the BURNS academic team, processors, logistics experts, retailers, policy makers and others at the event to discuss the issues around agricultural supply chains.
The BURNS collaboration is led by Professor Bob Doherty, Chair of Marketing, from the York Management School, University of York.
Professor Doherty said: “We are particularly pleased that Lebi Hudson and Pauline Jepkorir Boit are able to join us for the workshops as their experience and input to the discussions will be invaluable in helping us to better understand and begin to theorise the factors that underpin resilient supply chains.”
The White Rose BURNS team also involves Dr Corrado Topi from the Stockholm Environment Institute; Dr Anne Tallontire, Professor William Young and Professor Chee Wong from the University of Leeds; and Professor David Oglethorpe, Dr Severine Saintier and Dr Zoe Ollerenshaw from the University of Sheffield.
The workshop, which is now fully booked, will take place at King’s Manor, University of York on 6 March from 10am to 4pm.
Notes to editors:
- More information on Building up Resilience in Supply Chains (BURNS) at www.whiterose.ac.uk/collaborationfunds/building-up-resilience-in-supply-chains-network-burns/
- More information on the York Management School at the University of York at www.york.ac.uk/management
- The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) is an internationally renowned independent environment and development research institute. It has its headquarters in Stockholm (Sweden) and centres in Estonia, Tanzania, Thailand, UK and the USA. For more about SEI at the University of York, please visit www.york.ac.uk/sei
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