Food 2.0: Sustainable Food Futures - young people's views from Rio and London

这个跨学科项目与来自低收入城市环境的年轻人一起探讨他们如何概念化可持续食品。它通过参与式电影的媒介来做到这一点。在2010年，城市不平等的社会地理是这样的，许多城市青年在贫民窟或非正式的、收入微薄的定居点长大。在伦敦，城市的不平等表现在其他空间模式上，然而，有更多收入低下的人。对食物银行的依赖、缺乏负担得起的新鲜食物、肥胖和营养不良等挑战在这两个城市都很常见，同时，社区花园、社区市场、免费校餐、反对食物沙漠的运动等在这两个城市都存在。在巴西，也有一项创新的新政策，关于适合区域和可持续来源的学校膳食。英国-巴西项目团队（ESRC-DFID Choices项目）之前的工作主要集中在巴西的大规模代表性调查和焦点小组，结果表明巴西人强烈支持公共采购中的可持续采购。在每个城市，该项目都与活跃在当地的社区组织合作，这些组织一直在开发数字媒体或参与式戏剧项目，并与当地往往来自弱势背景的年轻人合作。该项目的目的是a)与接受学校膳食的城市青年一起探索他们如何概念化可持续食品，食品正义和城市食品主权b)通过参与式视频，电影比赛和公共电影放映与青年，公众和政策制定者接触，从而继续建立影响途径c)深化皇家霍洛威两个卓越可持续消费中心之间最近的研究伙伴关系。伦敦大学和巴西里约热内卢大学。d)试验参与式方法，比较研究实践，并为未来的联合研究做准备b里约热内卢和伦敦将提供参与式讲习班，将保罗·弗莱雷的解放式教学法与手机相机拍摄的新技术结合起来。我们会参考过往调查和焦点小组的结果，把结果提交14至18岁的青少年讨论。然后，这些年轻人将被邀请参加电影比赛。b里约热内卢的获奖团队将被邀请参加在伦敦一家电影院放映巴西和英国电影的电影放映，并与政策制定者、社区活动人士和当地政客进行小组讨论。同样，来自伦敦的团队将前往b里约热内卢，在那里展示和讨论他们的电影。虽然无法预测这些年轻的电影制作人将在他们的电影中表达什么，但这些创造性的作品将有助于引发公众对食物正义、可持续食物和城市食物主权的讨论。该项目结合了对该问题的学术、实践和政策视角，并将地方层面的粮食挑战与国际视角联系起来，有望产生理解粮食未来的新方法。

This interdisciplinary project explores with youth from income-poor urban settings how they conceptualise sustainable food. It does this through the medium of participatory film. In Rio, the social geography of urban inequality is such that many urban youths grow up in favelas, or informal, income-poor settlements. In London, urban inequality is expressed in other spatial patterns, nevertheless, there boroughs with more income-poor people. Challenges such as reliance on food banks, lack of availability of affordable fresh food, obesity and malnutrition are common in both cities, while at the same time community gardens, community markets, free school meals, campaigns against food deserts etc. exist in both settings. In Brazil, there is also an innovative new policy on regionally appropriate and sustainably sourced school meals. Previous work by the UK-Brazilian project team (ESRC-DFID Choices project) focused on large scale representative surveys and focus groups in Brazil which showed that Brazilians strongly supported sustainable sourcing in public procurement. In each city, the project works with community organisations active in the local area who have been developing digital media or participatory theatre projects with local youths who are often from disadvantaged backgrounds. The aim of the project is to a) to explore with urban youths in receipt of school meals how they conceptualise sustainable food, food justice and urban food sovereignty b) to engage with the youths, the public and policy makers through participatory video, film competitions and public film screenings, thus continuing to build pathways to impact c) to deepen a recent research partnership between two centres of excellence in sustainable consumption at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). d) to trial participatory methodologies, to compare research practice and prepare future joint researchParticipatory workshops will be offered Rio and London, which combine the emancipatory pedagogy of Paulo Freire with the new technologies of filming on mobile phone cameras. We will draw on previous findings from the surveys and focus groups and present the results to the 14-18 year old youths for discussion. Then the youths will be invited to participate in a film competition. The winning team from Rio will be invited to a film screening showing the Brazilian and UK films in a London cinema and take part in a panel discussion with policy makers, community activists and local politicians. Equally the team from London will travel to Rio to present and discuss their film there. While there is no predicting what the young film-makers will express in their films, these creative pieces will help initiate discussion wit the public about food justice, sustainable food and urban food sovereignty. Combining an academic, a practice and a policy perspective on the issue, and linking the local level food challenges with an international perspective, the project promises to generate new ways of understanding food futures.