Food security or justice concerns the institutional and policy issues of the food system, which shape the opportunities for and obstacles to people’s access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious foods that meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life (McDonald, 2015). This multiplicity of the dimensions of food justice requires ongoing dialogue between academics across disciplines as well as practitioners of different roles in the different ‘streams’ of food production (Herman & Goodman, 2018). Such dialogues are especially pressing in the context of current geopolitical challenges due to the cumulative effects of the disruptions of climate change, the US-China trade conflicts, COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russia-Ukraine War. Initiatives of international cooperation are urgently needed in the face of successive secular crises, yet these crises also exacerbate the polarizing trends of the world community.
It is thus worth studying the opportunities and obstacles to food security and justice in this unprecedented context of multiple geopolitical challenges, under the lens of different academic disciplines, not only economics and science, but also politics as well as ethics.
(The conference is substantially supported by a grant of Inter-institutional Development Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, Project No.: UGC/IIDS14/H02/23.)
Dr Chris Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Dr Wong Muk-yan
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Dr Andy Wong
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Science, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Dr Angelo Leung
Lecturer, Department of Social Science, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
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