Food Security Archives

Heat Waves and Our Food System

Heat Waves are effects of climate change. Food System activities generate large amounts of GhG emissions and have a huge...

26/08/2022

Panic buying and empty shelves

The anxiety of a citywide lockdown due to COVID has driven the population into another round of panic buying, leaving...

02/03/2022

COVID19 Price Hikes: call for food security in Hong Kong

Interview discussing Covid19 price hikes. I share my views on the vulnerability of our urban food system, the opportunity to...

10/02/2022

Food Waste in Asian Cities Singapore & Hong Kong

Food waste is a global issue, but for Asian cities like Singapore and Hong Kong, the majority of the waste...

16/03/2021

Our Dystopic Food System

Our dystopic food system produces both both hunger and excess, a logic so contradictory that seems only possible in dystopic...

17/02/2021

Rethinking living with urban agriculture

In every crisis there is an opportunity, and now is the time to rethink what living could mean if we...

11/08/2020

Hunger Crisis

COVID19 is deepening the hunger crisis. According to Oxfam’s latest report, 12,000 people per day will die from hunger caused...

17/07/2020

Live Like It’s Doomsday 我們日用的飲食, 怎樣交給我們？

Pushing my trolley around the supermarkets’ empty shelves a few months ago – I couldn’t help but replay the scene...

05/05/2020

Urban Resilience, local and seasonal

Sourcing local and seasonal has become the response to the disruptions seen in our food supply chain. More than just...

21/04/2020

Food shortage in time of COVID

The food shortage we experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the vulnerabilities of our food system. In Hong Kong, we...

02/04/2020

The New Asia

So proud to see Breadline featured alongside other innovative projects selected to represent the New Asia in Tatler’s launch issue....

09/03/2020

The Apocalyptic Feast

What would we eat after the apocalypse? What future foods would be available and in what forms? In this playful...

09/11/2019

Food rescue for sustainability on RTHK 日常8點半

The future of food is tied to the future of our cities. In this interview on RTHK, I framed the...

30/10/2019

Food to the Rescue with Noreen Mir

In this interview with Noreen Mir, we chatted about my latest work Breadline – what it is, how it works...

18/07/2019

浸大研發「救食」平台聯網收剩麵包派基層

Breadline makes its debut! This is the first crowdsourcing food rescue web application in Hong Kong that connects donors with...

15/07/2019

It’s Food. Not Waste

In my talks, I have often spoken of the benefits of food donation or food rescue. In this video, I...

24/03/2019

The Future of Food and the City: Security, Sustainability or Resilience?

Hong Kong and Singapore are often considered twin cities on the global stage – it is similar in terms of...

08/03/2019

Cultivating a better Hong Kong through Urban Farming

My view is that urban agriculture is not a thing of the past, many cities in the world are experimenting...

01/03/2019

Food Security & Resilience Hackathon

What did you say? A hackathon on food security and resilience? How could I not jump at the opportunity to...

10/11/2018

譚迪詩談糧食供應問題

An opportunity to discuss the state of Hong Kong’s urban food system. How do we begin to build a stronger,...

06/03/2018

City University Creative Media Colloquium

Speaking to a packed room of students at City University was a great way to kick start 2018! Introducing students...

16/01/2018

Hong Kong Academy

As part of the Interdisciplinary Unit of their IB curriculum, this group of Grade 7s from Hong Kong Academy spent...

04/12/2017

Consuming Nature

The Zurich University of the Arts hosted a talk series on the topic of Ecologies: Matters of Coexistence for their...

19/09/2017

Food’s Future Summit 2017

A one-day event that brought together practitioners and entrepreneurs who are keen to change the way we eat. My panel...

12/08/2017

Food’s Future – 5 Questions with Dr. Daisy Tam

Ahead of the Food Future Summit, I was asked about my hopes and fears for the future. Issues of overpopulation,...

12/08/2017

Putting the Crowd to Work at MIT

This has been a long-awaited workshop. Taking place in the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, this seminar...

03/04/2017

HK now imports nearly every single thing it eats

After my TedX talk on Hong Kong’s Food Security, many were shocked to learn how vulnerable Hong Kong’s food system...

16/11/2016

How Secure is Food? Tedx Wanchai 2016

An opportunity to speak to an audience of 1200 at the Academy of Performing Arts – the largest Tedx event...

29/10/2016

譚迪詩：「看不見」的城市糧食安全危機

In this opinion piece (Initium), I was invited to write about my research on Hong Kong’s food system. Framing the...

31/07/2016

Curbing Food Waste with Technology

As part of the month long event aimed at using technology to tackle food waste in the F&B sector in...

22/07/2016

Topic: Food Security