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...

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...

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...

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 and...

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 size...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 here...

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...

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...

22/07/2016

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