Media Archives – HKFoodWorks

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

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

The Story of Breadline

The story of breadline is about food rescue and what happens to food when it can no longer be sold...

10/07/2021

Technology for Good

How do you design technology for good? Breadline is not only a webapp that collects surplus food for the poor,...

25/03/2021

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

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 good not the best

Having been asked to reflect on my journey so far, I tried to distil the guiding principle of my research...

04/03/2020

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

Breadline HK food rescue application on RTHK

An opportunity to discuss the step-by-step logistical issues of food rescue and my web application Breadline on RTHK Radio 1...

05/10/2019

Tatler Eco Heroes – innovative ideas in sustainability

Breadline has been chosen by Tatler as one of the five innovative ideas on sustainability in Hong Kong, and thanks...

02/08/2019

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

A Zero Waste Journey

A wonderful occasion to discuss LIVE on air on the effects of food waste in the city. My position has...

30/05/2018

Food Waste Recycling

A morning ramble on RTHK’s BackChat programme to share my thoughts on food waste recycling. I’m calling on industries to...

11/05/2018

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

Hong Kong Zero-Waste Champions on South China Morning Post

Featured as one of six women leaders of Hong Kong’s “zero-waste” movement. I spoke to Lauren James about my research...

03/03/2018

Partners in Slovak!

I gave an interview in English for the Solvak journal Kapital which published an issue on waste earlier this year...

08/02/2018

Fake Food

Catfish instead of Grouper, Wagyu instead of Kobe ...what next? Talking about fake food on RTHK Backchat. I think traceability,...

29/01/2018

Tis the season to be… sustainable

The festive season is a time of celebration, and unfortunately also a time of excess. As Christmas draws near, Laurie...

16/12/2017

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

Zero Heroes – HK’s Most Inspiring Zero Waste Kings & Queens

Featured in Green Queen as one of the Zero Heroes, I talked to Jenny Star Lor about the beginnings of...

09/06/2017

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

Habits of Eating Out

According to a recent survey, a third of Hong Kong’s population eat out every day. In this episode of RTHK’s...

24/08/2016

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

Eating Habits

An interview by the Dutch newspaper Trouw on the Hong Kong’s eating habits and sustainability. Cultural behaviours and trends affect...

28/12/2014

The Edible Wall

As part of the Knowledge Transfer Project “Greener Living – micro urban farming and turning waste into resource”, I started...

19/02/2014

In a Grain of Rice

I was invited to chair the session called Food for Thought at Asia Society’s event “In a grain of Rice:...

17/01/2014

Lost Food: Food, Knowledge, Culture

“Lost Food: Food, Knowledge, Culture” was one of the earliest event I organised at Hong Kong Baptist University. I invited...

06/12/2012

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