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GGE Research Seminar "Deep histories of food systems in eastern Africa and current patterns of food insecurity "
Dr Matthew Hannaford
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Lincoln
Thursday 16 May 2024,
1.00pm-2.00pm, Bennett Lecture Theatre 10
This seminar examines long-term patterns and drivers of continuity and change in eastern African food systems. It points towards considerable dynamism in place-based and regional trends in the integration of new foodstuffs, agricultural commercialization, resistance and transformations in diets, and diversification and specialisation as livelihood strategies—each of which emerged within imbricated contexts of African agency, transoceanic exchanges and colonial incursions. Such historical data provide important deep-time perspectives for interventions to address modern food insecurity, as demonstrated through examples of agricultural value chains, ‘under-utilised’ crops and major infrastructure projects in southeast Africa.
Matthew Hannaford is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests centre around the environmental history and historical climatology of southern and eastern Africa before colonial times, especially human interactions with climate variability and the history of food systems. His research also examines the relevance of historical research for present-day questions of climate adaptation and food security.
Dr Hannaford has been invited by the Centre for Palaeobiology and Biosphere Evolution.
https://le.ac.uk/gge/events/research-seminars
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Leicester, University Road,Leicester, United Kingdom