Welcome to Foodlands!
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​​​​In this weekly Substack newsletter, we're travelling through Europe and talking to experts worldwide to share stories from people trying to improve life in our food system. Subscribe today if you care about where your food comes from and how it impacts what life looks like for us and everything else on our delicious planet!
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Why should I give a fig?​
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Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are threatening our resilience and natural heritage around the world. Our food system is the biggest driver of this dangerous spiral — from reducing agricultural productivity and worsening the impacts of increasing natural disasters, to stripping places of the nature that defines them.
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At the same time, we’re all navigating a world of changing climates, technologies and expectations, whether as consumers or producers. And our food system sits at the centre of exciting solutions and recipes for the future, not just dystopian challenges.
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Join us as we chew over these issues with some of the people closest to them.​​​
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Our Perspective
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Foodlands is a free publication from Taskscape, knowledge exchange partner for the H2020 FRAMEwork Project. This newsletter is editorially independent, giving space to a wide range of perspectives. But it’s inspired by our funding project’s ethos, which involved breaking down siloes, building shared trust and taking attempts at farming with nature seriously (not just viewing rewilding as a silver bullet).
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Gather round the table
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Foodlands goes out out FRAMEwork's 500+ subscribers, and provides a legacy home for experiential content captured on the the project - we hope you join us on this journey! We’re interested in everyone’s thoughts on how we can improve our relationship with nature, starting with what we eat and how we produce it.
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Authors:
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Author
Annie Flynn | Associate, Taskscape.
Annie has worked on several cultural heritage and food system projects with Taskscape.
She has a masters in English Literature from Oxford University.
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Author & Interviewer
Theo Simmons | Creator, Taskscape MD
Theo has over a decade on science and culture projects with Taskscape
and a bachelors in English literature from Oxford University.
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Contributing Additional Interviews:
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Alexandra Georges-Picot | Associate, Taskscape.
Alexandra is a journalist with an MPhil in Agricultural History from Oxford University,
which looked at the experience of French farmers post-WW2.
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Jarumi Kato Huerta | Young Ecosystem Services Specialists (YESS)
Jarumi is an Ecosystem services specialist with a PhD from the University
of Trento, integrating environmental justice and nature-based solutions in urban planning.
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Miguel Inacio | YESS
Miguel Inácio is affiliated with Mykolas Romeris University and Klaipeda University,
specializing in environmental management and public administration.
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Roxanne Lorilla | YESS
Dr. Roxanne Suzette Lorilla is a researcher at the National Observatory
of Athens. Her work centers on ecosystem service indicators, mapping and assessment.
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Marcia Arredondo Rivera | YESS
Marcia Arredondo Rivera is a researcher at Wageningen Economic Research,
focusing on biodiversity, environmental governance, and sustainable agriculture.
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Kiên Pham | YESS
Kiên Pham is a doctoral candidate at Université Gustave Eiffel, researching
ecological planning, leading YESS’s engagement with global science-policy platforms.
