Consumer Behavior and Food Science Innovations for Optimal Nutrition — Sackler Conference, 26 March 2014

Bruce Cogill, Programme Leader Nutrition and Marketing will present 'Dietary Diversity through Biodiversity in Food Systems' at the Sackler Institute of Nutrition Science Conference -  a program of the New York Academy of Sciences. The conference will take place at Academy of Sciences on March 26th.

Innovations in food and agriculture have the potential to develop products to decrease the global environmental footprint, optimize nutrition, and meet agricultural challenges and consumer needs of the 21st Century.

As consumer perceptions of food and agricultural technology evolve, so does the social unacceptability of food risks related to public health and the environment.

This conference will explore how consumer behaviour can be analyzed and utilized to advance healthy and sustainable nutrition, discussing current perceptions of sweet, savoury, fat, the benefits and risks of food technology's impact on optimal nutrition from an industry and consumer's perspectives, and strategies such as food labelling to inform consumer choices, and healthy shelf foods.

Jessica Fanzo, Assistant Professor in Paediatrics at Columbia University’s Institute of Human Nutrition and Department of Paediatrics, in New York, and a member of Bioversity International Inc, US Board of Trustees will also be one of the speakers. 

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This research area contributes to the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH).