The CULTIVATE project, in the persons of Anna Davies (Trinity College Dublin) and Oona Morrow (Wageningen University), invites contributions to the session “Cultivating Just Community Food Systems through Food Sharing” at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2026.
The session explores how food-sharing initiatives such as community gardens, community kitchens, surplus food redistribution, and seed-saving initiatives are shaped by socio-economic, spatial, and environmental inequalities, and how they may contribute to more just community food systems.
The abstract call is open to theoretical, empirical, and creative contributions (15-minute presentations) engaging with questions, practices, and methods related to:
Art and citizen engagement
Serious Games
Food sharing
Food governance
Food Infrastructure
Food Commons
Food sustainability
Care
Conviviality
Community cooking & eating
Community growing
Surplus Food Redistribution
Agroecological urbanism
Landed Community Kitchens
Communities of food practice
Critical food mapping
Community food imaginaries
Collective food action
Submission
Please submit a 250-word abstract or creative proposal by 20 February 2026 to:
- Oona Morrow, Wageningen University: oona.morrow@wur.nl
- Anna Davies, Trinity College Dublin: daviesa@tcd.ie
Contributions from early-career researchers, practitioners, and scholars working across disciplines and methods are particularly encouraged.
If you want to know more, visit the conference site: Annual International Conference | RGS
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