Programme Structure
The programme is organised into five inter-connecting work packages, addressing consumer anxieties about food at a range of geographical scales and at a variety of points along the supply chain from production to consumption. Each work package also attempts to combine an understanding of the political and moral economies of food.
WP1: Global Food Supply and Rising Consumer Demand in China
This work package will investigate consumer perceptions of food safety in China in relation to the 2008 food scare over contaminated infant formula and in the context of increasing concerns about global food insecurity.
WP2: Agri-exports from Brazil
This work package will examine the growing export economies of agri-food producers such as Brazil, focusing on the poultry and aquaculture sectors.
WP3: Food Safety and Consumer Practice
This work package will analyse current research on food safety and the problems involved in `translating´ notions of scientific risk into popular understandings of food safety.
WP4: Consumer Understandings of Risk, Anxiety and Trust
This work package will investigate consumer understandings of risk, anxiety and trust in the context of recent `food scares´ and public health campaigns, based on comparative research in Britain and Sweden.
WP5: Food Manufacture, Retailing and Health
This work package aims to examine how regulatory activity over the salt, fat and sugar content of foods has changed the practices of food manufacturers, retailers and consumers.