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"Faith and Food: making the connections"Speaker Biographies:Wendy Tyndale (Conference Chair)Wendy Tyndale is freelance consultant and former Coordinator of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. She has an MA and Bachelor in Philosophy from St. Andrews University and a PGCE from King's College, London. She has spent most of her life working on human rights and development issues largely in Latin America, spending periods living in Peru, Chile and Guatemala. Through the World Faiths Development Dialogue, she focused particularly on the linkage between different faiths and development and in 2003, she published the book Visions of Development: Faith-based Initiatives (Ashgate, 2003). Colin Tudge - Talk: "Feeding people is easy"Colin Tudge will first describe the biological/agricultural principles of feeding people; then discuss why we need a different kind of economy to cope with this; then show why we cannot get the kind of economy we need, for farming or anything else, unless the economy has a very strong moral base. Then he will offer the question to the assembled company - whether a strong moral base also requires a strong religious base. Colin Tudge is a biologist and author whose latest books include:The Secret Life of Trees, Consider the Birds, and Feeding People is Easy. Tim Gorringe - Talk: "Biblical reflections on our food and where it comes from"Originating first in a nomadic, and then in a peasant society the Bible has a great deal to say about food and its production. Tim Gorringe will try and reflect on whether this has any significance in the Tesco age. Tim Gorringe is St Luke's Professor of Theology at the University of Exeter. He is the author of many books, including, Harvest: Food, Farming and the Churches (SPCK, 2006) and is a smallholder. Edlilberto Sena - Talk: "Amazonia feeds Europe and leaves her people poorer: what's going on?"Edilberto Sena is both a Roman Catholic priest - influenced by Liberation Theology - and a campaigner who is seeking to defend Amazonia against land-grabbers, loggers, ranchers and agribusiness multinationals. He is, in particular, well known for his opposition to the Cargill Corporation's construction of a 'port' in the city of Santarem, Para, Brazil for storing and exporting soya for animal feed - soya grown by destroying the rain forest. Edlilberto Sena is also station manager of Rural Radio in Santarem and features in Felicity Lawrence's recent book Eat Your Heart Out (Penguin, 2008). Jan Simmonds - Talk: "Food in the Global South"It's been called the silent tsunami - the global food crisis that is adding to starvation's daily death toll. With 862 million people in the world malnourished, rocketing food prices are pushing millions more into dire poverty. How has this been allowed to happen? How can we contribute to change for which so many people are literally hungry? Jan Simmonds works for Christian Aid as Head of the North and East of England Team. Before joining Christian Aid 11 years ago she was one of Traidcraft's founders and whilst at Traidcraft worked closely with small fair trade businesses in India and Bangladesh helping them to develop their export markets. Jan has also served as a director of Shared Interest, the fair trade bank. |
