Between Sept-Dec 2019, the Man Food team undertook a scoping project for some new research in the Maasai Mara, in collaboration with colleagues at the Technical University of Kenya. We looked at how local and indigenous knowledges and practices were responding to climate uncertainty, and marking a shift from traditional livestock-based pastoralism to alternative food…

Things have been a little quiet on here, as the Man Food team has taken some time to work on other projects and to do more background stuff (developing new partnerships, applying for further funding, writing up, etc.). We’ve presented findings of the project at a number of conferences and seminars, and had some really…

Project lead Emma Roe has written a blog for Global Food Security (UK cross-government programme on food security research) website, you can read it here 

Man Food was based on the ‘becoming an ecological citizen’ methodology, which seeks to connect humans and nonhumans (in this instance food animals and environments) through embodied engagements rather than purely intellectual ones. You can read more about it in the summary sheet below, or in a longer academic paper by Emma Roe and Michael Buser…