Water, food, environment and sustainability : What has this to do with nutrition?
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 20 March 2015
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Room:
- 217
- UQ Location:
- Human Movement Studies Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Sandrine Kingston-Ducrot
- Phone:
- 56912
- Email:
- s.ducrot@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- We have made great gains in improvements to foods and nutrition, with excellent health outcomes across the world. But can this continue? Can the food supply be sustained in an environment of globalisation, technology, free trade and mass movement of food manufacturing and processing to offshore locations? Sunday 22 March is World Water Day. Food waste is a water and environmental issue. This seminar aims to bring into focus the need for everyone to be alert to the impacts that the food they eat has on world stocks, and the forecast impact that climate change has on food security around the world. It will link sustainability to the Australian Dietary Guidelines. It is a call to action: think globally and act locally so that the food supply can be sustained into the future.
Presenter:
Professor Capra received her BSc(Hons) and Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics from Sydney University, her MSocSc from the University of Birmingham and her PhD from the University of Queensland. After more than 15 years in professional practice in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand, Prof Capra entered academia full time.
Professor Capra's research interests focus on nutrition and dietetics practice, food and nutrition policy and quality outcomes for food and nutrition services in a variety of settings. Much of her work focuses on the development of tools to use in practice and developing systems for quality improvements and outcomes measurements of service delivery. This includes nutrition service delivery models, best practice, tools development, measurement in dietetics and outcomes research in dietetics. This is not limited to clinical fields, but includes the other domains of policy and public health and service delivery. Professor Capra is currently a principal investigator on 'Implementing best practice nutrition and hydration support in residential aged care' which is part of the Department of Health and Ageing 'Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care' national program.
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- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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