RIHN 15th International Symposium was held on January 13th – 16th, 2021. A total of 23 presentations, including 3 keynote speeches from Dr. Arnim Wiek (Arizona State University), Dr. Giorgos Kallis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Dr. Michael Carolan (Colorado State University) were given via Zoom (476 participants, 33 countries/regions in total), and discussions were actively conducted via Slack (305 registered participants, 48 countries/regions in total).

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Day 1

• Day 1 full

• Keynote Address
  Overcoming the Problem Bias – Researching and Learning Sustainable Food Economy Solutions
  Arnim Wiek
  (Arizona State University, USA)

Session 1 Regional and Regenerative Foodsheds

• Designing the Sustainable Foodshed of Japan: Insights from Ecological
  Footprint Modeling and Local Food System Mapping
  TSUCHIYA Kazuaki
  (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  

• The Bounty of Enough: (De)Constructing the Global Industrial Food Complex through Narratives of Scarcity
  Oliver Taherzadeh
  (RIHN)

• Designing Biodiverse and Resilient Farming Systems: Experiences from Latin America
  Clara Ines Nicholls
  (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Our Collective Future: Building Sustainable Agrifood Systems and Resilient Rural Communities. Lessons from the US and Japan
  TANAKA Keiko
  (University of Kentucky, USA)

Day 2

• Day 2 full

• Keynote Address
  Limits, Degrowth and Environmental Justice
  Giorgos Kallis
  (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Session 2 Food Futures, Transdisciplinary Processes, and Politics

• Using Gaming to Develop Public Capacities for Anticipatory Governance
  Joost Vervoort
  (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

• Commodity, Commons, Public Good or Human Right. Normative Food Narratives Shape Future Food Transitions
  Jose Luis Vivero Pol
  (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

• Grappling at Food Policy in Kyoto: Experiences and Future Prospects
  AKITSU Motoki
  (Kyoto University, Japan)

• Evaluating Futures for Food Systems Change: From Imagination to Transformation
  Astrid Mangnus
  (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

• Constructing Practice-oriented Participatory Policy for Sustainable Everyday Urban Food Futures in Bangkok
  Kanang Kantamaturapoj
  (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Day 3

• Day 3 full

Session 3 Food Alternatives in the Present

• Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East
  Petr Jehlička
  (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)

• Consumption and Everyday Life: How Prescriptions Inform Our Understanding of Healthy and Sustainable Food
  Marlyne Sahakian
  (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

• Legumes' Role Post-COVID-19: Reorienting the Focus of Policy on Legumebased Food and Feed System
  Bálint Balázs
  (Environmental Social Science Research Group, Hungary)

Practitioner Roundtable

• Kyoto Organic Action (KOA): A Cooperative Attempt to Establish an Independent Distribution System for Local Organic Produce
  SUZUKI Kentaro
  (Kyoto Organic Action, Japan)

• Realizing Gender Justice through Agroecology – Lessons from Women’s Collective Farming Efforts in India
  Ashlesha Khadse
  (Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology Center, India)

• Climbing Mount Improbable: The Beginnings of a Post-growth Food Narrative in the UK
  Chris Smaje
  (“A Small Farm Future”, England)

Day 4

• Day 4 full

• Keynote Address
  Food Journeys: Encounters that Engender Empathy across Difference
  Michael Carolan
  (Colorado State University, USA)

Session 4 Sufficiency and Cultural Change

• Willingly Sliding down the Slope: Narratives and Games for a more Sustainable Food Culture
  Ilan Chabay
  (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany)

• The Cultural Dimensions of Sustainable Agriculture
  Daniel Niles (RIHN)
  and ABE Ken-ichi (RIHN)

• Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to Work, Nature, and Community
  Ashley Colby
  (Rizoma Field School, Uruguay)

• Pahom and the Everlasting Plate – Stories as Bearers of Alternative Food Visions
  Rajat Chaudhuri
  (Fiction writer and Activist)