Field of Enquiry: 10 days to explore the food system through the 2000m2 lens

The Climate Change Fund, The Scottish Government and Whitmuir Community Farm invite you to join the Field of Enquiry team to explore the food system through the 2000m2 lens. When you divide all the arable land on our planet by the people, we each have 2000m2.

Over 10 Saturdays, topic by topic, Field of Enquiry will examine the current state of affairs, make sense of the pressures on the system and, as enquirers, we will frame the questions we should ask our scientists, farmers and politicians to answer if we are to do things differently.

The project seeks to unearth the role of soil in our ecology and question how best to graze the grass and farm protein. It will unpack the impact of our industrialised food system on our daily bread, our nutrition and health; grapple with the big numbers and small actions on carbon emissions and food waste; and assess our impact on our fellow species, whether they be walking, swimming or flying, and imagine how to better use our land.

The project's Scientific Advisory Group, involving some of our finest scientists, nutritionists, ecologists, advisors and farmers, informs our Field of Enquiry. They will be presented with the project findings and questions in March 2017.

Together with PFLA and Nick Underdown, the James Hutton Institute will take part in the Saturday 3 December 2016 session, titled "Meat from grain: pigs, fish and poultry" and which will discuss the role and impact of pigs and poultry in our global food; alternative protein sources, welfare, antibiotics and ethical meat consumption.