Food and Nutrition Security Challenges in Humanitarian Situations

Date

Monday 3 July 2017

Time

12:30-13:30 (AEST)

Venues

CSIRO: Black Mountain – Discovery Theatre

Speaker

Prof. Dominique Bounie,  University of Lille, France and McMaster Program @ CSIRO

Synopsis

Prof. Dominique Bounie teaches Food Engineering and Technology at Master level (MSc, MEng) at the University of Lille and his main interest lies in Humanitarian Food Engineering (HFE), an emerging and cross-disciplinary area of research and teaching. HFE intends to identify and answer food-related technical challenges that have to be addressed when tackling food security issues raised before, during and after humanitarian interventions. Prof. Bounie’s approach aims at using unified science-based concepts and solutions that Food Science and Technology might bring to common problems occurring in both disaster-prone and traditionally underdeveloped countries, and in developed countries being newly faced to economic crises (for example in urban areas).

In this seminar, Prof. Bounie will briefly outline some of the different consulting activities, research projects and educational programs that he has led on this topic (food quality management systems, development of new nutritious foods, design of dedicated equipment for the local production of food at intermediate and community levels), for International Agencies, NGOs and private companies in a number of countries. He will then introduce his current work at CSIRO as a McMaster Fellow which will conclude at the end of July. The main objective of this Fellowship is to identify areas of common interest where CSIRO might bring its own expertise and skills on some of these humanitarian issues and to propose mechanisms to align these capabilities onto the current humanitarian agenda (needs and constraints).

 

Biography

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This is a public seminar.

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