Food Durham Annual Gathering- 29 September 2016

The second Annual Gathering of Food Durham was at Bishop Auckland Town Hall on Thursday 29 September 2016. The topic for this year’s gathering was Food and Health and featured presentations from Gill O’Neill, Acting Director of Public Health for County Durham, Dr Margi Lennartsson from Garden Organic/ Growing Health and Dr Martin Caraher of the Centre for Food Policy at City University in London.

Food Durham: “The last 12 months- stepping up”  Dr Liz Charles

The Challenge of Obesity and the role of sustainable healthy food Gill O’Neill, Acting Director of Public Health

Growing Health Dr Margi Lennartsson, Garden Organic/ Growing Health

Sustainable Healthy Food: Can we have both? Presentation from Dr Martin Caraher, Prof. of Food & Health Policy, Centre for Food Policy (City University, London). Martin also sent a video of his presentation which you can watch on the Durham Community Action YouTube channel.