Food Geographies Research Group conference session sponsorship
For each Annual International Conference, the Food Geographies Research Group (FGRG) aims to sponsor a set of sessions reflecting the diverse range of research interests pursued by members of the FGRG.
We encourage and welcome interesting session proposals that advance the sub-discipline, but priority will be given to sessions that speak directly to the conference theme e.g. inequalities and justice (research focus or methodology).
The Committee will review session proposals and may provide feedback to convenors, if necessary, to align with the theme.
Topics
Topics might include but are not limited to:
- Food justice and everyday inequalities
- Food sovereignty and geographies of food and justice
- Food geography and the just transition
- Climate impacts on agriculture, livelihoods, and food security, especially for marginalised, frontline or indigenous communities
- Spatial politics and ethics of migrant labour engaged in food production
- Decolonial food geographies, including Indigenous, Black, and other marginalised (ecological) knowledges
- Topics related to rights and decolonisation of agriculture
- Topics related to agrarian supply chains and fair trade,
- Geographies of food retail, including supermarket geographies, pricing, digital platforms, and how supply chains deepen inequalities across urban and rural landscapes
- Food deserts and urban and rural planning
- Logistics, distribution, and the infrastructural geographies of inequality
- Health inequalities and nutrition
- Food waste, circular food economy and justice implications
- Inequalities within and beyond the agri-food value chain, including processing, food manufacturing and hidden geographies of food inputs and food materialities
- Superfoods, market manipulation and reinforcing power imbalances
- Borders, conflict, and food insecurity, including geopolitical tensions, border governance, conflict-driven famines, refugee food geographies, and humanitarian logistics
- School meals, childhood nutrition, food literacy, and the future of generational health and wellbeing
- The geography of ‘food jabs’ and their social and ethical justice implications
- Participatory and other research methods for food and spatial justice
- Animal food geographies, animal welfare and more-than-human ethics.
- Food futures and their justice implications
We will also sponsor session proposals less related to inequalities which address important areas of food geography research, such as, for example:
- Urgent/emerging issues relating to any area of food geography
- Original/groundbreaking work on food production or consumption
The FGRG particularly welcomes relevant sessions from early career researchers or PhD students.
We also strongly support co-sponsorship of sessions with other Society Research Groups.
Sessions may take different forms, for example presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions or workshops. Innovative and creatively designed sessions and formats are encouraged, particularly if they help to ‘open up’ important questions regarding the theme of inequalities as they pertain to geographies of food.
Proposals
Proposals should include:
- Title of session
- Name of Co-sponsoring groups, if applicable
- Name and Contact Details for Session Convenors
- Abstract, outlining scope of session – 300 words max.
- Number of session timeslots that are sought (session timeslots last 1 hour 40 mins)
- Indication of preferred organisation of session, e.g. four 20-minute presentations, plus a 20-minute discussion, or five 15-minute presentations, with 5-minute questions for each. We welcome formats that depart from this structure and creative formats, specified in advance.
- Whether you envisage an online, in-person or hybrid format. The conference this year accepts a range of formats. Please note that the Society anticipates very limited support for live hybrid formats. Session organisers wishing to request a hybrid format will be asked to bid for this in a competitive process.
- For transparency reasons, please also inform us if you are submitting sessions to other Research Groups as well.
We are accepting proposals for sessions from 20 December 2025 to 21 January 2026.
We will offer feedback and/or inform people of sponsorship decisions by 30 January 2026.
Please note that these do not have to be finished proposals, or proposals with full presenter lists. This early deadline will allow you to use session sponsorship to help advertise your Call for Papers throughout February, and to pursue co-sponsorship from other relevant research groups.
We encourage early proposals and discussion of potential sessions. These should be sent to Muneezay Jaffery, Food Geographies Research Group Conference Officer, at: muneezay@greenshootsfoundation.org
Deadline: 21 January 2026.