Invitation

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organising Committee, we are pleased to invite you to the 9th International Food Data Conference (9th IFDC), which will be organised by the Institute of Food Research. The conference will take place from 14th to 17th September 2011 at the Conference Facilities of the Norwich Bioscience Institute (NBI), UK.

The conference will serve to highlight research, policy, programme activities and to guide sustainable food systems with a minimal impact on the environment ensuring synergies to protect and promote biodiversity for food and nutrition. 

The programme will involve presentations from representatives and experts from all regions of the world on key recommendations defining sustainable diets and related topics such as food as an ecosystem service, varietal differences in nutrient content of foods, biodiversity as an element of dietary diversity, non-intensive agricultural systems for diversity and sustainable development, traditional diets of indigenous people and more. The positive options offered by linking biodiversity to nutrition will be lost without urgent action that directly engages stakeholders in the fields of environment, agriculture, nutrition, health, education, culture and trade. Therefore, the sustainable diet‘s approach is the theme of the conference, where the scientific basis of food composition and sustainable diets will be presented.

Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on the following conference topics: 

• Biodiversity as a food-based approach for improving nutrition 
• Influence on climate change, soil and variety on nutritional composition of foods 
• n-3 fatty acid content and requirements in relation to sustainable fisheries 
• Challenges for trade including labelling, health claims and biodiversity 
• Food composition (including biodiversity) related policies, standards and recommendations 
• Database management systems: quality and interchange related issues 
• New emerging technologies for analysis of nutrients, bioactive compounds and food allergens in food 
• Delivering food composition data via emerging innovative tools and devices for dietary assessment and health applications 
• Efficient capacity development at three levels (individual, institutional and political/environmental) 
• Current activities on food composition at national and regional food data network 

We sincerely look forward to welcoming you in September 2011 at the NBI Conference Centre, Norwich Research Park, UK. 

Paul Finglas                                                                       Barbara Burlingame
(EuroFIR & EUROFOODS Coordinator)                            (FAO)

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