We can’t keep eating like this : food system change for sustainable health
Date
2011-11
Authors
McLachlan, Milla
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Publisher
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Born in Cape Town, Milla McLachlan attended schools in the city, as well as
in Pretoria and Johannesburg, before receiving her undergraduate education
at Stellenbosch University. She completed a PhD at Michigan State University in
East Lansing in the USA, and recently completed an MA at Naropa University in
Boulder, Colorado.
Milla has been involved in international social development for more than
30 years, focusing on addressing food and nutrition issues though public policy and
community action. As Nutrition Advisor at the World Bank in Washington, DC,
she supported policy and strategy development for national nutrition programmes
in several countries, including Bangladesh and Ethiopia. She coordinated a team
of eminent nutrition researchers in a review of the nutrition work of the World
Bank and UNICEF, which led to the publication of an edited volume, Combating
Malnutrition: Time to Act. This work contributed to the development of a
renewed focus on nutrition in World Bank programmes.
Since her return to South Africa in 2006, Milla has consulted widely in Africa, building capacity for
community-based action on nutrition and facilitating leadership- and partnership-building activities.
With a particular interest in social change as it relates to food systems, Milla now enjoys navigating
the interface between research, policy and practice through her leadership and involvement in the
SU Food Security Initiative (FSI), the Community Nutrition Security Project of the SU Division of
Human Nutrition, and the Southern African Food Lab, a multi-stakeholder initiative using social
innovation to shift the food system towards greater sustainability.
Description
McLachlan, Milla. 2011. We can’t keep eating like this: food system change for sustainable health. Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University.
Inaugural address delivered on 25 October 2011
Inaugural address delivered on 25 October 2011
Keywords
Food security -- South Africa, Nutrition -- South Africa, Food supply -- South africa, Food security -- South africa -- Health aspects, Food supply -- South africa -- Health aspects
Citation
McLachlan, Milla. 2011. We can’t keep eating like this: food system change for sustainable health. Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University.