Sustainability

This track will showcase the efforts of food industry, academia, and government to develop and ensure a sustainable food supply. The science and technology to support efforts in food sufficiency, sustainable product development and packaging, ingredient sourcing and food production, and waste management will be addressed. The business case for environmental sustainability will also be covered.

For a listing of the 2013 session proposal topical areas for this track, please view the 2013 Topical Priorities guide (PDF)

The IFT Sustainability group in the IFT online Community is available for additional resources, including discussions. Not a member of this group? Join today!

IFT is committed to providing science-based education and has measures in place to ensure sessions in sponsored tracks are of quality science and research. IFT members review proposed topics and make a final determination on content and presenter selections, best suited for IFT audiences.