Lessons from the Past : Archaeology , Anthropology and the Future of Food Preliminary Programme 09 : 30 – 10 : 00 Registration and Refreshments

09:30 – 10:00 Registration and Refreshments 10:00 – 10:05 Welcome Charles Godfray and Kelly Reed (Oxford Martin School) 10:05 – 10:25 John Ingram (University of Oxford) Food System Evolution 10:25 – 10:55 Philipa Ryan (British Museum) Crop choices in northern Sudan; past, present and future 10:55 – 11:20 Daryl Stump (University of York) What on earth does the archaeology of agriculture in eastern Africa tell us about future sustainability 11:20 – 11:40 Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter) Chicken futures on a knife edge 11:40 – 12:00 George Dakurah (University of Reading) Households’ food preferences under Climate Variability and Change in northwestern Ghana 12:00 – 12:20 William Rubel Competition between grains the rise of Triticum aestivum sp. aestivum 12:20 – 13:30 Lunch, Balliol College 13:30 – 13:50 Robin Allaby et al. (University of Warwick) The origins of mutation load in crops 13:50 – 14:10 Diane Lister (University of Cambridge) Barley: an ancient and adaptable crop important for food security today 14:10 – 14:30 Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez et al. (University of Oxford) Genomic insights into the origin and evolution of the sweet potato 14:30 – 14:50 Harriet Hunt et al. (University of Cambridge) Integrating past and present data to model limits on the cultivation of buckwheat