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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Session

Modelling diet change - sustainable food system transformation

Time:

Wednesday, 26/Aug/2026:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Nanda Wijermans

Location: Calman CLC013

Arnold Wolfendale lecture theatre, ground floor (400)

Presentations

11:30am - 11:50am

Agent Based Modeling of Food Environments: A Scoping Review with a Focus on Access Representations.

Mabelle Monzer¹, Joaquin Ameller², Amélie Bourceret¹, Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx³, Helene Charreire²

¹CIHEAMM-IAMM Montpellier, France; ²CIRAD, Montpellier, France; ³KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

11:50am - 12:05pm

Which Mechanisms Matter in Dietary Choices?

Chiara Richardt¹, Derek Karssenberg¹, Joreintje Mackenbach², Judith Verstegen¹

¹Utrecht University, The Netherlands; ²Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

12:05pm - 12:20pm

Developing theoretical and empirical insights of dietary change using a modular agent-based model of UK meat consumption

Emma Bailey, Tristan Cann

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

12:20pm - 12:40pm

Front-of-package warning labels and the dynamics of purchasing decisions in ultra-processed food consumption: a computational model

Cesar Garcia-Diaz, Sonia Lopez-Ceron, Jeremy C. Young

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

12:40pm - 12:55pm

Future scenarios for urban agriculture and food security in sub-Saharan Africa: Modelling the urban land-food system in an agent-based approach

Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx^1,2, Koen De Vos^1,2,3,4, Joseph Oseko Kaunda¹, Anton Van Rompaey¹

¹Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium; ³International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; ⁴Environmental Intelligence Unit, Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium