Food Security and Climate Change

12th PASCAL conference - Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers, 7-9 October 2015

The deadline for Abstracts for the 12th PASCAL conference is 18th May 2015. The conference will be hosted by one of Italy’s leading institutions, the University of Catania, in the beautiful island of Sicily. The theme of the conference concerns how cities and their regions are connected to their universities at strategic frontiers. These include knowledge and political frontiers, and each is linked to global challenges that include employment, migration, health, food security, culture and climate change.

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Friday, 1 May, 2015

Food Hubs for Regional Food Systems

The Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University is working with community leaders in developing a food hub connecting small farms with regional markets. 

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Monday, 9 February, 2015

Don't Waste Our Future - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste

Don't Waste Our Future - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste and for new models of sustainable development is a new project  led within the Education for Global Citizenship Unit of the University of Glasgow by Dr Alan Britton and also involving Dr Jesus Granados Sanchez.

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Sunday, 11 January, 2015

Climate change learning partnerships and lifelong learning

Climate change education and training was high on the agenda at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 20) which was held from 1 to 12 December 2014 in Lima, Peru.

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Thursday, 8 January, 2015

World Food Day 2014

Thursday 16 October is World Food Day.  This year the theme is "Family, Farming, Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth". 

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Wednesday, 15 October, 2014

Food for Life Scotland Programme

The Soil Association’s Food for Life Scotland Programme works in partnership to transform food culture and food systems across the country so we can eat food that is good for us, our communities and our planet.

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Wednesday, 15 October, 2014

Food security tops N8 agenda

Driving innovations in food security will be top of the agenda this month at the next N8 Industry Innovation Forum event.

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Thursday, 2 October, 2014

Half a million tonnes of food waste every year!

Scotland annually discards more than half a million tonnes of food waste every year, much of which would be edible. At the same time, food insecurity remains a short term problem and a long term strategic issue over the globe.

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Thursday, 11 September, 2014

Don’t waste our Future!

Many congratulations to Alan Britton who has heard that a bid entitled "Don’t waste our Future! - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste and for new models of sustainable development and consumption in the EYD 2015” has been funded.

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Tuesday, 9 September, 2014

Citizen Science 2015

Citizen Science 2015 is the inaugural conference and gathering of the newly formed Citizen Science Association (CSA). This event is a pre-conference of the 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting.

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Tuesday, 19 August, 2014

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