Food Security and Climate Change

Climate change and sustainable development goals

A new blog post by Joy Hyvarinen (FIELD Executive Director) considers climate change and the new sustainable development goals. It suggests that thinking about the climate treaty’s goal to slow climate change to a level that is not dangerous could help to design the new goals. It argues that poor and vulnerable countries and communities need a second line of defence against climate change and suggests that the new goals should be rooted in the Millennium Declaration.

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Nourishing the City: The Rise of the Urban Food Question

In this lecture, Prof Kevin Morgan will explain why cities are becoming food policy actors for a whole series of reasons, largely to do with public health, social justice and ecological integrity. 

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Monday, 17 March, 2014

BBSRC funding call

BBSRC invite submissions to the second Horticulture and Potato Initiative (HAPI) call. Approximately £4M of funding is available to support a portfolio of projects at 80% fEC. Guidance about the process for submitting outline proposals are described in the call text which is featured below and attached:

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Monday, 13 January, 2014

Waste not, want not

UK food security champion Tim Benton blogs here about food waste.  You can read more about food waste within global food systems in the following featured publication:

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Monday, 13 January, 2014

Developing the DECC's Evidence Base

For the first time, the Department of Energy and Climate Change have set out their priority interests for developing evidence to underpin policy development and to learn from delivering policies.

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Monday, 13 January, 2014

First Minister Visits Edinburgh Foodbank

Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland, visited an Edinburgh foodbank on Tuesday 17 December.  He condemned the sharp rise in the use of foodbanks as highlighted in a Scottish Government report today as "absolutely unacceptable".   

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Tuesday, 17 December, 2013

Workshop on Green Economy in the Gulf Region

The workshop offers a forum for presenting original and high-quality research on the different aspects of the green economy approach in the Gulf, both examining current developments and plans and looking at the likely future course. We welcome papers examining individual country case studies, comparative studies and regional-level studies.

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Monday, 16 December, 2013

Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development Competition

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Government of Sweden invite eligible organizations to respond to Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development Competition. 

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Friday, 13 December, 2013

Avoiding dangerous climate change research programme, phase 2

The Department of Energy & Climate Change invites tenders for phase 2 of its avoiding dangerous climate change research programme. This aims to use scientifically robust methods to answer policy-relevant research questions on potentially dangerous climate change.

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Wednesday, 4 December, 2013

Cracking the Nut Africa: Improving rural livelihoods and food security

This event will highlight innovations in the development of rural and agricultural livelihoods, financial inclusion and increasing rural food security and nutrition in Africa.

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Monday, 2 December, 2013

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