Food Security and Climate Change

Food futures – towards sustainable production and consumption

This conference will consider how the production and consumption of food can be shaped to match the future needs of the global population, and ask what changes in investment, business practice and global governance might ensure this occurs in a sustainable way.  9 - 10 December 2013, Chatham House, UK.

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Monday, 2 December, 2013

Cracking the Nut Africa: Improving rural livelihoods and food security

This conference will highlight innovations in the development of rural and agricultural livelihoods, financial inclusion and increasing rural food security and nutrition in Africa.  Register your place by visiting crackingthenutafrica.eventbrite.com.

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Monday, 2 December, 2013

Renewed drive for food security through refreshed strategy

The Global Food Security (GFS) programme has launched a refreshed strategy that focuses on a number of key future priorities. The new approach was unveiled at a Parliamentary event to highlight the success in bringing research funders together to tackle food security challenges.  You can read more about it here.

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Monday, 2 December, 2013

The rise of the food bank

CR&DALL is delighted to be working with Ewan Gurr, Scotland Development Officer for The Trussell Trust at the upcoming EcCoWell conference on 5 December.  The Trussell Trusts works to empower local communities to combat poverty and exclusion in the UK and recently they have been instrumental in setting up food banks. Food banks are now The Trussell Trust's biggest project.

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Monday, 25 November, 2013

Glasgow: A City of the Future - the EcCoWell Approach for 2020

Despite demanding weather and travel conditions in Scotland, we were delighted to have been able to run the second EcCoWell conference successfully in Glasgow on 5 December.

A full report, all presentations and some videos of the event will be published in due course. See below for attachments of those we have received to date.

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Friday, 25 October, 2013

Peer suggests redirecting funds for organic farming to research

In a debate on genetically modified food in the House of Lords on 17 October, Lib Dem peer Dick Taverne asked Conservative peer Rupert Ponsonby whether he would lobby the farming minister to “transfer the millions of pounds that are available for conversion to organic farming...to our first-class research institutes such as Rothamsted and the John Innes Centre”.

Ponsonby replied that the government's recently announced agri-tech strategy would "go a long way towards achieving the objectives that [Taverne] desires”. The strategy was published on 22 July and pledged £160 million for agricultural innovation centres and collaborative R&D projects.

During the debate, Ponsonby said that GM was one of several “tools in the box” in food technology, and agreed that funding research is an effective way of tackling the issue of food security around the world.

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Food Security to 2050: Issues for the global south

The Glasgow Centre for International Development are hosting a free public seminar on Tuesday 15 October. Professor Tim Benton, University of Leeds and UK Food Security Champion will explore issues around global food security and the major drivers at a macro level - economic and population growth and climate change. For more details please see the flyer attached.

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Scotland's Food Strategy Conference.

Scotland's Food Strategy Conference.  Wednesday 18th September 2013. This conference will consider the strategy to redress this negative cycle and improve the national diet.  Check here for further details http://foodstrategy.holyrood.com/

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The geographical and temporal displacement of young people’s knowledge and agency: impacts for food security and environmental change.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Thomas Aneurin Smith to our food security discussion forum. Tom is a Teaching Assistant in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. In this short article Tom explores the influence of young people on current practices in agriculture, pastoralism and fishing raising interesting questions about the relationship between adults and young people and the impact of this on future food production and environmental change

Tom’s current research interests include exploring the geographies of young people in the global South and the global North, the production and reproduction of environmental knowledges, and human-nature interactions. His doctoral research, completed in 2012, investigated the impacts of environmental education projects run by the state and non-governmental organisations in Tanzania. This included examining the role of young people as local environmental actors, how environmental knowledges are reproduced in urban and rural communities, and how different forms of environmental knowledge interact, are learnt, and enacted through particular spaces.

At Sheffield Tom teaches on the undergraduate Geography course and the Masters in International Development.

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SHRE Research Awards 2013

See attached flyer for details and contact information

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Monday, 15 July, 2013

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