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Global food security is a major research priority for UK and international science. The University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in Global Food Security aims to integrate research ongoing across the various university Schools and Departments,


    • Jan 5, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
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    Cath Tayleur - Birds, bees and butter - enhancing ecosystem services and livelihoods in the shea parklands of sub-Saharan Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2017 18:03


    Phil Franks - Food versus forests in sub-Saharan Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 21:31


    Francois Kayitakare - Early warning for building resilience to food crises in Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 21:13


    Jean Francois Mercure - the food-water-energy nexus in Brazil

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 22:01


    John Ingram - Food systems, food security and environmental change

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 22:23


    Niki Charalampopoulou - Reducing food waste to reduce our environmental impact

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 13:54


    Pablo Monsivais - Hungry and obese - the challenge of household food insecurity

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 15:59


    Tara Garnett - Dietary choices and planetary impacts

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 15:33


    Nicolas Tubbs - Gola's landscape approach, connecting forest and people with cocoa

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 18:37


    Nigel Poole - Where next for agricultural research and extension

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 27:46


    Rhys Green - Would land sharing or land sparing allow more wild species to survive?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 37:18


    Toby Smith - Fresh notes from the field

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 23:47


    Shadrack Yoash & John Opio (Farm Africa) - Agriculture is the backbone of our countries - viewpoint from the grassroots

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 35:12


    Barbara Stocking - Viewpoint from the international NGO community

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2016 26:57


    Food: Field to Table? - 3 May 2016 - You are what you eat: Nutrition and Health Policy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2016 104:00


    Bhavani Shankar (SOAS, University of London) Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA programme) Theresa Marteau (Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Cambridge) Intervening to change dietary behaviour to improve population and planetary health

    Food: Field to Table? - 19 April 2016 - The Modern Hunter-Gatherer: Access to Food in Urban Environments

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2016 33:01


    Anastasia Orfanidou (Architecture, Cambridge) Waste(s)Mart: The benefits of local food recycling

    Food: Field to Table? - 24 February 2016 - The Politics of Food Provisioning and Access

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2016 39:52


    Patta Scott-Villiers (IDS, Sussex) Commoditisation of the right to food

    Food: Field to Table? - 27 January 2016 - The Roles of Gender and Technology in Market Exclusion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2016 46:21


    Gina Porter (Anthropology, Durham) David Bright (Oxfam) Representative of Vodafone m-PesaTM project

    Food: Field to Table? - 2 December 2015 - Paris 2015: Securing Food in a Changing Climate

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2015 63:00


    Nazia Habib-Minz (University of Cambridge) Climate Change and Food Katrin Glatzel (Agriculture for Impact, Imperial College) African Agriculture

    Food: Field to Table? - 21 October 2015 - Robots, Insects and Lab Meat: Food in the Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 97:00


    Ian Hardy (Entomophagy, University of Nottingham) Eating Insects Nigel Maxted (University of Birmingham) Crops for the Future Rebecca Di Mambro (Retail Brand Manager, LEON)

    Lynn Dicks - Cool Farm Nature: developing an evidence-based biodiversity metric for the Cool Farm Tool

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2015 16:29


    A talk from Plenary 3 of the Global Food Security Cambridge Symposium.

    Katya Yatskovskaya - The impact of water availablility on food security

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 18:38


    Audio from a talk in Plenary 4.

    Discussion - Plenary 3: Making a difference

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 25:45


    Panel and audience discussion, chaired by Rob Doubleday, with Lynn Dicks, Gemma Cranston, Lara Allen and Steve Wearne on the panel.

    Steve Wearne - Making a difference to poilicy: challenges and opportunities

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 15:22


    Lara Allen - Making a difference: an NGO perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 17:54


    The audio of a talk from Plenary 3.

    Gemma Cranston - the business case for investing in nature

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 16:25


    The audio of a talk from Plenary 3.

    Jon Lyall - Transgenic supression of avian influenza virus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 22:00


    Mark Holmes - MRSA on Dairy Farms

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 22:22


    John Carr - Translating basic research on insect-plant interactions to aid in the protection of beans in East Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 25:54


    Shailija Fennel - Rural livelihood options for youth from agricultural households

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 21:18


    Mukesh Kumar - Uk-India food supply chains: sustainability and food security

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 23:20


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