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Join us 29 May with Alan Spearot of University of California, Santa Cruz and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) speaking on "Enabling Sustainable Access to High Value Markets: Maize Cooperatives in Rwanda"
⌚ 12pm
📍 ZICER 0.01, UEA
✔️ Join in person or online
All welcome
📅📢RESCHEDULE: Please note our seminar with Alan Spearot on enabling sustainable access to high value markets will no longer take place this Thursday (29 May), and instead will be arranged for a future date, which we share as soon as we have an update.
🎉Congratulations to Theresa Cassandra Saini for being awarded the John Innes Foundation-funded Nuffield International Farming scholarship.
Her work will investigate the global best practices in establishing local capacity for producing clean, disease-free cassava planting materials.
👩💻 Catch up with our seminar from Dr Cary Fowler in this blog from Theresa Cassandra Saini.
"Global food systems are not on track to meet food and nutritional needs around the world [...] there are strategic, urgent, and essential actions we can take to counter these risks."
tinyurl.com/2czb65r6
There's a great event coming 18 June with @gejgroup.bsky.social and @developmentuea.bsky.social - "Exploring the contours of feminist political ecology: Dialogues in the Norfolk Landscape”
A keynote from Rebecca Elmhirst, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton
More details👇
🗓️ Save the date: 2024 World Food Prize Foundation Winner Dr Cary Fowler is giving this year's John Innes Foundation Lecture at @johninnescentre.bsky.social Centre on 23 May
"Trends – Trouble – Tenacity: The food security picture for 2050"
More information👇
nisd.ac.uk/event/trends...
This summer, Deimantė Daujotaite conducted her fieldwork with Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Njoro, a global expert for wheat rust research.
Deima worked to understand what Kenyan farmers need from new wheat varieties.
nisd.ac.uk/socio-econom...
🎉 We are delighted to announce that 2024 World Food Prize Foundation Winner Dr Cary Fowler will give our 2025 John Innes Foundation lecture this May.
The lecture will take place:
🗓️ 13:30 (BST) 23 May
📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social Conference centre
More details soon!
🎉NISD intern Georgia Oliver has been awarded Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association Norfolk International Scholarship to study environmental schemes internationally.
She will compare UK schemes, such as SFI and ELMS with schemes in other countries to inform UK policy 🚜
nisd.ac.uk/nisd-intern-...
Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
Dr Cary Fowler speaks about the challenges for food security and the importance of crop diversity for agricultural resilience and productivity
Join us 18 June at UEA for the 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture:
“Exploring the contours of feminist political ecology” @thenisd.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
Voices from Norfolk and beyond on land, justice & hope.
🎟️ Free, but booking required: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Join us on June 18th for the 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture! 🌿💚 Exploring feminist political ecology & environmental justice with an all-star panel. Book now! 👉 bit.ly/4jh6sPO
#FeministPoliticalEcology
