Why democratising plant bio-technologies in Africa matters
21 September 2022
On 23 September Dr Carol Ibe of the JR Biotek Foundation started the Michaelmas term of our ECR Coffee Break Seminars discussing: Democratizing plant science research to accelerate food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Ibe and the group discussed the vast opportunities, challenges and prospects in Africa's...
Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Joeva Rock
8 September 2022
Joeva Rock recently joined the University of Cambridge as an Assistant Professor in Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies. An anthropologist, she uses ethnographic methods to study the interplay of food, politics, and development. She is a fellow of Murray Edwards College and a member...
Restoring Tropical Agroecosystems: Nine Actions for Success
17 August 2022
Actions to successfully restore tropical agroecosystems are described in a new paper published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE) , written by a team led by Dr Michael Pashkevich, Marshall Sherfield Fellow in the Insect Ecology Group at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. The authors present nine...
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