20 May 2026
To celebrate World Bee Day today, 20 May, we have collated some of the events that the Global Food Systems IRC has facilitated (see the Coffee Break seminar we run in 2023 with PhD Nynke Blomer, Zoology, and Benny Shen, Archaeology) and the key projects that our members, including our co-chair Professor Lynn Dicks, are...
Mental Health Awareness Week: Broad Beans
12 May 2026
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week we have talked to one of our members, Dr Nadia Radzman, a researcher at the Sainsbury laboratory, Cambridge, and her work on the health benefits of eating broad beans particularly their positive effects on depression thanks to their chemical composition. “Broad beans could do so...
Could the closure of the Strait of Hormuz encourage a more Sustainable Food System?
2 April 2026
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