Tuesday 11 March 2025 1:00pm
Seminar Room 1, Dept of History and Political Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge (https://what3words.com/quick.stiff.rides)
About
Our speakers will focus on how intellectual property protections relate to procurement contracts for crisis relief by focusing on a specific ready-to-use peanut product, followed by a discussion with the audience.
Speakers:
Dr Tad Brown, Research Associate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Tad is a member of the ‘From Collection to Cultivation’ research project at the Dept of HPS. His research engages with the social history of agricultural diversity and he is currently writing a book on the peanut industry. He was previously a member of the Australian Research Council Laureate Project looking at intellectual property and food security.
Click this link for more on Tad's research project: 'Peanut Traces: Crop Collections, Industrial Processing, and Intellectual Property in the 20th Century’
Dr Jellie Molino, Research By-Fellow, Hughes Hall
Jellie is an international legal expert on sustainable public procurement (SPP) with experience working for international organizations, e.g., UNOPS, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, IFC, OECD, ITC-ILO and ADB.
She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Change Engagement, with research focusing on private law, procurement, and climate change.
Picture: Eveline Erupe with her two daughters who are four and 10 months, at the outpatient unit at Lodwar District Hospital, Kenya, where her baby receives a ration of 'plumpy nut', a high-nutrition, peanut-based food supplement. Picture credit: Marisol Grandon/Department for International Development
Lunchtime Conversations are interdisciplinary exchanges designed to inspire new thinking about global food security and food system resilience. Our speakers will discuss their research, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Open to all staff and students; you are welcome to join and contribute to the discussion, whatever your area of expertise!
For further information please mail Francesca Re Manning.