Past Events

A short presentation by Valentine Reiss-Woolever (PhD candidate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) on Crop choice: the social factors that influence oil palm smallholders and their ecological effects followed by Q&A and discussion with the speaker.

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Is eating local the answer to food security and climate change? Can we be self-sufficient and stop relying on imports?

Dr. Susannah Chapman, an environmental and legal anthropologist at the University of Queensland, will present her research on seed practices in the Gambia.

This week's Coffee Break marks World Bee Day.  There will be a short presentation followed by Q&A with Nynke Blomer (PhD candidate, Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Benny Qihao Shen (PhD candidate, Dept of Archaeology, University of Cambridge) on Sharing Landscapes: Competition betwee

Jointly run with the NERC-DTP programme and Cambridge Conservation Research Institute.

For this, the sixth Dialogue of the Forgotten Crops Society, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali discussed the causes of our current global food crisis and the challenges that the food system faces with Professor Tina Barsby (Scien

Short presentation followed by Q&A with Dr Jessica Bergman (Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) on Fantastic fungi and how to keep them healthy

This Food for Thought on-line panel discussion on Monday 17^th April looked at the cost of food, not just in terms of the price the consumer pays, but the toll our current system takes on human health, the environment and the implications for future generations. 

Short presentation followed by Q&A with Dr Soujanya Mantravadi