Past Events

Christmas is coming and what does the industry want to see Santa deliver for agri-tech? We’ll be hearing from experts from the plant breeding, agronomy and agri-engineering industries about what they would like to see being routinely adopted by farmers and growers to help make them more profitable, productive and sustainable. It might be the banishing of panto villain Count Blackgrass from the kingdom, or access to a handful of seeds to grow a beanstalk that fixes nitrogen AND gives great yields. Or would you prefer to sleep for 100 years while your farm runs via the Internet of Things?!

The conference is organized by the Centre for
the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and cosponsored
by the Future of Life Institute and
the Templeton World Charity Foundation as
part of the ‘Managing Extreme Technological
Risk’ research programme.
This conference aims to bring distinct but yet
complimentary communities together, to ask
how we can best work together and where our
efforts should be directed, over the rest of the
decade and beyond in mitigating the most
severe potential hazards from human
activities. Dedicated sessions, led by invited
speakers, will focus on artificial intelligence,
depreciation of earth systems, and
bioengineering. The opening session will give
broader consideration to how to better
combine our communities’ contributions to
efforts for the management of catastrophic
risk.

A GARNet international workshop on natural variation in plants entitled 'Natural Variation as a Tool for Gene Discovery and Crop Improvement'.

The programme conveners Professor David Salt and Dr Ian Henderson have put together an outstanding selection of world leading scientists in the area of Natural Variation who will provide presentation in the following scientific sessions:

Natural Variation and QTL Analysis
Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
Breakthrough Technologies
Epigenetic Variation
Genetics of Adaptation
Ecology and Population
Translational Studies

Celebrate the holidays with other post-docs and graduate students interested in global food systems!

International agreements, increasing urbanization and climate change are putting pressure on the global food system. The annual Chatham House food conference will address the specific challenges that need to be overcome to improve sustainability and food security, deliver carbon reductions in the food system, and the role of policy, industry and civil society in achieving these goals. - See more at: https://www.chathamhouse.org/conferences/sustainable-food-future-2016#st...

Part of the new Research Seminars in Policy-Making for Food and Agriculture series, presented by the Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge Global Food Security and the Centre for Rising Powers.

Research Seminar on Policy-Making for Food and Agriculture

Speakers:

Prof. Sandra Schwindenhammer, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin

Dr Ksenia Gerasimova, University of Cambridge 

This conference will bring together policymakers and key stakeholders to discuss the policy priorities for the UK food, drink and farming industry.

With expected discussion on the impact of the EU referendum on the UK’s food and farming sector, the seminar will also be a timely opportunity to discuss Defra’s industry-led 25-year plan to boost the growth of the UK’s food and farming sector, due out later this year.

This conference, organised by Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum, brings together policymakers and key stakeholders to discuss the policy priorities for the UK food, drink and farming industry.

The UK's first cross-sector event which brings together the food and drink industry, retailers, foodservice providers, government and those working in nutrition, health and sustainability.