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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...

Professor Ed Turner, Professor of Insect Ecology and Curator of Insects in the Museum of Zoology, has been awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University, in recognition of his outstanding teaching.

Decades of conflict devastated Somalia’s food systems, but scientists like Dr Ahmed Warsame , Head of the Legume Crop Resilience and Quality group at the Department of Plant Sciences, are helping restore them. Marta Millere from the Crop Trust profiles Dr Warsame’s work to revive Somalia’s cowpea diversity. Read the full...

On Monday 8 December, 12.30-1.30pm, the Lunchtime Conversation will see in dialogue Dr Katherine Berthon (Department of Zoology) and Dr Matthew Davies (Department of Archaeology) to discuss how regenerative agriculture can help producing food in a sustainable way and whether the approach is feasible for other realities...