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Joeva Rock recently joined the University of Cambridge as an Assistant Professor in Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies. An anthropologist, she uses ethnographic methods to study the interplay of food, politics, and development. She is a fellow of Murray Edwards College and a member...

Cowpea, a crop that is integral to Ghana’s food security, looks set to become the first genetically modified crop grown there - a major milestone. In late June 2022, GM cowpea cleared the first of the three regulatory hurdles en route to commercialisation in Ghana. Biotechnology proponents have been working for decades to...

The Covid Pandemic, rising cost of food and scarcity of some foodstuffs, have all focussed attention on how local areas can meet the challenges of a fractured food system. Local Food Partnerships (LFPs) play an essential part in this and are key to delivering local and national food priorities. 1 LFPs are partnerships...

Trials will evaluate whether enhancing the natural capacity of crops to interact with common soil fungi can contribute to more sustainable, equitable food production. A field trial of genetically modified and gene edited barley is due to be planted this April. The research is evaluating whether improved crop interactions...