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Read more at: Everyday Objects of Food Security
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Everyday Objects of Food Security

19 March 2020

Objects, one of our key programmes in collaboration with the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies at the University of Cambridge, has begun releasing a series of videos titled 'Everyday Objects of Food Security'. These videos detail conversations by small groups of researchers from the natural, physical, and social sciences, and the humanities, with each group discussing specific objects that relate to global food security.

Read more at: Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Gitanjali Yadav
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Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Gitanjali Yadav

4 March 2020

To continue with our series on female researchers who play vital roles in improving local and global food security, we present Dr Gita Yadav, whose work focuses as much on understanding how nature has evolved and optimized mechanisms to enhance photosynthetic efficiency, and on how plants communicate with each other and the rest of the biosphere, as it does on encouraging female participation in science.

Read more at: Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Nadia Radzman
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Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Nadia Radzman

3 March 2020

Female researchers play vital roles in helping our communities, countries and world become more food secure. Dr Nadia Radzman, a plant science researcher, lets us know why legumes are important both in agricultural practice and in our diets. Her narrative also underlines the important role that supportive supervisors can play in positively guiding early career researchers' professional paths.

Read more at: Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Jean Adams
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Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Jean Adams

25 February 2020

We continue to highlight the important work done by female researchers to help our communities, countries and world become more food secure. Dr Jean Adams, a public health researcher and lecturer, discusses the importance of designing food systems to ensure that everyone has access to affordable and healthy food to combat food insecurity. She also underlines the importance of having supportive female role models in her early years, and of being part of strong professional networks in her current work.

Read more at: Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Charlotte Milbank
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Cambridge Global Food Security Researcher: Charlotte Milbank

24 February 2020

To celebrate International Women's Day 2020, we're featuring the important work that female researchers do to help make our communities, countries and world more food secure. We're also highlighting the diverse ways that food security can be approached, how our researcher's view women's roles and visibility in research and innovation, and the interdisciplinary nature of their work. PhD student Charlotte Milbank is researching how wild foods can contribute to improved food security in northern Indian communities.

Read more at: What’s your beef?
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What’s your beef?

8 January 2020

Britain is a nation of beef eaters – the French even nicknamed us les rosbifs. This could all change if environmentalists, concerned by the climate impact of the meat industry, get their way. Yet while the evidence may be clear, driving more widespread change is far from straightforward: the proposition of eating less beef and lamb is fuelling heated debate. Would it really be such a good thing? And if so, why can’t - or won’t - many people stop eating it?

Read more at: Cambridge Global Food Security’s continuing contribution to the Europe-wide EIT Food Project
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Cambridge Global Food Security’s continuing contribution to the Europe-wide EIT Food Project

11 September 2019

Cambridge Global Food Security continues to be a valuable partner in the EIT Food #AnnualFoodAgenda Project, hosting more successful events under this season’s title: Healthier Nutrition. Led by IMDEA (Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies), the #AnnualFoodAgenda project aims to encourage people to think more about the food they eat and where it comes from.

Read more at: How plant scientists at Cambridge are trying to defend our most important crops from a deadly disease
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How plant scientists at Cambridge are trying to defend our most important crops from a deadly disease

5 June 2019

Plant scientists in Cambridge have discovered how gene activity can increase plant resistance to blight.

Read more at: Amazed by Algae at the Festival of Plants
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Amazed by Algae at the Festival of Plants

23 May 2019

As a partner in the EIT Food #AnnualFoodAgenda Project , Cambridge Global Food Security launched our second season of public events at this year’s Festival of Plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden on 18 May 2019. Our Amazing Algae stand was part of a large number of activities run during the one-day Festival: a fun-filled...

Read more at: Two sustainable food events you won’t want to miss
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Two sustainable food events you won’t want to miss

7 May 2019

As a partner in the EIT Food #AnnualFoodAgenda Project, Cambridge Global Food Security is pleased to be launching our second season of public events.

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