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GFS IRC member Franziska Fischer , facilitates stakeholder engagement for the IPBES ONet facilitation team. Here she writes about the opportunities and benefits that IPBES has to offer ECRs. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ) is “the IPCC for biodiversity.” It is...

This Food for Thought on-line panel event took place on Thursday 16 November from 17:30 to 18:30. The event’s focus was wheat; why it’s the perfect crop for the capitalist era, what this reveals about our food system and how our reliance on modern wheat might make us more vulnerable to climate change. Chaired by Dr Nadia...

Lisa Neidhardt is currently in the final stages of her PhD in molecular biology working in Prof David Ron’s lab at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) . Her research explores the molecular basis of cellular stress response pathways – specifically the unfolded protein response – through a combination of cell...

Dr Soujanya Mantravadi is a research associate at the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, currently working on food supply chains and digital interventions for the  Mandala project . She has a PhD in Industrial engineering and Information systems. The Manufacturing Academy of Denmark financed her...