Food Security and Climate Change

BBSRC food security event

To coincide with the launch of its programme on the resilience of the UK food system, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is holding an event to bring together researchers in relevant fields.

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Friday, 26 June, 2015

Food Security: Global priorities and the UK’s role

This seminar will be a timely opportunity to discuss priorities for food security in the UK - and Britain’s role in helping meet global challenges.

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Thursday, 25 June, 2015

Food Security Fund - £14 million

The themes for the Global Food Security programme were announced on 29 May. They are:

  1. Enhancing productivity;
  2. Resilience and sustainability of agricultural landscapes;
  3. Increasing resilience of international supply chains; and
  4. Influencing food choice for health, sustainability and resilience at the individual and household level.

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Tuesday, 2 June, 2015

12th PASCAL conference - Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers, 7-9 October 2015

The deadline for Abstracts for the 12th PASCAL conference is 18th May 2015. The conference will be hosted by one of Italy’s leading institutions, the University of Catania, in the beautiful island of Sicily. The theme of the conference concerns how cities and their regions are connected to their universities at strategic frontiers. These include knowledge and political frontiers, and each is linked to global challenges that include employment, migration, health, food security, culture and climate change.

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Friday, 1 May, 2015

Food Hubs for Regional Food Systems

The Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University is working with community leaders in developing a food hub connecting small farms with regional markets. 

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Monday, 9 February, 2015

Don't Waste Our Future - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste

Don't Waste Our Future - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste and for new models of sustainable development is a new project  led within the Education for Global Citizenship Unit of the University of Glasgow by Dr Alan Britton and also involving Dr Jesus Granados Sanchez.

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Sunday, 11 January, 2015

Climate change learning partnerships and lifelong learning

Climate change education and training was high on the agenda at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 20) which was held from 1 to 12 December 2014 in Lima, Peru.

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Thursday, 8 January, 2015

World Food Day 2014

Thursday 16 October is World Food Day.  This year the theme is "Family, Farming, Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth". 

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Wednesday, 15 October, 2014

Food for Life Scotland Programme

The Soil Association’s Food for Life Scotland Programme works in partnership to transform food culture and food systems across the country so we can eat food that is good for us, our communities and our planet.

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Wednesday, 15 October, 2014

Food security tops N8 agenda

Driving innovations in food security will be top of the agenda this month at the next N8 Industry Innovation Forum event.

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Thursday, 2 October, 2014

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