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Find, #eat and share the world edible #plants – an interview with Joseph Simcox, the Botanical Explorer
Earlier this week I had a visit from Joseph Simcox, the self-styled Botanical explorer. A dynamo of a man, he’s travelled the world to over 100 countries to find, eat and share as many of the huge range of edible … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, climate change, edible plants, food, Joseph Simcox, plants
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#Gender, the right to #food and future priorities – a interview with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food
I met up with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food just before she took part in the fifth of a series of seminars on Ecofeminism, Food and Social Justice of the Food Research Collaboration at … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, food, Gender, Hilal Elver, Human rights, nutrition, right to food, SDGs, sustainable developmen goals, urbanisation
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From India’s green to greed to evergreen revolution – M S Swaminathen discusses a lifetime’s work
In 2009, I met M S Swaminathan during a visit to India. A plant genetistist, who was at Cambridge at the same time as Watson and Crick, he is often known as the father of India’s green revolution. A towering … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Biotechnology, climate change, Farming, food security, food system, Green Revolution, hunger, India, M S Swaminathan, patents, poverty, seeds, Soils, sustainability
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Addressing #hunger, #debt, #trade and #finance – a lifetime’s work for Susan George
Susan George has been an indefatigable campaigner for a fairer world all her life. Her first book ‘How the Other Half Dies – the real reasons for world hunger’ published in the mid 1970s was hugely influential on a whole … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, debt, Farming, Finance, food security, food system, hunger, inequality, poverty, power, Susan George, Trade, TTIP, Washington Consensus, World Bank
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#Economics, #climate change and #farming – time to get it right: An interview with Prof Felix Fitzroy
For too long most economists have generally got climate change and farming wrong argues Felix Fitzroy, emeritus professor of economics at the University of St Andrews. In this short interview he explains how he became interested in the connections, the … Continue reading
Why we must change now by UK’s #FoodSecurity champion, Tim Benton
Tim Benton has got quite a title. He is the champion for the UK Global Food Security Programme. He is also a professor in population ecology at the University of Leeds. In January, he was one of the witnesses at … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, climate change, Farming, food security, food stocks, poverty
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Smallholder innovation for resilience in the face of climate change – reports from China, India, Kenya and Peru.
“Understanding the coping and risk-management strategies of farmers who are already facing extreme climatic stresses and variation will be useful in developing strategies that can be adopted by other farmers who will face similar challenges in the future” according to a … Continue reading
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Tagged China, climate change, genetic resources, India, Kenya, Peru
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