Global food security is a major research priority for UK and international science. The University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in Global Food Security aims to integrate research ongoing across the various university Schools and Departments, to improve our understanding of the challenges of food security, and to develop solutions. Image courtesy of CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Latest episodes
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Cath Tayleur - Birds, bees and butter - enhancing ecosystem services and livelihoods in the shea parklands of…
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Phil Franks - Food versus forests in sub-Saharan Africa
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Francois Kayitakare - Early warning for building resilience to food crises in Africa
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Jean Francois Mercure - the food-water-energy nexus in Brazil
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John Ingram - Food systems, food security and environmental change
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Niki Charalampopoulou - Reducing food waste to reduce our environmental impact
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Pablo Monsivais - Hungry and obese - the challenge of household food insecurity
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Tara Garnett - Dietary choices and planetary impacts
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Nicolas Tubbs - Gola's landscape approach, connecting forest and people with cocoa
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Nigel Poole - Where next for agricultural research and extension
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Rhys Green - Would land sharing or land sparing allow more wild species to survive?
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Toby Smith - Fresh notes from the field
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Shadrack Yoash & John Opio (Farm Africa) - Agriculture is the backbone of our countries - viewpoint from t…
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Barbara Stocking - Viewpoint from the international NGO community
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Food: Field to Table? - 3 May 2016 - You are what you eat: Nutrition and Health Policy
Bhavani Shankar (SOAS, University of London) Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA programme) Theresa Marteau (Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Cambridge) In…
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Food: Field to Table? - 19 April 2016 - The Modern Hunter-Gatherer: Access to Food in Urban Environments
Anastasia Orfanidou (Architecture, Cambridge) Waste(s)Mart: The benefits of local food recycling
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Food: Field to Table? - 24 February 2016 - The Politics of Food Provisioning and Access
Patta Scott-Villiers (IDS, Sussex) Commoditisation of the right to food
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Food: Field to Table? - 27 January 2016 - The Roles of Gender and Technology in Market Exclusion
Gina Porter (Anthropology, Durham) David Bright (Oxfam) Representative of Vodafone m-PesaTM project
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Food: Field to Table? - 2 December 2015 - Paris 2015: Securing Food in a Changing Climate
Nazia Habib-Minz (University of Cambridge) Climate Change and Food Katrin Glatzel (Agriculture for Impact, Imperial College) African Agriculture
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Food: Field to Table? - 21 October 2015 - Robots, Insects and Lab Meat: Food in the Future
Ian Hardy (Entomophagy, University of Nottingham) Eating Insects Nigel Maxted (University of Birmingham) Crops for the Future Rebecca Di Mambro (Retail Brand Manager, LEON)