Events Archive

Speaker presentations from our past events will be posted here.

19/02/20  Shirley Tarawali Seminar: 'till the cows come home: a well worn path or a new trajectory?

 

27/11/19  Maggie Gill Seminar: Bridging the research-policy interface: why it is important and thoughts on how to do it. 

 

8/10/19  Mark Davis Seminar: Joined up thinking in agriculture and development: Can humanity survive without agriculture? Can agriculture survive humanity? 

 

19/9/19  Seminar in partnership with SEBI: Can we feed the planet, and stay within planetary boundaries?

You can view the seminar here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/research/sebi/news/video-can-we-feed-the-planet-and-stay-within-plane

The EAT–Lancet Commission addresses the need to feed a growing global population a healthy diet while also defining sustainable food systems that will minimise damage to our planet.  Professor Mario Herrero, a contributor to the EAT-Lancet report, is  Chief Research Scientist of Agriculture and Food at CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia), and is a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Organised by Supporting Evidence Based Interventions (SEBI) www.ed.ac.uk/vet/research/sebi in collaboration with the Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems (formerly known as the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security), both hosted by the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

 

 

05/06/19  Ian Godwin Seminar: Good Enough to Eat?

 

 

02/04/19  Prof Sayed Azam-Ali Seminar: Food of the past to feed the future

 

 

22/11/18 Prof Toby Mottram Seminar: Measuring the invisible: cow monitoring moves out of the stone age

 

12/10/18  Alan Tollervey Seminar:  The International & National Priorities That Drive our R&D Investments

 

10/10/18  Ulrich Loening & Daisy Martinez Seminar: Healthy Crops A New Agricultural Revolution

 

07/09/18  Andrew Campbell Seminar: The converging insecurities of food, water and energy, amplified by climate change: what sorts of knowledge do we need, and how might we acquire it?

 

02/08/18  Dr Fiona Borthwick Seminar: Sustainable Agricultural in the Ramu Valley, Papua New Guinea

 

23/5/17  Peter McCornick Seminar: Water For Food Security

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