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 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