Staff/Student Journal Club
Journal club listings for staff and students of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems and related schools.
If you are a staff member or student and wish to be added to the list to receive Journal Club notifications, please contact: globalagriculture@ed.ac.uk |
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JOURNAL CLUB 2023/24 |
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5 June 2024 | 12-1pm |
Amanda Wood will be presenting the results of the article ‘Clearing the confusion: a review of the criticisms relating to the environmental analysis of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023’ and discussing the implications of this study. |
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22 May 2024 | 12-1pm |
Patrick Miner will be presenting the results of the article ‘Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment’ and discussing the implications of this study. |
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8 May 2024 | 12-1pm |
Prof Martin White from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge will be presenting his team's work on "Avoiding conflicts of interest and reputational risks associated with population research on food and nutrition: the Food Research risK (FoRK) guidance and toolkit for researchers”. |
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10 April 2024 | 12-1pm |
Kate Lewis will be presenting the results of the article ‘Quantification of the effect of in-utero events on lifetime resilience in dairy cows’’ and discussing the implications of this study. |
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28 February 2024 | 1-2pm |
Prof. Lindsay Jaacks of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems will be leading an open discussion on the following article ‘The New Colonialist Food Economy: How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South’. |
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14 February 2024 | 12-1pm |
Sander Biesbroek will be presenting the results of the article ‘Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations’ and discussing the implications of this study. |
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31 January 2024 | 12-1pm |
Dr Wisdom Dogbe will be presenting the results of the article ‘Could taxes on foods high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) improve climate health and nutrition in Scotland?’ and discussing the implications of this study. |
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17 January 2024 | 12-1pm |
Peter Sandøe will be presenting the results of the article ‘Dairy cattle welfare–the relative effect of legislation, industry standards and labelled niche production in five European countries’ and discussing how dairy cattle welfare standards differ across the EU. |
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27 September 2023 | 12-1pm |
Carys Redman-White will be presenting the results of the recent article ‘A review of the predictors of antimicrobial use and resistance in European food animal production’. We hope that this report will lead to some interesting discussions about antimicrobial resistance, farm management practices, and the impacts on food systems. |
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11 October 2023 | 12-1pm |
Kirsty Paterson and Helen Hughes will be presenting the results of the recent article ‘Towards a farmer-feasible soil health assessment that is globally applicable’ and discussing current and future work on this topic. |
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25 October 2023 | 12-1pm |
Nathan Jensen will be presenting the results of the article ‘Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought’ and discussing current and future work on this topic. |
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8 November 2023 | 12-1pm |
The next Journal Club session will be in collaboration with FRIED, and we will be welcoming Dr Sylvia Mitchell, Senior Lecturer at The University of the West Indies. FRIED has provided the details below as well as supplementary reading before the talk. I am pleased to announce that the first of two FRIED events in November will be a joint seminar with the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems. This will a hybrid event taking place on Wednesday 8th November 12.00 to 13.30. Our speaker will be Dr Sylvia Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, Medicinal Plant Research Group, The Biotechnology Centre, at The University of the West Indies. Sylvia’s research includes development of medicinal plant monographs, in vitro physiology, on-farm research, plant tissue culture, and product development, working on plants such as ackee, bamboo, ginger, neem, pineapple, sarsaparilla, sweet potato, turmeric and yam. A copy of one of her recent publications is attached to this email and you can find out more about her work here. Title: Ethnobiotechnology: Tailoring Biotechnology Towards Sustainable and Equitable Development Abstract The emerging field of ethnobiotechnology seeks to develop a new paradigm in biotechnology, one that does not exploit but rather works with the caretakers of the world’s endangered and endemic biodiversity in the pursuit of sustainable and equitable development. With its emphasis on new knowledge (a requirement of patents), modern biotechnology tends to ignore traditional knowledge developed and sustained by local and indigenous communities over generations. Scientists working under the biotechnology paradigm tend to extract traditional knowledge and raw plant material from people and forests in biodiversity-rich tropical countries, patenting them as new in their countries without acknowledging the sources of their knowledge. Hans Sloane obtained a patent for making chocolate in 1687; yet the people from the Caribbean who shared their knowledge and plants with him remain nameless. More recently, research in biotechnology has been associated with the genetic modification of organisms and gene editing. Treated as a natural science, this form of biotechnology gleans little or no insight from Indigenous Studies, Development Studies, and other relevant fields in the social sciences and humanities. As with Sloan’s early biotechnology, the ultimate ends of this kind of research are the development of patents for new products such as foodstuffs, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. This paper aims to show how the science of biotechnology can be made compatible with the desires and needs of indigenous and local communities in the tropical biodiversity ‘hotspots’ of the world, with lessons shared from decades of ethnobiotechnology research in Jamaica. |
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22 November 2023 | 12-1pm |
Rebecca Grant will be presenting the results of the article ‘An Ecohealth approach to energy justice: Evidence from Malawi’s energy transition from biomass to electrification’ and discussing current and future work on this topic. |
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JOURNAL CLUB ARCHIVE 2022 |
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14th December 2022 | 12-1pm |
Dr Peter Alexander will present the following paper: ‘High energy and fertiliser prices are more damaging than food export curtailment from Ukraine and Russia for food prices, health and the environment.’ This paper has been accepted for publication in Nature Food but is not yet available on the website, so please find the accepted version attached, and a pre-print version here. |
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1st December 2022 | 12-1pm |
Dr Smaragda Tsairidou will present on the topic: ‘Towards Sustainable Aquaculture – Opportunities and Challenges.’ Smaragda will present her paper (at the following link) on cost-effective genomic selection for resistance to sea-lice, which was also featured in the Herald Scotland, as well as touching on other topics related to sustainable aquaculture. |
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16th November 2022 | 12-1pm |
Dr Rafael De Oliveira Silva will present the following paper (see the following link): “Rationalizing ex situ collection of reproductive materials for endangered livestock breed conservation.” |
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2nd November 2022 |
12-1pm | Prof. Jon Hillier will present his paper (see the following link): “The potential to reduce GHG emissions in egg production using a GHG calculator – A Cool Farm Tool case study.” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19th October 2022 |
12-1pm |
Dr Kirsteen Shields will present her paper: “Using property law to expand agroecology: Scotland’s land reforms based on human rights.” |
JOURNAL CLUB ARCHIVE 2021-22 |
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DATE | TIME | SPEAKER/TOPIC |
21st September 2021 | 2-3pm |
Dr Alfy Gathorne-Hardy and Daisy Martinez from GAAFS will discuss their recent paper in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, “When the Medicine Feeds the Problem; Do Nitrogen Fertilisers and Pesticides Enhance the Nutritional Quality of Crops for Their Pests and Pathogens?” |
5th October 2021 | 2-3pm |
We will be discussing a paper by Matias Hargreaves et al. (2021), which highlights collaborative research on agricultural technology adoption in a Mozambiquan village called Chitima. The field experience included planning, interviews and observation in a community facing severe food insecurity. Matias is currently doing a PhD in the Agroecosystem programme at the Federal University of Santa Catalina in Brazil. His current research area focuses on the social dynamics of agroecological transformation, regenerative farming, human-animal relations and animal welfare. |
19th October 2021 | 2-3pm |
Gabriel Marques from GAAFS will present the study, named "Evaluating environmental and economic trade-offs in cattle feed strategies using multiobjective optimization", this was recently accepted by the journal "Agricultural Systems". |
2nd November 2021 | 2-3pm | No Journal Club this week due to COP26 activity |
16th November 2021 | 2-3pm |
Jacqueline da Silva will present her recently accepted (and published by that date) paper "Greenhouse gas emissions, water footprint, and ecological footprint of food purchases according to their degree of processing in Brazilian metropolitan areas: a time-series study from 1987 to 2018". |
14th December 2021 |
2-3pm |
Prof. Lisa Boden will discuss the opinion paper: 'How a tiny bit of gender bias adds up to hurt women's careers'
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1 February 2022 | 2-3pm |
Dr. Lily Bliznashka (GAAFS) will present her study "Changes and challenges in markets for animal source foods: a qualitative study among market vendors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia". |
15 February 2022 |
2-3pm |
Dr Francesco Tubiello (ESS) will present his paper titled “Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions”. |
1 March 2022 | 2-3pm |
Prof. Baojing Gu from the College of Environmental and Resources Sciences of Zhejiang University will discuss one of his recent articles, which was recently published in the Nature Food Journal and is titled, "Consolidation of agricultural land can contribute to agricultural sustainability in China". |
15 March 2022 | 2-3pm |
"Professor Matthew Canfield, PhD, from Leiden University Law School will present his paper UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems". |
29 March 2022 | 2-3pm |
Tesfaye Hailu, a researcher at Ethiopian Public Health Institute and PhD candidate at Wageningen University, will present on a Methodology for developing and evaluating food-based dietary guidelines and a Healthy Eating Index for Ethiopia. |
12 April 2022 | 2-3pm |
"Professor Hannah Gosnell from Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences will present her paper "Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation". |
26 April 2022 | 2-3pm | Myrtille Lacoste will present paper Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation to transform global agriculture |
10 May 2022 | 2-3pm | Professor Sarah Bridle, PhD, Chair in Food, Climate and Society, University of York. |
14 June 2022 | 2-3pm |
Dr Mahmoud Eltholth, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Edinburgh. |
JOURNAL CLUB ARCHIVE 2020-21 |
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23 September | 2.30-3.30pm | Dr. Celine Bonnet, Director of Research at Institut national de la recherche pour l'agriculture et l'environnement (INRAE) within the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE-R), will join us to discuss her paper, “Viewpoint: Regulating meat consumption to improve health, the environment and animal welfare,” recently published in Food Policy |
7 October | 2-3pm |
Dr. Kirsteen Shields, Lecturer in International Law and Food Security, paper TBD |
21 October | 2-3pm |
Dr. Paolo Agnolucci, Associate Professor, Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources at University College London, will join us to discuss his paper, “Impacts of rising temperatures and farm management practices on global yields of 18 crops,” recently published in Nature Food, co-authored by Dr. Peter Alexander of GAAFS |
4 November | 2-3pm |
Dr Rafael De Oliveira Silva, Chancellor’s Fellow, GAAFS, “Fire, deforestation, and livestock: when the smoke clears,” recently published in Land Use Policy |
18 November | 2-3pm | Dr. Arindam Samaddar, International Rice Research Institute, “Capturing diversity and cultural drivers of food choice in eastern India,” recently published in the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science |
2 December | 2-3pm |
Yanik Nyberg from Seawater Solutions will be presenting an overview of their work followed by a discussion of potential academic research partnerships |
16 December | 2-3pm | Prof. Dominic Moran, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, GAAFS, will discuss the paper, “Food politics and development” by Melissa Leach et al., published in World Development |
13 January | 2-3pm |
Dr Taddese Zerfu, Train@Ed Fellow, GAAFS, will discuss his work in progress, “The effect(s) of livestock farming on the nutritional and health status of children and women in low and middle-income settings” |
27 January | 2-3pm | Prof. Rosa Maria Poch discussing her paper “Soil: the Great Connector of Our Lives Now and Beyond COVID-19.” |
10 February | 2-3pm | Dr. Lindsay Jaacks, Chancellor’s Fellow, GAAFS, “Association of prenatal pesticide exposures with adverse pregnancy outcomes and stunting in rural Bangladesh,” published in Environment International |
24 February | 2-3pm |
Pietro Barbieri will discuss his conference paper, "Could N availability limit organic farming expansion at the global scale?" |
10 March | 2-3pm |
Dr. Stephen Mackenzie, Research Fellow in AMR in Poultry Supply Chains, will discuss his paper, “Changes in the environmental impacts of pig production systems in Great Britain over the last 18 years" |
24 March | 1-2pm |
Discussion session on “United Kingdom’s fruit and vegetable supply is increasingly dependent on imports from climate-vulnerable producing countries,” published in Nature Food by Pauline Scheelbeek, Cami Moss, Thomas Kastner, Carmelia Alae-Carew, Stephanie Jarmul, Rosemary Green, Anna Taylor, Andy Haines & Alan Dangour. |
21 April | 2-3pm |
Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz, Lecturer in Anthropology of Development, and Mackenzie Klema, Research Assistant (Displacement And Modern Slavery), will discuss their work-in-progress paper exploring hospitality and food security using remote ethnographic research. |
5 May | 2-3pm |
We will discuss the pre-print, “How One Pandemic Led To Another: Asfv, the Disruption Contributing To Sars-Cov-2 Emergence in Wuhan,” by Wei Xia, Joseph Hughes, David Robertson, and Xiowei Jiang. |
19 May | 2-3pm |
Prof. Joyce Tait, Co-Director Innogen Institute, University of Edinburgh, will present her paper, “Responsible Innovation: its role in an era of technological and regulatory transformation,” published in Engineering Biology |