📅📢RESCHEDULE: Please note our seminar with Alan Spearot on enabling sustainable access to high value markets will no longer take place this Thursday (29 May), and instead will be arranged for a future date, which we share as soon as we have an update.

Join us 29 May with Alan Spearot of University of California, Santa Cruz and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) speaking on "Enabling Sustainable Access to High Value Markets: Maize Cooperatives in Rwanda"

⌚ 12pm
📍 ZICER 0.01, UEA
✔️ Join in person or online

All welcome

🎉 We are delighted to announce that 2024 World Food Prize Foundation Winner Dr Cary Fowler will give our 2025 John Innes Foundation lecture this May.

The lecture will take place:
🗓️ 13:30 (BST) 23 May
📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social Conference centre

More details soon!

🎉 We're proud to welcome Prof. Maren Duvendack as an NISD member, building on many years of close working. Great to have Maren working with us to enhance the impact of our research.

Maren is based at @developmentuea.bsky.social focusing on financial inclusion, gender & smallholder agriculture

🧑‍💻 Join us today at 12pm: Could computational breakthroughs guide more sustainable farming and fisheries? A chance to develop more cross-disciplinary collaborations 💡🤝

⏰ Today 12pm (GMT)
💻 Virtual seminar

Link to register 👉 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/43fb47...

Seminar next week: Could computational breakthroughs guide more sustainable farming and fisheries? 🧑‍💻🥗

Join us with Beatriz De La Iglesia and Michal Mackiewicz of the University of East Anglia School of Computing Sciences

⏰ 12pm (GMT)
📆 27 March

Register to join 👉https://tinyurl.com/4ww5ewra

👩🥗 Nitya Rao's University of East Anglia Lasdun lecture is now available to watch on Accelerating Action towards Gender Justice ​for Climate and Food.

Watch the presentation 👉 lnkd.in/eFCvBqQk

⏰Join us this Thursday: Prof Nitya Rao gives the University of East Anglia 2025 Lasdun Lecture on "accelerating action towards gender justice for climate and food" 👩🥗

🗓️ 13 March
⌚ 18:30 (GMT)
📌 In person and online. All welcome

Registration 👉 nisd.ac.uk/event/accele...

🐟Meet NISD member @wormbotherer.bsky.social A Principal Marine Ecologist at Cefas & Assoc. Prof at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Julie specialises in biodiversity, marine food & climate change. Her work bridges science, policy & industry to drive sustainable marine resource use 🌊

🚜UK farming is at a crossroads for the future of food production and land management. Join us and @developmentuea.bsky.social with Emily Norton at 2pm on Thursday to discuss what is needed for the way forward.

📆 13th Feb
⏰ 2 PM GMT

In-person or online, more details 👉
nisd.ac.uk/event/farmin...

Join us for a seminar on the future of UK farming 🚜

Emily Norton dives into England's food and farming landscape, exploring tensions, opportunities, and the 25-year vision for farming at a time of change.

📆 13th Feb
⏰ 2 PM GMT

In-person or online, more details 👉
nisd.ac.uk/event/farmin...

Meet NISD’s Matthew Osborne! Based between Biodiversity and Sustainability Solutions (BASS) and @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, Matthew’s research takes a transdisciplinary approach combining behavioural science, experimental methods, and service design approaches to address complex global challenges.

Underutilized crops hold untapped potential for resilient food systems. A new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper, co-authored by NISD’s Peter Emmrich, calls for genomics & traditional knowledge to drive sustainable innovation.

Read more: go.nature.com/49zftPR

#crops #food #innovation #sustainability

How can we prepare the next generation for the climate crisis? NISD Intern & @developmentuea.bsky.social student, Sophie Wheeler’s review of the UK’s DfE strategy highlights the need for an interdisciplinary approach to climate education.
Read more: bit.ly/4fJuy37

#climateeducation #climatechange

Women are the backbone of post-harvest fisheries, yet face systemic inequities. A new NISD review with @naturefood.bsky.social explores how tech: traditional, community-based, and factory impacts women’s roles, health, and agency. Policies must prioritize inclusion.

Read more: bit.ly/4irEMHN

#fish

Meet Mairi Franklin, NISD’s newest member and JIC researcher. From CRISPR to legumes, she is advancing tools for sustainable farming with a focus on impact. Mairi says, it’s about plants and the people growing them.

Discover her groundbreaking work: bit.ly/4it33NG

#agriculture #biotechnology #food