SEMINAR: Reframing Innovation: Decolonial, Feminist and Indigenous Pathways to Ecological Transition (CAWR PhD Showcase) with Lucas Worsdell, Catarina Angioni, & Katie Mills 📆 Wednesday 29th April 2026 🕓 11 - 12.30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/3ZFfbDa

Reminder: Hybrid seminar: SCALE-it: empowering farmers to improve organic systems with Leonardo Faedo, Ulrich Schmutz, Adrian Evans and Judith Conroy 📆 Thursday 26th March 2026 🕓 11:00am - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/4r3DeHR

Hybrid Seminar - Planting Liberation: Black Urban Ecology and Food Justice with Ruqaiyah Jarviton 📆 Wednesday 22nd April 2026 🕓 11:00 - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/46uxGxU

🤔 Have you already used the CamAlien Viewer? 🗺️ It is a map service that allows you to see where specific #InvasiveAlienSpecies have been spotted and further identify them through the pictures taken by #CamAlien. 💡 Try it now: camalien.ecoscience.dk

Reminder for hybrid seminar: Blocking media – is there a peat-free solution? with Francis Rayns, Judith Conroy, Leonardo Faedo, Ulrich Schmutz, Margi Lennartsson 📆 Thursday 5th March 2026 🕓 13:30 - 14:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/4q2lCLW

CAWR's Leonardo Faedo has received an award & seed funding (€ 2000) from FIAMO to host 2 workshops, in Groningen, Netherlands & Bucharest, Romania. As part of the Subtle Agroecologies research, they will focus on the use of homeopathic & biodynamic preparations in agriculture.

The Seminar recording for 'The Sitatunga River Corridor, Kenya - A Model for Community-Led Conservation' with Sam Forsyth and Tony Binns is now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2n_jTlAE4I

Led by team members from Coventry University (Claire Lyons, Barbara Smith, Alex Franklin & Lindy Binder) and TEHRA, the free Care-full Courses and Resources platform from PLANET4B is designed to bring nature and society closer: https://www.care-full-courses.com/

CAWR Researchers Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Helen Bayliss & Alex Lowther-Harris attended the OneSTOP Project Annual Meeting in Almería, Spain, 19th-22nd Jan. There were productive break-out sessions, a field trip looking at invasive & endemic species & opportunities for informal exchange.

SEMINAR TOMORROW: The Sitatunga River Corridor, Kenya – A Model for Community-Led River Restoration and Sustainable Development with Sam Forsyth & Prof Tony Binns 📆 Wed 18th February 2026 🕓 11:00am - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Register here: https://bit.ly/4pE5y1O

In December Barbara Smith & Ffion Thomas headed to Edinburgh for the British Ecological Society Annual Conference. Barbara gave a presentation on the need for collaboration between arts & science for ecological restoration & Ffion presented a poster on ash dieback disease based on her PhD research.

Reminder for the Hybrid seminar: Blocking media – is there a peat-free solution? with Francis Rayns, Judith Conroy, Leonardo Faedo, Ulrich Schmutz, Margi Lennartsson 📆 Thursday 5th March 2026 🕓 13:30 - 14:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/4q2lCLW

At the ORFC Claire Lyons & Charlotte Southall organised the 1st ever session on viticulture 'Resilient Vineyards: Practice, Viability, Market Strategy' chaired by Claire, exploring how vineyards can remain viable while working with organic, biodynamic & regenerative low input systems.

Next weeks Hybrid seminar: The Sitatunga River Corridor, Kenya – A Model for Community-Led River Restoration and Sustainable Development with Sam Forsyth & Prof Tony Binns 📆 Wed 18th February 2026 🕓 11:00am - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Register here: https://bit.ly/4pE5y1O

Leo Faedo & Charlotte Southall, joined Lawrence Woodward OBE & Innovative Farmer Pat Aherne in the ORFC panel - How Homeopathy Can Improve Health & Resilience in Agriculture. With a focus on agroecosystem health & the management of the agricultural organism with the use of homeopathic preparations.

At the ORFC Chiara Tornaghi and team ran a session titled "Cooking up justice and joy in the Landed Community Kitchen", an emerging novel infrastructure for food system transformation, that brings together local agroecological producers & food sovereignty-oriented kitchens.

CAWR were active across a range of sessions at the ORFC, 8-9 Jan 2026. They also had an exhibition stand where they shared details of the recently launched SCALE-it & WINN ORGANIC projects. On the Fri, Julia Wright chaired a session on Subtle Technologies for Agroecological Farms of the Future.

🚀 The WATERSENS website is live! Discover our project goals, demo sites 🇪🇸 🇬🇷 🇵🇹 🇿🇦, key results, blog, sister projects & our first infographics — with more to come! 👏 Thanks to Three o’clock for the great design. Working on #watermanagement or #naturebasedsulutions? Stay connected! 👉 www.watersens.eu

Alex Franklin, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz and James Bennett attended #IPBES12's Stakeholder Day and the opening of the Plenary in Manchester this week, where they showcased DAISY_HorizonEurope and OneSTOP#IPBES12projects. The IPBES 12th Plenary focuses on Business and Biodiversity.

If you wanted to catch up on any of our previous seminars then take a look at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CAWRCoventryUniversity

Hybrid seminar: SCALE-it: empowering farmers to improve organic systems with Leonardo Faedo, Ulrich Schmutz, Adrian Evans and Judith Conroy 📆 Thursday 26th March 2026 🕓 11:00am - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/4r3DeHR

🌿 Helen Roy and @inadehn.bsky.social are attending #IPBES12 and will present a poster on OneSTOP during the Stakeholder Day today 🔎 Learn more about how OneSTOP contributes to the enhanced management of #InvasiveAlienSpecies in our blogpost: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop...

Reminder: Hybrid seminar: The Sitatunga River Corridor, Kenya – A Model for Community-Led River Restoration and Sustainable Development with Sam Forsyth & Prof Tony Binns 📆 Wed 18th February 2026 🕓 11:00am - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Register here: https://bit.ly/4pE5y1O

In Dec CAWR's Liliane Binego, Sue Charlesworth & Jana Fried (PI) visited Dr Kirsty Carden & team at the Future Water Research Institute at the University of Cape Town as part of their British Academy funded ISPoSA project. The visit enabled preparations for fieldwork in March.

If you’re visiting London this year, there’s still plenty of time to visit the Future of Food Exhibition at the Science Museum. It runs until September 2026 and tickets are free. CAWR’s Director, Professor Moya Kneafsey was a member of the advisory group: https://bit.ly/3NatXyz

Hybrid seminar: The Sitatunga River Corridor, Kenya – A Model for Community-Led River Restoration and Sustainable Development with Sam Forsyth & Prof Tony Binns 📆 Wed 18th February 2026 🕓 11:00am - 12:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/4pE5y1O

The exciting new Elgar Encyclopedia of Food & Society features a number of contributors from CAWR, past & present. Discount code EEFS40 is active for hardcopy orders through the publisher’s website & provides a 40% discount valid until the end of Jan: https://bit.ly/3N3bhkl

Last chance to book 🌿 Join the Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 on 14 Jan for cutting-edge garden science — from ponds & pollinators to fungi and urban mammals, with expert speakers from across the UK. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717... @jeffollerton.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social

In Dec CAWR & Garden Organic got together to celebrate Dr Margi Lennartsson on her retirement. Margi joined Garden Organic in 1987 for almost 30 years before moving to CAWR. Many well-wishers turned up. Margi will continue her association with CAWR as an Honorary Research Fellow.

An advertisement for a fully funded PhD position has just been posted on Find A PhD. The applications close Thursday 15th January. To find out more and to apply see here: https://bit.ly/4qwK6gR

On Dec 2-5th, CAWR PGR David Anene attended the Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry Observations & Modelling Conference (ACCOMC 2025) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He presented his research on the health effects of microplastics from face masks.

🌱 2026 is already here, and we are excited to see what it brings! 📽️ Take a look back at what we did in 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03y... #BioInvasions #IAS

Hybrid seminar: Blocking media – is there a peat-free solution? with Francis Rayns, Judith Conroy, Leonardo Faedo, Ulrich Schmutz, Margi Lennartsson 📆 Thursday 5th March 2026 🕓 13:30 - 14:30 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: https://bit.ly/4q2lCLW

The Green4all partnership led by Coventry City Council is part of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Nature in Towns & Cities Programme (NiTC). Starting in May 2026, this 12-month MRes studentship includes fees and stipend, for more details & how to apply see: https://bit.ly/4rqbeyR

If you wanted to catch up on any of our previous seminars then take a look at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CAWRCoventryUniversity

Ivan Kourtchev gave an interview on PFAS pollution to Capital radio Midlands and Innovations News Network on 5th of November. A part of the interview can be found here: https://bit.ly/3MCZHfm

Prof Sue Charlesworth has collaborated with Drs Kevin Winter & Kirsty Carden from the Uni of Cape Town for over 10 years at the Water Hub. In acknowledgement of funded projects they have worked on together, a banner including CAWR & other partners has been erected on the site.

Jonathan Eden contributed to the State of Wildfires 2024–25 report as part of an international consortium of experts. This 2nd annual global assessment documents when & where extreme wildfires occurred, their impacts & the role of climate change: https://bit.ly/4rtmASH

Mobilising multilateral action is essential for water security. A new policy brief from the UK Committee for International Hydrology (UKCIH) calls for coherent global action as billions face worsening water challenges. Read it here ➡️ www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... [PDF] 💧🧪 1/

Ivan Kourtchev received £3200 from the ITSS Equipment Sharing Fund to access the proteomics facilities at Warwick University. Access will allow PGR Dimple Pathania to investigate protein modifications in pollen exposed to anthropogenic pollutants, as part of the ongoing PhD project.

Between 26 Oct-1 Nov, Dr Lovemore Gwiriri travelled to Botswana as part of the CLIPS-Africa project, where he & project partners were trained in using a Laser Methane Detector for estimating Green House Gas Emissions (GHGEs) & on small-scale Black Soldier Fly production.

The recording for the Seminar: Agroecological Innovations in Alternative Grain Systems with Chris Maughan and Leo Faedo is now available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/tidVnRUXW2I

On 27-28 November, Julia Wright participated in the Symposium: Resilience on Biodynamic Farms, Challenges and Opportunities. Held on Juchowo Farm -Poland, Julia’s keynote speech discussed the potential for developing a postmodern, Biodynamic Agricultural Knowledge System.

Publication Spotlight: Has Agroecology lost the Plot? A Literature Review of Agroecology in the Caribbean https://bit.ly/4pma71q This article was recently published in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

On Weds 12th Nov the Coventry & Warwickshire OneSTOP Living Lab held a 2nd meeting at CAWR. Lab members discussed first results from the experimental automatic moth recording, the use of models in invasion biology, potential uses of AI for invasive species management & ideas for future tools.

Tomorrow's Hybrid seminar:Agroecological Innovations in Alternative Grain Systems with Chris Maughan and Leo Faedo 📆 Thursday 11th December 2025 🕓 11:00 - 12:00 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: http://bit.ly/4opEEuX

The Green4all partnership led by Coventry City Council is part of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Nature in Towns & Cities Programme (NiTC). Starting in May 2026, this 12-month MRes studentship includes fees & stipend, see more here: https://bit.ly/4rqbeyR

4-6th of Nov, CAWR researchers attended the SCALE-it annual consortium meeting in Granada, Spain. Plans were refined for 65 on-farm trials of alternatives to contentious inputs in organic farming & horticulture. Keep up to date with their newsletter: https://scale-it-organic.eu/newsletter/

CAWR contributed to the Status of Mediterranean Forests report, by the Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN. PhD Carolina Gallo Granizo coordinated the chapter Fire management in the Mediterranean, with contributions from Jonathan Eden & Bastien Dieppois: https://bit.ly/4891DEN

1 weeks to go for the Hybrid seminar:Agroecological Innovations in Alternative Grain Systems with Chris Maughan and Leo Faedo 📆 Thursday 11th December 2025 🕓 11:00 - 12:00 pm UK Time zone (GMT) Click here to register: http://bit.ly/4opEEuX