🎉Congratulations to Theresa Cassandra Saini for being awarded the John Innes Foundation-funded Nuffield International Farming scholarship. Her work will investigate the global best practices in establishing local capacity for producing clean, disease-free cassava planting materials.

This summer, Deimantė Daujotaite conducted her fieldwork with Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Njoro, a global expert for wheat rust research. Deima worked to understand what Kenyan farmers need from new wheat varieties. nisd.ac.uk/socio-econom...

🎉NISD intern Georgia Oliver has been awarded Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association Norfolk International Scholarship to study environmental schemes internationally. She will compare UK schemes, such as SFI and ELMS with schemes in other countries to inform UK policy 🚜 nisd.ac.uk/nisd-intern-...

👩‍💻 Catch up with our seminar from Dr Cary Fowler in this blog from Theresa Cassandra Saini. "Global food systems are not on track to meet food and nutritional needs around the world [...] there are strategic, urgent, and essential actions we can take to counter these risks." tinyurl.com/2czb65r6

Join us 18 June at UEA for the 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture: “Exploring the contours of feminist political ecology” @thenisd.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Voices from Norfolk and beyond on land, justice & hope. 🎟️ Free, but booking required: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

There's a great event coming 18 June with @gejgroup.bsky.social and @developmentuea.bsky.social - "Exploring the contours of feminist political ecology: Dialogues in the Norfolk Landscape” A keynote from Rebecca Elmhirst, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton More details👇

📅📢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

🗓️ Save the date: 2024 World Food Prize Foundation Winner Dr Cary Fowler is giving this year's John Innes Foundation Lecture at @johninnescentre.bsky.social Centre on 23 May "Trends – Trouble – Tenacity: The food security picture for 2050" More information👇 nisd.ac.uk/event/trends...

🎉 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...

Join our Director Nitya Rao next week for 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 required. More details 👇 nisd.ac.uk/event/accele...

Working with @thenisd.bsky.social helps me put my #marine #ecosystem #sustainability work in a broader context and I value the collaborations greatly. Ecology [oîkos] is all about relationships - we are all organisms in an environment

📢 Call for Papers & Delegates! Join us for #Gender & #Development: Debates for a Changing World 📅 19-20 June 2025, UEA, Norwich 📝 Submit your abstract by 21 March: [email protected]

💻 You can now watch online Emily Norton's seminar with us on the future of UK farming. A fantastic insight on the major pressures UK agriculture and some potential paths ahead 🚜 youtu.be/DfqOVJAYV98?...

🐟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 🌊

Very happy that Cefas' parent ministry Defra published my blog on #gender in #fisheries for #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience. We need better understanding of gender/social equity across seafood value chains. Read the original paper here www.nature.com/articles/s43... @thenisd.bsky.social

🚜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...

Excited to share our Nature Scientific Data publication! NISD members were involved in the assembly of the #genome of African yam bean, a protein-rich, climate-resilient opportunity crop using @nanoporetech.com This unlocks potential for advanced breeding and food security. Read more: bit.ly/4jnDm1h

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

🎉 NISD PhD student Manasa Sharma of @developmentuea.bsky.social & Tyndall Centre is a UEA 2025 Change Makers finalist Her project TerraBite helps Indian farmers thrive despite climate change 🧑‍🌾 Here's a overview of Terrabite and where you can vote: woobox.com/z6n2by/galle...

👨‍🏫🖥️Great seminar 12pm Thursday: "Biocultural heritage territories & Indigenous values: Scaling out the Potato Park decolonial approach?" by Krystyna Swiderska of @iisd.bsky.social Hosted by @developmentuea.bsky.social and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Join 👉 us02web.zoom.us/j/82007604477

🥗🔮We welcomed Dr Tara Garnett of @oxmartinschool.bsky.social to our Thought Leader Seminar Series last week, exploring visions of the future of food. You can now watch the recording of that seminar online: youtu.be/89z3Y0L-Qhs?...

In light of #UNCCDCOP16, NISD highlights our work in sustainable soil management, breeding of wheat varieties; key to combating desertification. Insights from Prof. Rattan Lal also show how healthy soils boost food security, mitigate climate change, and restore ecosystems. Link: bit.ly/3AVaGM4

Starting at 12 (GMT) today in ZICER 2.03, UEA, Norwich Here's the link to register and join online.: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d56dee...

⏰ Join us this Thursday at 12pm (GMT) Dr Tara Garnett of the Environmental Change Institute & @oxmartinschool.bsky.social on how to achieve more constructive and inclusive decision making for better futures. Attend in person at UEA or online via registration. Details 👇 nisd.ac.uk/event/whats-...

🎧 Listen to a SciDev.Net podcast on a project we're involved in, on disease-resistant and biofortified wheat varieties in Egypt, Kenya & Pakistan We're researching the drivers and translational ecosystem for new variety uptake across each country, by gender & age 🧑‍🌾🚚🍞 www.scidev.net/global/podca...

Young people are central to food system change, yet they are often excluded from sustainability planning, their voices and actions absent in policy drafting. Here we discuss the barriers and how young people can become immediate and capable leaders for change. nisd.ac.uk/why-we-must-...

Join us 12PM Nov 28 with Prof. Tara Garnett of the Environmental Change Institute & Oxford Martin School on what 'better' looks like in food system change, and what we need to get there 🥗✨ Based in ZICER 2.03, UEA or viewable online - all welcome to attend. More info 👇 nisd.ac.uk/event/whats-...