The document discusses a presentation given at the University of Gloucestershire on exploring effective farming policies and prospects for an agricultural "Horticultural Belt" in Gloucestershire. It examines recommendations to establish a food strategy council and designate land areas as a Horticultural Belt to support small-scale, sustainable farming through a cooperative guild model. Future work would research farmer interest and consult stakeholders on opportunities for policy changes to support local food systems and agroecology.
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Oceans & Fisheries work aims to increase the health and productivity of coastal fisheries by replacing unsustainable fishing practices with innovative approaches that recognize the full, long-term value of sustainable marine ecosystems and that improve the economic, nutritional, and social conditions of the poor and vulnerable people whose well-being depends on these near-shore fisheries.
A global strategy for fuel free cooking Paul Arveson
Solar cooking is the cheapest, cleanest and safest way to cook food. Here we present a strategy for scaling up solar cooking in sunny regions around the world.
In a presentation given at the School of Economic Science’s annual colloquium, STWR outlined why the principle of sharing – as practiced in families and communities since the dawn of civilisation – should be placed at the forefront of policymaking in order to address the social, environmental and security crises that humanity now faces. Read the full transcript at: http://www.stwr.org/economic-sharing-alternatives/one-world-one-wealth.html
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Oceans & Fisheries work aims to increase the health and productivity of coastal fisheries by replacing unsustainable fishing practices with innovative approaches that recognize the full, long-term value of sustainable marine ecosystems and that improve the economic, nutritional, and social conditions of the poor and vulnerable people whose well-being depends on these near-shore fisheries.
A global strategy for fuel free cooking Paul Arveson
Solar cooking is the cheapest, cleanest and safest way to cook food. Here we present a strategy for scaling up solar cooking in sunny regions around the world.
In a presentation given at the School of Economic Science’s annual colloquium, STWR outlined why the principle of sharing – as practiced in families and communities since the dawn of civilisation – should be placed at the forefront of policymaking in order to address the social, environmental and security crises that humanity now faces. Read the full transcript at: http://www.stwr.org/economic-sharing-alternatives/one-world-one-wealth.html
Adam Parsons: Sharing the Commons: Wealth, Power and Natural Resources Moral Economy
Adam Parsons: Sharing the Commons: Wealth, Power and Natural Resources. A presentation at the TheIU.org 2013 Conference 'Economics for Conscious Evolution', London, UK, July 2013.
This presentation was given at The International Union for Land Value Taxation (theIU.org) conference on 25th July 2013 at The School of Economic Science in London. The theme of the day was 'Sharing the Commons', hosted as part of a 5-day conference under the heading: 'Economics for Conscious Evolution: A Geo-Justice Conference'. See here for a link to the video footage: http://www.stwr.org/economic-sharing-alternatives/sharing-the-commons-wealth-power-and-natural-resources.html
Water as a Human Right for Sustainable Development Goals. gwiwater
The 7th MDG (7C) focused on halving the proportion of the population without access to clean water and sanitation services is not a reality for many vulnerable people in rural dryland areas and post-conflict countries.
The right to access to water is key to achieving environmental sustainability, overall peace, and a scalable economy worldwide
http://www.fao.org/indigenous-peoples/en/
General presentation on the work FAO is doing with indigenous peoples. This work has been structured in 6 pillars, which emanate from a meeting between FAO senior management, FAO staff and indigenous peoples’ representatives in February 2015.
Keynote Speech: The importance and prospect of Globally Important Agricultura...ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/giahs/en/
This presentation was presented during the Joint Meeting of Steering and Scientific Commitee that took place at FAO headquarters 28-29 April 2015. The presentation was made by Prof. Wenhua Li, Academician, Director, CNACH, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of GIAHS Steering Committee
UN Women/FAO/IFAD/WFP Expert group meeting (Sept. 2017) summary reportIFPRI-PIM
This presentation was given by Barbara van Koppen (IWMI), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Sensitization on Agroecology and Agrobiodiversity Integration in Higher Educa...ICCASA
Presented by Martin Oulu, Ph.D at the ISFAA SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP ON AGROECOLOGY AND AGROBIODIVERSITY INTEGRATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA.
Sustainable Social Development, introduction and process in India. and it also focuses on the current trends. Application of Social Work through the sustainable development process
Ecosystems are the "natural capital" of our economy and our world, providing valuable goods and services, but as consumption grows along with populations and their spending power, many ecosystems are struggling to keep pace.
- Anne-Marie Culhane, Artist and community activist -
Be inspired by award-winning projects that engage
communities creatively and explore how similar projects
could work in your communities.
Dr. Gale Buchanan - Agricultural Productivity Strategies for the Future: Addr...John Blue
Agricultural Productivity Strategies for the Future: Addressing U.S. and Global Challenges - Dr. Gale Buchanan, Dean and Director Emeritus, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The University of Georgia; former Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, from the 2010 Animal Ag Alliance Stakeholder's Summit: Truth, Lies and Videotape: Is Activism Jeopardizing Our Food Security?, April 28 - 29, 2010, Washington, DC, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/home/conference/2010-animal-ag-alliance-stakeholders-summit
Presentation by Heather Shepherd from National Flood Forum regarding Flood Community & Recovery Support. Presented at Natural Flood Management conference January 25th 2017 at University of Gloucestershire. Hosted by CCRI and Stroud District Council
Adam Parsons: Sharing the Commons: Wealth, Power and Natural Resources Moral Economy
Adam Parsons: Sharing the Commons: Wealth, Power and Natural Resources. A presentation at the TheIU.org 2013 Conference 'Economics for Conscious Evolution', London, UK, July 2013.
This presentation was given at The International Union for Land Value Taxation (theIU.org) conference on 25th July 2013 at The School of Economic Science in London. The theme of the day was 'Sharing the Commons', hosted as part of a 5-day conference under the heading: 'Economics for Conscious Evolution: A Geo-Justice Conference'. See here for a link to the video footage: http://www.stwr.org/economic-sharing-alternatives/sharing-the-commons-wealth-power-and-natural-resources.html
Water as a Human Right for Sustainable Development Goals. gwiwater
The 7th MDG (7C) focused on halving the proportion of the population without access to clean water and sanitation services is not a reality for many vulnerable people in rural dryland areas and post-conflict countries.
The right to access to water is key to achieving environmental sustainability, overall peace, and a scalable economy worldwide
http://www.fao.org/indigenous-peoples/en/
General presentation on the work FAO is doing with indigenous peoples. This work has been structured in 6 pillars, which emanate from a meeting between FAO senior management, FAO staff and indigenous peoples’ representatives in February 2015.
Keynote Speech: The importance and prospect of Globally Important Agricultura...ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/giahs/en/
This presentation was presented during the Joint Meeting of Steering and Scientific Commitee that took place at FAO headquarters 28-29 April 2015. The presentation was made by Prof. Wenhua Li, Academician, Director, CNACH, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of GIAHS Steering Committee
UN Women/FAO/IFAD/WFP Expert group meeting (Sept. 2017) summary reportIFPRI-PIM
This presentation was given by Barbara van Koppen (IWMI), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Sensitization on Agroecology and Agrobiodiversity Integration in Higher Educa...ICCASA
Presented by Martin Oulu, Ph.D at the ISFAA SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP ON AGROECOLOGY AND AGROBIODIVERSITY INTEGRATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA.
Sustainable Social Development, introduction and process in India. and it also focuses on the current trends. Application of Social Work through the sustainable development process
Ecosystems are the "natural capital" of our economy and our world, providing valuable goods and services, but as consumption grows along with populations and their spending power, many ecosystems are struggling to keep pace.
- Anne-Marie Culhane, Artist and community activist -
Be inspired by award-winning projects that engage
communities creatively and explore how similar projects
could work in your communities.
Dr. Gale Buchanan - Agricultural Productivity Strategies for the Future: Addr...John Blue
Agricultural Productivity Strategies for the Future: Addressing U.S. and Global Challenges - Dr. Gale Buchanan, Dean and Director Emeritus, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The University of Georgia; former Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, from the 2010 Animal Ag Alliance Stakeholder's Summit: Truth, Lies and Videotape: Is Activism Jeopardizing Our Food Security?, April 28 - 29, 2010, Washington, DC, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/home/conference/2010-animal-ag-alliance-stakeholders-summit
Presentation by Heather Shepherd from National Flood Forum regarding Flood Community & Recovery Support. Presented at Natural Flood Management conference January 25th 2017 at University of Gloucestershire. Hosted by CCRI and Stroud District Council
We have two great organisations hosting FOSS4G this year: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation and LocationTech. Putting on a great event is not the primary responsibility of these software foundations - supporting our great open source software is!
This talk will introduce OSGeo and LocationTech, and balance the tricky topic of comparison for those interested in what each organisation offers and identifying possibilities for collaboration.
Each of these software foundations has an “incubation” process setup to onboard new projects. This incubation process matches the organization's priorities and will address many factors important to you, and few ideas you may not of considered yet.
This talks draws the incubation experience of:
* GeoServer (OSGeo), GeoTools (OSGeo),
* GeoGig (LocationTech), uDig (LocationTech)
If you are an open source developer interested in joining a foundation we will cover some of the resource, marking and infrastructure benefits that may be a factor for consideration. We will also looking into some of the long term benefits a software foundation provides both you and importantly users of your software.
If you are a team members faced with the difficult choice of selecting open source technologies this talk can help. We can learn a lot about the risks associated with open source based on how each foundation seeks to protect you. The factors a software foundation considers for its projects provide useful criteria you can use to evaluate any projects.
Processing Geospatial at Scale at LocationTechRob Emanuele
These slides were for a talk at EclipseCon Europe 2015, about LocationTech projects that provide capabilities of processing geospatial data at scale. Video of the talk should be released at some point through the Eclipse Foundation.
GeoMesa presentation from LocationTech Tour - DC - November, 14th 2013. Presented by Anthony Fox (@algoriffic) of CCRi.
GeoMesa is an open source project providing spatio-temporal indexing, querying, and visualizing capabilities to Accumulo. Learn more at http://geomesa.github.io/
LocationTech is an Eclipse Foundation industry working group for location aware technologies. This presentation introduces LocationTech, looks at what it means for our industry and the participating projects.
Libraries: JTS Topology Suite is the rocket science of GIS providing an implementation of Geometry. Mobile Map Tools provides a C++ foundation that is translated into Java and Javascript for maps on iOS, Andriod and WebGL. GeoMesa is a distributed key/value store based on Accumulo. Spatial4j integrates with JTS to provide Geometry on curved surface.
Process: GeoTrellis real-time distributed processing used scala, akka and spark. GeoJinni mixes spatial data/indexing with Hadoop.
Applications: GEOFF offers OpenLayers 3 as a SWT component. GeoGit distributed revision control for feature data. GeoScipt brings spatial data to Groovy, JavaScript, Python and Scala. uDig offers an eclipse based desktop GIS solution.
Attend this presentation if want to know what LocationTech is about, are interested in these projects or curious about what projects will be next.
Enabling Access to Big Geospatial Data with LocationTech and Apache projectsRob Emanuele
LocationPowers OGC BigGeoData 2016
This presentation will discuss tools in the open source landscape that are used to handle big geospatial data. In particular, we will focus on how Apache frameworks such as Spark and Accumulo are "geospatially enabled" by four projects: GeoTrellis, GeoWave, GeoMesa, and GeoJinni. These four projects all participate in LocationTech, a working group under the Eclipse Foundation. In particular, we will discuss how each of these LocationTech technologies implement spatial indexing (e.g. by using space filling curves) in order to provide quick access to data, and other common themes among the four projects. Attendees should walk away from this presentation understanding important parts of the Apache big data ecosystem, a set of LocationTech projects that belong to the cutting edge of enabling those Apache project's handling of geospatial data, as well as some solutions to common problems when dealing with large geospatial data.
Accumulo Summit 2016: GeoMesa: Using Accumulo for Optimized Spatio-Temporal P...Accumulo Summit
LocationTech GeoMesa is a project that builds on open-source, distributed databases like Accumulo, HBase, and Cassandra to scale up indexing, querying, and analyzing billions of spatio-temporal data points. GeoMesa uses space-filling curves to index multi-dimensional data in Accumulo, and we'll discuss recent improvements for non-point geometries. Over the two and a half years GeoMesa has been an open-source project, GeoMesa's Accumulo schemas have evolved and our team has had a chance to work through creating and optimizing custom Accumulo iterators. These custom iterators allow for better query performance and interesting aggregations. GeoMesa provides support for distributed processing in Spark via MapReduce input and output formats that extend their Accumulo counterparts. We will discuss the performance benefit gained by reducing the number of default map/Spark tasks created for complex query patterns. The talk will conclude with updates about GeoMesa's integration with Jupyter notebook and improvements to GeoMesa's Spark integration.
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Dr. James Hughes
Mathematician, Commonwealth Computer Research, Inc (CCRi)
Dr. James Hughes is a mathematician at Commonwealth Computer Research, Inc. in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a core committer for GeoMesa which leverages Accumulo and other distributed database systems to provide distributed computation and query engines. He is a LocationTech committer for GeoMesa, SFCurve, and GeoBench. He serves on the LocationTech Project Management Committee and Steering Committee. Through work with LocationTech and OSGeo projects like GeoTools and GeoServer, he works to build end-to-end solutions for big spatio-temporal problems. He holds a PhD in algebraic topology from the University of Virginia.
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Using Big Data techniques to query and store OpenStreetMap data. Stephen Knox...huguk
This talk will describe his research into using Hadoop to query and manage big geographic datasets, specifically OpenStreetMap(OSM). OSM is an “open-source” map of the world, growing at a large rate, currently around 5TB of data. The talk will introduce OSM, detail some aspects of the research, but also discuss his experiences with using the SpatialHadoop stack on Azure and Google Cloud.
Data Wrangling on Hadoop - Olivier De Garrigues, Trifactahuguk
As Hadoop became mainstream, the need to simplify and speed up analytics processes grew rapidly. Data wrangling emerged as a necessary step in any analytical pipeline, and is often considered to be its crux, taking as much as 80% of an analyst's time. In this presentation we will discuss how data wrangling solutions can be leveraged to streamline, strengthen and improve data analytics initiatives on Hadoop, including use cases from Trifacta customers.
Bio: Olivier is EMEA Solutions Lead at Trifacta. He has 7 years experience in analytics with prior roles as technical lead for business analytics at Splunk and quantitative analyst at Accenture and Aon.
This presentation, given at the IASC European Conference, provides an overview of Commonland farming in the UK, and (reasonably) recent changes in legislation. The changes enabled the creation of Commons Councils, who had statutory powers, but its implementation has been slow.
Nigel Curry's presentation at the CCRI seminar Series of 16 January 2014 looking at Innovation and the source of previous knowledges and practices as a basis for this, including results from ESRC funded Grey and Pleasant Land project and EU FP7 funded SOLINSA project.
2013 Nonprofit Seminar - Conducted by Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, along with the Center for Nonprofits and Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
A presentation given by Dan Keech at East Devon AONB, covering alternative approches to orchard conservation management - with examples from England and Germany.
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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Sustainable Agriculture And Environmental Protection Usda Weri Nri UnChristina Parmionova
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known by the name of its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, was convened by the United Nations in 1983. The commission was created to address growing concern "about the accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources and the consequences of that deterioration for economic and social development." In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development.
Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
Complex agri-environmental issues cannot be solved through the work of an isolated farmer; rather, tackling these issues requires groups of farmers and land managers to work together, engaging with more sustainable practices. To ensure their work is effective, individuals must form a cohesive group in which all members are prepared to work towards a shared goal.
The Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) provides an intentional investment in the development of social and intellectual capital in farmer and land manager groups in England, such that they may work together successfully. This seminar draws on research with four CSFF groups to explore the extent to which group membership prepares individual farmers and land managers for collective action using Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s theory of social and intellectual capital and the organizational advantage. It examines the findings from 21 interviews with farmers and land managers, four interviews with group facilitators and four interviews with staff from group partner organisations. In addition, participant observation was conducted at six group events to examine group relationships and the process of intellectual capital exchange.
The results build on previous findings which demonstrate the importance of social capital in the collective management of natural resources. Specifically, this work explores the role of the facilitator in social capital development, the importance of continuity during group development, the drivers of, and barriers to, the combination and exchange of intellectual capital, and the preconditions required for collective action to occur. The findings are used to develop an extension of Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s framework. This seminar will demonstrate that the development of social and natural capital are interdependent. It will argue for policy which better supports the formation of relationships in which farmers and land managers feel able to work with their peers to deliver landscape-scale environmental change.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
National government needs to establish a framework for the development and operation of a system of LEGOs. It would continue to act in support of national standards, both through regulation and investment to meet international commitments, such as for biodiversity and climate change.
The presentation will give a brief overview of the 'UrbanFarmer' project and its various facets, including the integration of a cohort of Norwegian farmers and agricultural research organisations in the co-production of applied knowledge.
The main thrust of the presentation will be to present similarities and differences in the way that food in short food supply chains is marketed through different farm enterprise business models, and different sales channels. Differences in policy backdrops and other, related, contexts which help or hinder urban marketing through short food supply chains concluding with some ideas of emerging recommendations will also be explored.
Dr Anna Birgitte Milford is a researcher at Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, working on topics related to sustainable food production and consumption, including organic/pesticide reduced fruit and veg production, local sales channels and climate friendly diets. She was a visiting scholar at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire in autumn 2021 conducting field research on urban agriculture and local sales channels in Bristol.
Dr Dan Keech is a Senior Research Fellow at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire. His research topics cover European urban and alternative food networks, Anglo-German cultural geography and trans-disciplinary methods which link art and social science.
Slides from Damian Maye's Seminar - Using Living Labs to Strengthen Rural-Urban Linkages - Reflections from a multi-actor research project
Footage available at: https://youtu.be/Es1VHe69Mcw
Dr. Charlotte Chivers' presentation made at World Congress on Soil Science: Social Science approaches for integrating local knowledge when modelling the impact of natural flood management measures
Dr Charlotte Chivers' presentation made at the 2022 World Congress of Soil Science detailing the EU Horizon 2020 funded project MINAGRIS - MIcro- and Nano-plastics in AGRIcultural Soils
Presentation given by Dr Alessio Russ 8th July for CCRI seminar series.
Over the last few decades, the school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage. This talk addresses concepts and metaphors such as nature-based solutions and wellbeing, ecosystem services, nature-based thinking, urban regeneration, urban agriculture, urban-rural interface, rewilding.
Ang Chong Yi Navigating Singaporean Flavors: A Journey from Cultural Heritage...Ang Chong Yi
In the heart of Singapore, where tradition meets modernity, He embarks on a culinary adventure that transcends borders. His mission? Ang Chong Yi Exploring the Cultural Heritage and Identity in Singaporean Cuisine. To explore the rich tapestry of flavours that define Singaporean cuisine while embracing innovative plant-based approaches. Join us as we follow his footsteps through bustling markets, hidden hawker stalls, and vibrant street corners.
At Taste Of Middle East, we believe that food is not just about satisfying hunger, it's about experiencing different cultures and traditions. Our restaurant concept is based on selecting famous dishes from Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and other Arabic countries to give our customers an authentic taste of the Middle East
Roti Bank Hyderabad: A Beacon of Hope and NourishmentRoti Bank
One of the top cities of India, Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana and home to some of the biggest companies. But the other aspect of the city is a huge chunk of population that is even deprived of the food and shelter. There are many people in Hyderabad that are not having access to
Roti Bank Hyderabad: A Beacon of Hope and Nourishment
Searching for effective farming policies in Gloucestershire
1. Searching for effective farming policies in
Gloucestershire. Examining the scope for a
'Horticultural Belt' including food provisioning and
prospects for agro-ecological initiatives.
CCRI (Community and Countryside Research Institute), University of
Gloucestershire presentation chaired by Dr Matt Reed. 16-Feb-17 at the Oxstalls
campus, room LC102 from 12h15 – 13h15.
Speakers: Nick James and Liz Child
2. Intro and outline
1. us: who we are, the background to the Hortbelt Report, others involved, meetings so far [Nick]
2. the vision: the policy element, the quest to understand the constraints, the insight to the
possibilities [Nick]
3. Questions: what do we want to know from the academic researchers: policy within agrarian,
food, farming community, SDC, GCC; how to approach farmers; RAU; Hartbury; projects [Nick]
4. The report: Recommendations and explanation [Liz]
5. How to research among farmers and rural land owners:
a) any funding [?], interest [Liz],
b) approaches, methodology [Nick]
c) NFU and so on [Nick]?
6. Collaborations and partnerships Stroud and CCRI: CSO and academics, a potential project [?]
7. Conclusions: what policy? The emerging agrarian landscape?
3. Background
Stroud District [Food] and Horticultural Belt Group is a small working
group that has researched and drawn up this report over a period of
four years.
The main aim here is to search for and prescribe effective policy and
action in the agrarian and food provisioning sector.
4. Agroecology
• If "agroecology", recommended by the FAO and deliberated by UK
government, is to move into practice at the local level, then the policy
structures for steering and enabling a transformation need to be
considered within the context of the local authorities and institutions
working with food and agricultural supplies.
• “As a social movement, it pursues multifunctional roles for
agriculture, promotes social justice, nurtures identity and culture, and
strengthens the economic viability of rural areas.”
http://www.fao.org/family-farming/themes/agroecology/en/
5. November 2016 the regional symposium on title
‘agroecology for sustainable agriculture and food systems in
Europe and Central Asia’ was held.
• http://www.fao.org/europe/events/detail-events/en/c/429132/
• FAO’s objectives of the workshop on agroecology in Europe and
Central Asia were to:
• Facilitate exchanges on agroecology among different stakeholders to contribute to a
better understanding and initiate partnerships;
• Show case existing practices, interventions and systems;
• Starting a synthesis about the agroecology approaches in Europe, in reference with
the other three regions: Latin America, Asia & the Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa;
• At policy level: Identifying government initiatives and start to identify key entry
points policies in national policies and in common European policies.
6. APPG: Farmers in Parliament – ‘Opportunity
for Change’
• All-party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology
• What is Agroecology? What we do?
• “The future of Britain’s post-Brexit food and farming system was
addressed in a Parliamentary event hosted by Jeremy Lefroy MP, co-
chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agroecology for
Sustainable Food and Farming.
• The APPG were joined by some of the UK’s most innovative farmers
and food producers and organisations who spoke directly to MPs and
Peers about the issues facing small, family, organic and agroecological
farming today.”
7. Questions for this seminar
• The main question is therefore:
•what are the chances of finding such policy arenas
that may stimulate the local prospects for a
response?
•A secondary question is:
•how do we work with farmers and land owners
to investigate the chances to enable a food and
horticultural belt?
8. Presenters
• Dr Nick James is a geographer and Associate Lecturer with the Open
University. His work is mainly in food, and environmental policy. Nick
was part of the Transition Stroud Food Strategy Group from 2012.
• Liz Child is a Human Ecology graduate and a local fresh food
campaigner. She is now retired and an allotmenteer in Stroud. While
living in Nailsworth she was a member of GoGrow Nailsworth Valleys
community group.
13. BBC Radio 4 Against the Grain
• Food Security
• Against the Grain, Series 1
• Britain last produced all its own food at the end of the eighteenth
century. Since then, our levels of food security - growing what we eat
ourselves - have risen and fallen depending on world markets,
domestic politics, and war. Now, in an unstable world, many people in
farming argue that food security should once again be a real concern.
But is that just a marketing ploy? In episode 8 of Against the Grain,
Charlotte Smith debates the issue with farmers' leaders and
economists.
14. Tim Lang
• Food, Brexit and the Consequences: what can academics and the UK
food movement do? (July 2016)
• http://foodresearch.org.uk/2016/07/food-brexit-and-the-
consequences-what-can-academics-and-the-uk-food-movement-do/
• “These are extraordinary food times requiring special attention from
members of all the progressive food alliances which have grown in
recent years …”
15. CCRI research
• Mills, J., P. Gaskell, J. Ingram, J. Dwyer, M. Reed, and C. Short. (2016)
‘Engaging farmers in environmental management through a better
understanding of behaviour.’ Agriculture and Human Values pp.1-17.
• “Effective engagement between farmers, government and
environmental organisations can help create interest, responsibility
and a social norm. However, to provide this support and advice
requires a good understanding of farmers’ willingness and ability to
undertake environmental activities and the social and cultural
influences on farmer behavioural change.”
16. Food Availability in Stroud District
Considered in the context of climate change and peak oil.
• Local Strategic Partnership: Think Tank on Global Changes
• 16th December 2008
• Fi Macmillan and Dave Cockcroft
• https://archive.org/stream/Food_Availability_in_Stroud_District/Foo
d_Availability_in_Stroud_District_djvu.txt
17. Can Britain Feed itself?
• The Land 4 Winter 2007-8
• “At the moment Britain imports nearly 40 per cent of its food, most of
its energy and nearly all of its fibre. In years to come we might have to
become more self-sufficient. If so, it would not be for the first time.
Many people alive today remember the last time the UK had to resort
to home production. Could we do it again? And could we do it with
organic agriculture?” Simon Fairlie investigates.
18. Food Strategy group,
• Stroud Food Strategy Group (2012) 'Proposal to Stroud District
Council on a local food strategy' Unpublished Document, Nov. 2012.
• £100,000 grant among several groups.
19. People who have read the Report so far.
• Dr John Meadley, Pasture for Life
• Simon Pickering, SDC
• Dr Matt Reed, CCRI
• Martin Whiteside, SDC
• Francis Barton, Independent Researcher, Stroud
• Joy Carey, Sustainable Food Systems Planning, Bristol
21. Recommendations
Establish a Stroud District Food (Provisioning) Strategy
Assembly. Launch initial meeting of all participating
community groups, charities and businesses.
Identify geographically suitable areas of the District to be
designated as Horticultural Belt by a new survey of current
land-use.
S.D. Planning Office would administer the apportionment of
Horticultural Belt designated land and support a long-term
lease model for a small-holding culture.
22. Guild
The Local Horticultural Belt group establishes a Guild of
producers who co-operatively develop their systems of
production and local sales.
23. Stroud District Council (SDC)
SDC’s role within the Horticultural Belt policy would support the Guild by:
• enabling change of use and low-impact dwelling planning applications,
• supporting access to start-up and capacity grants,
• licence regular daily use of Dursley, and Minchinhampton historical covered market
buildings for farm-food stalls, and shops in Wotton-under-Edge, Berkeley, Frampton,
Cam, Eastington, and Stonehouse by supporting reduced-rate premises or licensed
standings,
• support an enlarged covered market-place for 4 – 6 day/week market, with easy
vehicular access, in the District’s largest town, Stroud.
Allocation of specialist planning officer to progress and oversee an adopted
Horticultural Belt policy.
24.
25.
26. Future work – research and consultations
1. How to research among farmers and rural land owners:
a) any funding [?], interest [Liz],
b) approaches, methodology [Nick]
c) NFU and so on [Nick]?
27. Concluding points
• Collaborations and partnerships Stroud and CCRI:
• CSO and academics, a potential project [?]
• Conclusions: what policy?
• The emerging agrarian landscape?
• What are the prospects for “new” policy?
• What opportunities are there locally SDC, GCC and other agencies to
influence land owners, users and farmers?
28. The role for civil society organisations
• The search for gaps and opportunities to:
• Enable farming and food provisioning to become more sustainable;
• To seek-out policy that can be enhanced to make some transformation
• To form a notional “belt” that form an agroecological nexus of local food,
decent livelihoods and concentrated around sustainable development.
Editor's Notes
http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/agri-business/30-of-consumers-buying-more-local-food-than-before-but-what-is-local-35394308.html
“… research also highlighted that there are a number of different meanings and associations with local food. Some three in four consumers understand it to be food made, produced and sourced within their local area, compared to a similar study in 2010 where there was more focus on the producer behind the product.”
Minette Batters (Deputy of NFU): diversification, wedding days, tenant farmer, love of lifestyle, calf rearing before school, “Don’t do it!” Good business, love it. POLICY – a wet field, water. Drown meadows, put nutrients, stopped frost, brought in by the Dutch. Stopped by regulation. Agro-environmental scheme. Returning to “natural” state. Policy shape the field. Not allowed to interfere with the River. POLICY – Ministers, London, from EU, Tom Williamson 1750s.