Food Security and Climate Change

Half a million tonnes of food waste every year!

Scotland annually discards more than half a million tonnes of food waste every year, much of which would be edible. At the same time, food insecurity remains a short term problem and a long term strategic issue over the globe.

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Thursday, 11 September, 2014

Don’t waste our Future!

Many congratulations to Alan Britton who has heard that a bid entitled "Don’t waste our Future! - Building a European alliance of youngsters against food waste and for new models of sustainable development and consumption in the EYD 2015” has been funded.

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Tuesday, 9 September, 2014

Citizen Science 2015

Citizen Science 2015 is the inaugural conference and gathering of the newly formed Citizen Science Association (CSA). This event is a pre-conference of the 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting.

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Tuesday, 19 August, 2014

Agricultural R&D spend falls in 13 African countries

Agricultural R&D spend fell in 13 African countries between 2008 and 2011, according to The Atlas of African Agriculture Research and Development published on 30 June. 

The map, produced by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute, shows that agricultural research investments in many sub-Saharan African countries are “well below the levels required”.

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Wednesday, 16 July, 2014

London to host first conference in the "Planning For Climate Change" series

On the 4th December 2014 in London the first conference in a series across the UK and Ireland entitled ‘Planning for Climate Change’ will take place.  The key focus of the day is to debate and discuss the key issues that face communities across the country when it comes to adapting to climate change and addressing the problems and opportunities that climate change brings.

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Monday, 30 June, 2014

Soil Security Programme: Announcement of opportunity for consortia awards

NERC is inviting proposals for consortia projects requesting funds between £1M and £2.5M (80% FEC), and of up to three years' duration, which will address the objectives of the programme as stated in the announcement of opportunity.

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Monday, 19 May, 2014

EU-Africa Partnership to focus on Food Security and Nutrition

The EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation has chosen to focus on food and nutrition security, and sustainable agriculture. An expert group has been established to produce an operational roadmap that can be translated into actions to be funded by all the stakeholders concerned including the European Commission, the African Union Commission, the European and African countries or the private sector.

You can read more here.

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Monday, 19 May, 2014

UN Global Compact Publishes 10 Briefs on SDGs, Post-2015 Agenda

The UN Global Compact has launched a series of issue briefs on the post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The briefs address the following priority issues: climate and energy; education; food and agriculture; governance and human rights; health; infrastructure and technology; peace and stability; poverty; water and sanitation; and women's empowerment. 

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Saturday, 26 April, 2014

Scotland-Malawi Partnership: "Global Gathering"

An international evening of dinner and stories from Africa and India. Win great raffle prizes and find out more about our development projects in Malawi and India and how to get involved!

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Tuesday, 22 April, 2014

Scotland-Malawi Partnership

CR&DALL is a member of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership and we are happy to forward mailings and notices from the Partnership. Two recent information mailings are attached here and notice of an upcoming event is to be found in the Events list.

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Tuesday, 22 April, 2014

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