The changing climate is exerting ever-increasing pressure on our essential resources. This seminar will bring together experts from scientific, economic, and legal backgrounds to discuss the current and future impacts of climate change on global food security and water scarcity, and how these may be tackled through sustainable agricultural practices and drought management strategies. Following brief introductory talks from each speaker about their area of expertise, the seminar will feature a lively panel discussion and Q&A on how we can work towards a future where resources are used sustainably.
This event is open to all, with free entry. Reserve a ticket or come on the day!
Panellists and bios:
Saeed Moghayer
Senior Researcher – Wageningen Economic Research
Saeed is a senior researcher in agri-food sustainability at Wageningen Economic Research. Saeed is a modelling expert with specific inclination towards CGE modelling and the use of hybrid modelling approaches in quantifying the impacts of agri-food and climate systems, and circular bio-economy actions. Prior to WR, he worked as Sr. Research Scientist at TNO. Saeed has varied applied research experience in major EU projects in resource efficiency and climate change and with several agricultural and research organisations such as CCAFS (CGIAR climate research program) in food system foresight.
Bettina Lange
Associate Professor of Law and Regulation – Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Bettina’s main research interests are in nature and society interactions in environmental law ‘in action’. She has co-produced with the Rivers Trust ‘Guidelines for Integrated Drought Management’, published on the UK Government CaBA website. Her first book ‘Implementing EU Pollution Control: Law and Integration’ (2008) Cambridge University Press, was nominated for the Peter Birks prize for outstanding legal scholarship. Currently she is working on a project on the invocation of emotion discourses in the legal regulation of genetically modified organisms in UK agriculture. This project investigates the role that emotions play in the administrative legal decision-making procedure about the release of GMOs into the environment under UK and EU law.
Tom Thirkell
Field Trials Manager - Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge
Tom is a plant physiological ecologist with interests in sustainable agriculture, crop nutrition and soil microbial ecology. His work focusses on crop plants and their interactions with soil microbes, especially the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. At the Crop Science Centre, he is using greenhouse and field trial experiments to investigate the role of mycorrhizas in crop nutrition. Specifically, he is exploring the potential to breed cereals for improved interactions with these fungal symbionts, and investigating how contrasting farm management styles impact crop-microbe associations.
Eleanor Hammond
Research Assistant – Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, University of Oxford
Eleanor is a researcher in the Oxford Department of Biology, with a background in natural sciences. Her research is focused on how to calculate and monitor organisations’ food-related environmental impacts, and is currently working on a project to develop a tool to help users track food-related environmental impacts and to explore options for reducing their impacts to meet environmental targets. This current project has a focus on understanding end-user requirements and constraints for use of such a technology.
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-shortages-in-a-changing-climate-tickets-619152290167
