by Mohammad Feisal Rahman, Durham University and Hanna A Ruszczyk, Durham University This article is republished from The Conversation under … More
Tag: food security
Will local food producers keep feeding us beyond Covid-19?
By Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield, UK The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected the UK’s food system. During the first weeks … More
Covid-19 and food systems: relational geographies, food insecurity and relocalisation
By Damian Maye, University of Gloucestershire, UK Covid-19 is highlighting vulnerabilities in food systems like never before and exposing fundamental moral … More
Survival infrastructures under covid-19
By Ayona Datta, University College London, UK I grew up hearing stories of Calcutta during the Bengal Famine of 1943 … More
The world needs to be concerned: Pathological lives
By Steve Hinchliffe, University of Exeter “The diversity and geographical distribution of influenza viruses currently circulating in wild ad domestic birds … More
Cultivating the land of the concrete jungle: environmental and social security, but for whom?
By Amita Bhakta, Loughborough University There are many different aspects of daily life that symbolise wider environmental challenges in the … More
Cricket farming as an alternative livelihood strategy
By Afton Halloran, Nanna Roos, University of Copenhagen, and Yupa Hanboonsong, Khon Kaen University Rapid urbanization, major losses of biodiversity, … More
Rapid land-use changes are creating the geology of the Anthropocene
By Eli Lazarus From a historical perspective, land grabbing – deals involving acquisitions of large-scale land assets – is not … More
The Importance of Soil
By Daniel Schillereff A recent paper by Bilotta et al. (2012) examining the interplay between ecosystem services and soil erosion … More
Food, Glorious Food… What Next is the Question?
By Jen Dickie This week, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation are hosting the ‘Committee on World Food Security’ in Rome. … More
