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Farmer Led Regenerative Agriculture for Africa
Farmer Led Regenerative Agriculture for Africa. 9 February 2022. Lunn-Rockliffe, S., Davies, M.I., Willman, A., Moore, H.L., McGlade, J.M. and Bent, D. 2020. Our findings demonstrate that a major barrier sits at the intersection between 1) the…
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

To fight desertification we need to drive diversity on farms and plates
Professor Henrietta Moore was interviewed for this article by Alina Paul-Bossuet at ICRISAT on sustainable agriculture and the fight against Climate Change.…
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

Who is eating up the world's aquifers? Groundwater depletion in international food
Who is eating up the world's aquifers? Groundwater depletion in international food. 17 May 2017, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Availability. Yes. Organiser. UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Location. Room G01, Central…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources

Apply for our PhD studentship in Environmental Sustainability of Global Food
Apply for our fully-funded PhD Studentship in Environmental Sustainability of Global Food…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources

Global food supply at risk from agricultural misuse of non-renewable water – global study
New UCL ISR research highlights the growing issue of the global misuse of non-renewable groundwater reserves.…
UCL Inst. for Sustainable Resources

New book explores sustainable food systems in the city
New book explores sustainable food systems in the city. 8 December 2016. Robert Biel has published a new book available for free download from UCL Press. Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond,…
Development Planning Unit

Who is feeding African Cities?
DPU ESD staff and students contribute to a new book on Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana, edited by the International Water Management Institute.…
Development Planning Unit

DPU contributions to international policy and thinking on Urban Agriculture
The DPU has been very active in research around Urban Agriculture, which is one of the key identified themes of our Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and Resilience research cluster.…
Development Planning Unit

Robert Biel publishes his latest book, 'The Entropy of Capitalism'
Robert Biel publishes his latest book, 'The Entropy of Capitalism'. 19 March 2013. Drawing on his experience in international systems and low-input agriculture, the book sees Biel exploring the interactions of social and physical systems. In the…
Development Planning Unit

Cultivating change in Accra
Students from the DPU’s MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development have recently returned from conducting fieldwork overseas in Accra, Ghana.…
Development Planning Unit