Working to ensure sustainable, resilient & healthy food supplies for all
Seminar to be presented by Dr Marco Lucisano, Senior Vice President, RISE, and hosted by N8 AgriFood Chair Professor Louise Dye
Date: Monday 18 November
Time: 1-2pm
Location: University of Leeds, Psychology 1:33/34
About this event:
Dr Marco Lucisano will be visiting Leeds on Monday 18 November and during the visit will be delivering a seminar entitled
“Sustainability and Recycling of Packaging”
On Tuesday 8th October join us at a free ‘birthday’ party to celebrate 350 years since the discovery of phosphorus and its ongoing story at The Storey, Lancaster City Centre.
This event is being organised and funded by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, N8 AgriFood and Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University as part of the #Phosphorus350 group of events.
Join us in Lancaster for the sixth event in N8 AgriFood Doctoral Seminar series where we will be taking a broad look at how we use nutrients in our food system.
Human activity has had devastating effects on global nutrient cycles taking us way beyond the ‘safe operating space’ highlighted in the concept of planetary boundaries. The food system contributes significantly to this issue and this workshop will cover the multiple aspects of our nutrient cycles covering food production,
This is an all-day, free to attend event, open to N8 AgriFood institutions only.
N8 AgriFood, with the support of the FCO Science and Innovation Network USA, invite you to attend a UK-USA Research & Innovation in agrifood workshop hosted at the University of Leeds on Thursday 24 October 2019.
Representatives from the Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan State,
Come and learn about N8 AgriFood’s on-farm arable and soil health research and how it could help farmers and agribusinesses
About this Event
On Friday 21st June, farmers and agribusinesses are invited to “peek over the hedge” into an operational research farm near Leeds and have their say on where scientists should be focusing their efforts to support the future of agriculture.
Through N8 AgriFood, the University of Leeds is hosting an open day at its Headley Hall Farm facility,
Walking the Chain: Dairy Food System in North West England
This event is the latest in N8 AgriFood’s Seminar Series for PhD Students across the N8 Universities.
The two day seminar, being run by N8 AgriFood and Liverpool’s Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems, will provide an insight into the dairy food system and also the tools required to make sense of the biological, economic, social and cultural background of that system.
Join N8 AgriFood for the first event of our Policy Focus Week.
N8 AgriFood is launching a new initiative designed to celebrate and support successful policy engagement from across the programme. Our Policy Focus Week (10th – 14th June, 2019) will include a number of events and targeted media activity celebrating successful policy engagement from the N8 AgriFood programme and offering training opportunities to develop your skills in this area.
N8 AgriFood Doctoral Seminar – Scientific Publishing Thursday 11th April 2019 at Durham University
This event is part of a unique series of informal, interdisciplinary workshops across the N8 universities (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) for PhD students from both the natural and social sciences. Join us in Durham for the fourth in the series and; network with your peers across the N8 universities, develop your skills in scientific writing,
This symposium explores food justice from theoretical and practical perspectives.
This symposium explores food justice from theoretical and practical perspectives. It considers what food justice is, what justice demands from food policy, and how existing regulation achieves or fails to achieve food justice. It explores food justice as an overarching term encompassing theoretical perspectives like food security, food sovereignty and the right to food, and highlights specific problems with food justice.
We’re looking forward to welcoming guests, delegates and speakers to our 2019 conference.
Taking place at the Principal Hotel in York on the 22nd and 23rd October 2019, our theme this year is Celebrating N8AgriFood: Creating solutions for a sustainable food system.
Our 4th Annual N8 AgriFood Conference is hosted this year by York, Newcastle and Leeds. Over the two day event we would like to share with you what we have been contributing to the challenges facing the food system and provide a platform for further debate and discussion about the solutions we can all contribute to.