‘Food for thought: food security in changing times’ This prestigious annual event jointly arranged by SCRR and the Royal Society of Edinburgh will address global food security, with speakers including Professor Rachel Norman FRSE of the University of Stirling and Dr Peter Alexander of the University of Edinburgh. The event takes place at the RSE […]
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Food for thought: food security in changing times May 7, 2024 • 5pm Royal Society of Edinburgh HYBRID EVENT (IN PERSON OR ONLINE) Booking and full details, RSE website By 2050, the world must feed two billion more people. Achieving food security means that all people, at all times, have reliable physical and economic access
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In our latest newsletter… Katie Dubarry of Roslin discusses the establishment within SCRR of a new network aimed at supporting Early Career Researchers in coping with the many challenges they face. See Publications
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Our latest newsletter for summer 2023 is now out. In this, our 101st edition, Dr Leslie Mabon, Lecturer in Environmental Systems at The Open University reports on our key annual event, the SCRR / RSE Peter Wilson Lecture. See Publications
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Back to the future: what could or should rural be in 2098 May 23, 2023 The Royal Society of Edinburgh In 2023, SCRR will reach its 75th birthday. Two years after the Agriculture Act came into being in May 1948, urging all farmers to “make two blades of grass grow where one grew before”, food
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SCRR held a member’s lunch hosted by the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems (GAAFS), part of the University of Edinburgh. Professor Geoff Simm, Director of GAAFS, described it as a leading interdisciplinary hub of researchers, teachers and students developing new science, and curating evidence and learning on the intersection and interdependence of the
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SCRR’s next Early Career Researcher mini-conference will be combined with the annual Peter Wilson Lecture and held in May 2023 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In order to enable early career researchers (ECRs) working in the area of rural science to engage with a wider network of people, and therefore gain the most benefit
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Our latest newsletter is just out, and this time it’s a bit special. SCRR News issue 100 looks back at our origins on the Easter Bush estate in 1989 and forward to an exciting future, with a particular focus on the potential of Early Career Researchers.
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OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER is just out, in time for the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston, where SCRR will have a presence again this year. SCRR News issue 99 is available as a print edition by request, as well as online. Contents include: challenges for livestock farming; Edinburgh’s new conservation film festival; rare plants in the
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Our prestigious annual event organised jointly with RSE took the form of a discussion with four speakers on the theme ‘The time for rural is now’
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