SILCI member Laurie Kerr recently sat on a panel of early career researchers at the “Science, Society and our Planet” event, which took place in Norwich Science Festival 2019. The event encouraged discussion between the public and the panel members about some of the big problems facing society. Some of the big questions discussed included […]
Three themes were especially salient at the ORFC 2020: the criteria for allocating subsidies to farmers/land managers for providing public services such as flood prevention or enhancing biodiversity the land sharing vs land sparing debate and the implications of these approaches for how we produce our food a recognition of the climate crisis and the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of food and farming systems Much of the discussion centred on how to support farmers, on already narrow profit […]