Professor M S Swaminathan has been described by the UN Environment Programme as ‘the Father of Economic Ecology’.

This conference will explore alternative conceptions of rights in the global south. We intend to open up the idea of rights to a range of claim-making activities to destabilize the conception of rights as inevitably linked to the individual and the autonomous. How, for instance, have marginalised and oppressed groups sought to mobilise the language of rights to protect themselves and their ‘communities’ variously imagined? Moreover, rights claims can, and were, made in contexts of multiple sovereignties in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial societies. How, then, can experiences and ideas from the global south help us develop a more capacious understanding of rights?

The Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA) East Anglia Branch Annual Seminar will focus on reducing crop losses, especially in E Africa. The event is being co-hosted by Cambridge University’s Global Food Security initiative and CamPlantsHub. There will be two presentations, with time for Q&A discussions.

Programme

9.00- Registration, poster viewings and coffee

9.30- Session 1 “Africa”: Talks chaired by Aliko Ahmed, Public Health England

Have you ever wondered how new ideas can help people in the developing world? Are you interested in what Cambridge can do to help? If so, then our Development i-Teams programme is for you!

The India-UK Water Centre is inviting applications from Indian and UK water scientists to attend a workshop on Integrating precipitation forecasts and climate predictions with basin-scale hydrological modelling in the Himalayas.

Preceding the 78th Biennial Conference of the International Law Association (ILA) Conference in Sydney in August 2018, the ILA Committee on Sustainable Resources Management in collaboration with the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law is hosting an expert panel event on the role of international law in sustainable resources management.

SynBio Forum is a flagship event organised by the Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative (SynBio SRI). The forum features prominent external speakers and excellent networking opportunities. This easter term, Chris Voigt and Somenath Bakshi will talk about their cutting edge work in synthetic biology.

Under the British Council’s Researcher Links programme, offered under the Newton Fund, we invite you to participate in a five-day workshop on air pollution in emerging mega-cities. The workshop is being coordinated by Lancaster University (UK), African Technology and Policy Studies (Kenya), and North West University (South Africa). Open to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) based in UK, Kenya and South Africa.

At the World Conservation Congress in 2016 IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) approved a resolution that called on the Union to undertake an assessment to examine the organisms, components and products resulting from synthetic biology techniques and the impacts of their production and use, which may be beneficial or detrimental to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and associated social, economic, cultural and ethical considerations. This Assessment will then be used to recommend how IUCN and its members should approach this topic.