Over the last year food has featured in the news in an unprecedented way. The Covid-19 pandemic and the private and policy responses to its impacts have laid bare the vulnerabilities and the injustices of food systems. In the UK, …

As intensive livestock farming has proliferated, externalities such as water pollution have become increasingly concerning, largely due to the associated biodiversity loss and human health risks. Government action to reduce the contributions of agriculture to water pollution is mobilised through …

This session will explore emerging discourses and practices associated with persistent health and welfare issues affecting farmed animals. The session is interested in examining the constitution and effects of sets of material and conceptual borders within which farmed animal health …

Conveners: Dr Megan Palmer-Abbs (NRI) & Dr Camilla Risvoll (NRI)

Peripheral Regions are often the earliest and hardest hit by Climate Change events.  Much research has been orchestrated which seeks to identify and mitigate both the predicted impacts, and real …

The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021 will take place at the Royal Geographical Society in London.  The format for sessions is either in person or online sessions, there will be no hybrid sessions this year.  The conference will take place …

Hello, my name is Niamh McHugh and I am currently at the beginning of my final year of my PhD. I am a part of the Midlands ESRC DTP Training Pathway, holding a joint studentship at Loughborough University and the …