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Where do we go to eat (now)? Rethinking food systems in disruptive times

Published on February 8, 2021September 7, 2021 by RGRG_Admin

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, …

The water pollution blame game: governance and power relations in managing diffuse water pollution from agriculture

Published on February 8, 2021May 22, 2021 by RGRG_Admin

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 …

Reconfiguring farmed animal health and welfare: exploring and transcending borders between spaces, times, species and knowledges

Published on February 8, 2021May 22, 2021 by RGRG_Admin

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 …

Session title: Peripheral Regions and the Big Challenges for the 21st Century

Published on February 8, 2021May 22, 2021 by RGRG_Admin

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 …

RGS Call for new sessions for 2021 RGS with IBG Conference

Published on December 24, 2020 by RGRG_Admin

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 …

The Digital Marketing of Rural Real Estate – Even More Important Post-Covid?

Published on December 24, 2020 by RGRG_Admin

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 …

‘Agro-ecology and organic agriculture as a counterforce to (super-) productivist farming in Brazil: innovative strategies in a time of crisis‘ – Dr Felipe da Silva Machado (University of Plymouth)

Published on October 5, 2020 by RGRG_Admin
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Politics and the Rural: (New) Spaces for Contentious Politics beyond the Urban – Viktoria Noka (University of Glasgow)

Published on October 5, 2020 by RGRG_Admin
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Toward an integrative framework for the governance of sustainable agricultural innovation – ​Auvikki de Boon, University of Reading.

Published on October 5, 2020 by RGRG_Admin



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Dissertation awards: Conditions for submissions

Published on June 23, 2020July 18, 2025 by RGRG_Admin

Undergraduate

The prize is open to any currently registered undergraduate student at a UK university and will be awarded to the dissertations that exhibit the best overall contributions to the wide range of issues relating to rural geography. Three prizes …

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