Geertje van der Heijden
Associate Professor, School of Geography
Email: Geertje.VanDerheijden@nottingham.ac.uk
Bio: Dr Geertje van der Heijden is interested in how climate change affects the structure and functioning of tropical forests and the ability of tropical forests to store and sequester carbon. Their research focuses on a specific kind of woody vine that, on a forest level, can reduce the amount of carbon that is stored and sequestered by tropical forests. The over-abundance of these vines in forests is affected by climate change and therefore researching them is vital to understanding the fate of tropical forests and their carbon balance in a changing climate
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- In this short video series, Dr Anne Touboulic and Dr Lucy McCarthy unwrap their knowledge of food supply chains to explore some of the factors that go into food supply chains and some of the changes that can help to create a more sustainable system for the future.
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- It is time to employ some radical thinking on the future of our food systems.
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- Anne Touboulic and Festo Massawe from Nottingham's Future Food Beacon discuss the impacts of climate change on global food supplies and what can be done to help.
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- Seafood supply chains sustain three billion people nutritionally and also provide 10% of the world's population with employment. But they are dangerously unsustainable.
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- This blog explores some of the flaws in our globalised food systems and the historical trading patterns upon which they are based, which have remained largely unquestioned for centuries. Food is essential but the way consumer demands have shaped our food systems through overproduction and consumption is not.