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Geoff Tansey: How to farm?

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Around the world, as more and more people live in towns and cities, small farmers are being squeezed out of farming as their livelihoods are threatened. At the heart of the choices we face in future food provisioning are questions about what is land for, how to farm and who will farm. SCAR) 3rd Foresight report. Calls the ‘productivity narrative’. Is discussed in a report by the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food. This latter approach requires focusing on different questions for science and technology th...

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Geoff Tansey: Food Ethics

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Contrary to popular opinion, ethics is not just a straightforward matter of 'doing the right thing' says Prof Ben Mepham, founder director of the Food Ethics Council. Because the right thing is often not that obvious. So what is ethics? Ethics he says is about providing explicit justification for your chosen course of action. And for each of us, that boils down to a decision on 'what I sincerely believe I should do next, based on the ethical principles guiding that decision. The Council has also run a pi...

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Geoff Tansey: site index

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Future Control of Food. Quakers, food and IP. Work on IP with others. Key resource for our future. Hear an interview with Mark Kibblewhite, professor of applied soil science at the University of Cranfield. He also contributed to a special issue of. Paul Rogers, professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. Made brief opening remarks to a roundtable on 'Time for system change: Food and beyond' at the Agriculture, Food and Human Values society conference in 2011. Terms of use and about this site.

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Geoff Tansey - Books

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I have co-written or co-edited five books, most recently, the award winning. Future Control of Food. Brief details are on this page, fuller details including list of contents and links to download and or buy them are on their own page. My other writings include monographs. Papers, book chapters. And features for newspapers and magazines. The Future Control of Food. A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security. Read more, out of print, download.

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Geoff Tansey - peace, food and our future

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Peace, food and our future. A key challenge this century is to create sustainable ways in which everyone can feed themselves well, in communities that peacefully cooperate with each other. If we humans carry on in the way we have let our leaders manage our affairs to date, then we are likely to see even greater conflict and loss of life this century than before - because of not despite our technological wizardry. Real Security - East, West, North and South. Produced in May 2012 . Giant chair with broken ...

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Geoff Tansey - Peter Drahos - Understanding intellectual property: 2. How business lobbying changed the world

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2 How business lobbying changed the world. Please respond to a 60 sec survery after watching - Click here to take survey. For the video is as follows:. Introduction. 0 - 1 minute 41 seconds. Part 1. Changing the global rules : 1 min 41 sec - 10 min 11 sec. Part 2. Some effects: 10 min 11 sec - 21 min 48 sec. Part 3. Australia vs Big Tobacco: 21 min 48 sec - 34 min 58 sec. Part 4. Lessons from Australia's tobacco experience: 34 min 58 sec - end. Return to talks list page. See listings under his first talk.

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Geoff Tansey - Food, hunger and health

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Food, hunger and health. Hunger and malnutrition are still widespread today, largely but not only in developing countries. They increase people’s vulnerability to shocks (whether natural disasters or a rise in food prices), weaken their capacity to produce food and/or to access affordable, nutritious food, and undermine health, as was discussed in the International Red Cross and Red Cresent Societies 2011 World Disasters Report on Hunger and Malnutrition. Up close and personal - prostate cancer. My activ...

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Geoff Tansey - awards

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I have been fortunate to receive a number of awards in my life. The first being a Rotary Foundation. Graduate Fellowship for the promotion of international understanding and cultural exchange in 1973. Thanks to this I spent an academic year studying the History of Science and Technology at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. In 2005, I won one of the six Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Visionaries for a Just and Peaceful World'. To download a report about the Trusts. The purpose that has ...

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Geoff Tansey - The Food System: a guide

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The Food System - a guide. Is required or recommended reading for people studying food on various courses around the world - even though it was published in 1995. The Food System remains a seminal text that explains the key workings and structures of the modern food system and is an indispensable reference point for students of food policy. It is a clearly expressed and well laid out text, providing much needed clarity in an area of increasing complexity. Or order through your local bookshop. It opens th...

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Geoff Tansey - The Future Control of Food

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The Future Control of Food. The Future Control of Food - A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security. The book is available in soft and hardback, in English and Spanish, and freely downloadable from the idrc website. Chinese translation available in paperback (ISBN 978-7-109-17226-5) and also available to download from here. WARNING: This is a large file, just over 30Mb. Part I: A Changing Food System. Food, Farming and Global Rules. Pat Mooney...