A week in Whitworth Park in a Heat Wave – I
Artist Kerry Morrison has written some reflections on her week spent in Manchester's Whitworth Park with Jasmine Black as part of the Changing Treescapes AHRC project.
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Changing Treescapes – A time spent exploring Manchester’s Whitworth Park
CCRI Research Assistant, Jasmine Black has recently spent time exploring Manchester’s Whitworth park ahead of undertaking two weeks of fieldwork there for the Changing Treescapes project. She has written this reflective piece about her experiences there.
COVID-19 and small-scale farmers’ resilience: growing and eating food during the pandemic in Masvingo, Zimbabwe
This blog presents an analysis of small-scale farmers’ resilience in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. It was written by a research team coordinated by Nicole Paganini at Humboldt University Berlin, with Daniel Tevera, University of the Western Cape, as lead author of this blog, in collaboration with Stefanie Lemke at Coventry University.
Winter School 2021 – “Can everyone see my slides?”
The CCRI Winter School took place last month in exceptional circumstances. Although in the virtual environment it was still a warm and supportive one. PhD student Pippa Simmonds recounts the activities across the three days.
Gender, COVID-19 and Food Systems: Impacts, Community Responses and Feminist Policy Demands
Jessica Duncan from Wageningen University & Dr Priscilla Claeys, from Coventry University summaris key findings from their recently published report Gender, COVID-19 and Food Systems: Impacts, Community Responses and Feminist Policy Demands, which examines how women working across food systems are experiencing and responding to the crisis and its outcomes.
FRC Covid-19 Food Policy Trackers
The Food Research Collaboration has launched an interactive Policy Tracker that shows how the English government’s responses to the unfolding Covid-19 crisis affected the food system, with parallel versions for South Africa and India. FRC Director Rosalind Sharpe, explains why the FRC thought it was important to capture policy as it unfolded.
Farm shops and food system resilience in a time of crisis
In this blog, we hear from Dr. John Lever, Reader at the Centre for Sustainability, Responsibility, Governance and Ethics at the University of Huddersfield. John has been conducting research on the regional food system in Kirklees in West Yorkshire for over five years. This blog post draws on a recent University of Huddersfield funded project (A safe and just local food system) exploring its changing dynamics during the Covid-19 health pandemic.
COVID-19 Reset: Place-based food initiatives in a time of crisis
In this blog entitled 'COVID-19 Reset: Place-based food initiatives in a time of crisis' we hear from Dr. Rebecca Sandover, Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and Trustee of Food Exeter.
Worlds apart—Japan’s urban and rural experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic
In the latest blog post related to COVID-19 and sustainable food systems, we hear from Steven McGreevy & Norie Tamura from the FEAST project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan who discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected rural and urban areas in Japan.