2019

17 Jun

Field Lab: Plant Teams. Heritage grains and crop innovation for crofters

Venue: Isle of Lismore
Time: 10.30am–4.30pm

Join us on the Isle of Lismore for a special crofting meeting of our Plant Teams field lab, looking at growing multiple crops together for better outcomes, also called intercropping.

2 Oct

42nd TB Macaulay Lecture - Green and Prosperous Land

Venue: Dynamic Earth 112-116 Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AS

Each year the Macaulay Development Trust, in partnership with the James Hutton Institute, hosts a world-renowned guest speaker for its annual TB Macaulay Lecture.

18 Nov

Scottish Biodiversity Science Conference

Venue: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Arboretum Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5NZ.
Time: 09:30 to 17:00

This one-day Conference on ‘Scottish Biodiversity Science for Nature: novelty, ingenuity and solutions’ will address current environmental challenges and discuss innovative methods and technologies that create solutions for biodiversity.

19 Nov

Food Matters Live 2019

Venue: ExCeL, London.

The unique event creating cross-sector connections focused on the future of food, drink and sustainable nutrition.

27 Nov

SAGES’19 Symposium: Global Climate Challenges for a Blue Green Economy - Evidence, Relevance, Solutions.

Venue: John McIntyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Rd, Edinburgh, EH16 5AY
Date: 27th-28th of November 2019
Time: 09:00 to 18:00

Practical solutions to challenges posed by global anthropogenic climate change are non-global: in national and regional regulatory frameworks, in devolved implementation of policy, in behavioural acceptance and desire for change, and in process-level understanding underpinning systems science research.