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Charles Towne, Hilly Landscape, Oil on canvas, 38.7cm x 51.1cm (detail)

Views of the landscape

17 May 2013

In a talk on Monday (20 May 2013) Dr Simon Nightingale will explore how painterly interpretations of the countryside were embedded into the...

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Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, on the Kenya-Somalia border.  ̽»¨Ö±²¥Horn of Africa frequently experiences severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people have trekked to Dadaab seeking food, water, shelter and safety.

Feeding seven billion

21 Nov 2012

With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...

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Crops Growing

Unlocking the agricultural economics of the 19th century

03 Oct 2012

̽»¨Ö±²¥Corn Returns – market data from the 19th century and beyond – represent a valuable resource for economic historians looking at the emergence of...

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Green and pleasant land: A farm near East Meon in Hampshire.

Farming loved but misunderstood, survey shows

23 Aug 2012

A YouGov Cambridge poll has revealed widespread affection for agriculture, even though there is a surprising level of ignorance about the sector and...

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Kharaneh shells

From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution

23 Mar 2012

Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift...

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Gola Forest credit Jeremy Lindsell

Canopy commerce: forest conservation and poverty alleviation

03 Feb 2012

Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest – globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves – are...

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Vegetables

Food security: your questions answered

31 Aug 2011

Over the past month, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...

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Irish tenants are evicted and their homes torn down under the supervision of troops

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

19 Jul 2011

A new book by a Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. ̽»¨Ö±²¥Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...

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