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SUMMARY:Give Bees a Chance - Professor Dave Goulson\, University of Sussex
DTSTART:20201210T183000Z
DTEND:20201210T193500Z
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CONTACT:A B Youngman
DESCRIPTION:Give Bees a Chance! How can we help bees and feed the world? \
 n\nThe decline in pollinating insects is one of the most worrying symptoms
  of climate breakdown because much of our food production relies on them. 
  \n\nSo\, what can we do? Does it help if we make our gardens more welcomi
 ng to pollinators? Can scientists breed more bee-friendly plants? What rol
 e can farmers and the food industry play? What about the government’s ne
 w Office for Environmental Protection? \n\nOur panel will address these qu
 estions and others from the audience\, to set out the steps we can all tak
 e to give bees a better chance.\n\nProfessor Dave Goulson\, Sussex Univers
 ity\,is the author of several popular books about bees\, including the Gar
 den Jungle. He is founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.  \n\nLynn D
 icks is a conservation scientist focused on insect conservation and biodiv
 ersity in agricultural landscapes. She leads research at the interface bet
 ween agro-ecology\, policy and the food and farming industry. She is Lectu
 rer in Animal Ecology at the University of Cambridge. \n\nHamish Symington
  researches pollination and plant-pollinator interactions at the Universit
 y of Cambridge\, testing bumblebees' responses to flowers. In 2019 he and 
 fellow PhD student Jake Moscrop were awarded funding by EIT Food to make a
  video: 'Improving flowers to help feed the world'\, about their research.
 \n\nOther panel members TBC. \n\nChair: \n\nHoward Griffiths\, Co-Chair of
  Cambridge Global Food Security IRC\, Professor of Plant Ecology\, Departm
 ent of Plant Sciences\, University of Cambridge. \n\nAn #AnnualFoodAgenda 
 event\, organised by the University of Cambridge\, Cambridge Global Food S
 ecurity IRC and CambPlants Hub\, powered by EIT Food\, supported by the EI
 T\, a body of the European Union. \n\n 
LOCATION:online - please register here to receive zoom link: https://bit.l
 y/39rJ0hk
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