Rural Development, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Seminar: Opportunities for international, multidisciplinary collaborative research to focus on food systems research and development agriculture - Samarthia Thankappan

Event Details

Date:

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Time:

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Room:

S324

UQ Location:

Hartley Teakle Building (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Opportunities for international, multidisciplinary collaborative research to focus on food systems research and development agriculture
Samarthia Thankappan

Samarthia Thankappan is a visiting academic from the University of York, United Kingdom, who is currently on her sabbatical at SAFS. She is being hosted by Bill Bellotti and Helen Ross.

The talk /discussion would centre around forging new links and exploring opportunities for international, multidisciplinary collaborative research to focus on food systems research and Development Agriculture that will integrate and add value to both UoY the UQ’s individual areas of strength in agricultural science, food science, public health, environmental science and the social sciences. Samarthia 's research interests are in the areas of i) Resilience of food systems ii) Governance of food systems iii) Food and Nutrition Security (iv) Gender in Agriculture v) Poverty and governance dimensions of social and environmental change vi) Climate Change and Smallholder Agriculture.

This presentation is part of a seminar series within SAFS covering Rural Development, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness. The seminars include a range of interesting topics relating to ongoing or completed research and will be held fortnightly at Tuesday lunchtimes.