Relevant research and conferences

Hi Jane I missed the boat - I do know that Dave Richards is going, Tomas too I think. You have your business cards to take along! And hopefully some feedback following our launch of the Box.

Well it looks like reserve places only are available now for the 2-4 June Symposium. I only noticed it now! so I have just booked one (rather hastilly) and said I'd promote National Forest Garden Scheme, Forest Gardens 'in Boxes' and out into all sorts of spaces; also that I hope they cover Protecting forest and trees of the Savannah; & Combatting desertification in Africa via international links. Is someone already booked to go and promote NFGS?

My apologies Jake and everyone else. Please just do search it comes up on utube. Ox uni have promised a better quality version shortly. Richard

The web address seems to be truncated!

A number of us in Oxford were able to attend the 'Linking people, nature, food and climate: progress and implications" with Dr David Nabarro at the Oxford Martin School. Such clarity, insight, generosity of spirit, underpinned by deep conviction and passion. Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

I don't want to interrupt the thread but have no better place to post this. In parenthesis then :slight_smile: more places announced for Martin Crawford's International Symposium on Forest Gardens. They've extended it to 200 people: https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/registration/

Excellent thanks Tomas

HI Paul,

have a look at the reference section in my book, and also that of the Community Food Forest Handbook. Here are a few more I've found recently - the citations would need to be tidied up.

Clark, K. H., & Nicholas, K. A. (2013). Introducing urban food forestry: a multifunctional approach to increase food security and provide ecosystem services. Landscape Ecology, 28(9), 1649–1669.

THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS DETERMINING THE DEVELOPMENT~ PERSISTENCE~ AND DECLINE OF FOREST GARDEN SYSTEMS l
BRIAN BELCHER, GENEVIEVE MICHON, ARILD ANGELSEN,
MANUEL RUIZ PI~REZ, AND HEIDI ASBJORNSEN
Economic Botany 59(3) pp. 245-253. 2005
#9 2005 by The New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, NY 10458-5126 U.S.A.

Edible green infrastructure: An approach and review of provisioning ecosystem services and disservices in urban environments
Alessio Russoa, Francisco J. Escobedo, Giuseppe T. Cirella, Stefan Zerbe
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 242 (2017) 53–66

Mette Vaarst, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley,
Ravic Nijbroek , Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca
De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2017): Exploring the concept of agroecological
food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, DOI:
10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321

Exploring the potential of food forestry to assist in ecological restoration in North America and beyond Hyeone Park, Nancy Turner, Eric Higgs; Restoration Ecology Volume26, Issue2, March 2018, Pages 284-293

Josefine Lærke SkrøderNytofte, Christian BuggeHenriksen; Sustainable food production in a temperate climate – a case study analysis of the nutritional yield in a peri-urban food forest; Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2019)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/urban-forestry-and-urban-greening/vol/40/suppl/C
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Special Issue: Urban green infrastructure – connecting people and nature for sustainable cities. Edited by Stephan Pauleit, Erik Andersson, Barbara Anton, Arjen Buijs, Dagmar Haase, Rieke Hansen, Ingo Kowarik, Jari Niemelä, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Sander Van der Jagt; Elsevier (2019)

I did check over some of 'Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change' (a few of the many authors are local to us in Manchester). I will share my notes later - see https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8?fbclid=IwAR21yd35hYbiCVMzttZ6gGDPwz5iiGu8uQWHYLSmj7bPKDJiQajXlOnM2gg

DEFRA Call for evidence. Dear all, Defra sees the urgent need to transform our food system.They say whether you’re "in the food business, a farmer, a food processor or an interested citizen, we want to hear from you" Earlier this year some we shared some very interesting evidence published in Sweden. Could you please post all studies you are aware of not yet posted to this thread. Happy to collate and test a summary with all of us before it's sent.Here's the announcement: https://twitter.com/DefraGovUK/status/1162658323952332801?s=20