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Give Bees a Chance! How can we help bees and feed the world?

Thu 10 December 2020

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At this event our panel, including leading bee experts Dave Goulson and Lynn Dicks, will answer questions such as, how can we make our gardens more bee-friendly? What can farmers do? Will the government’s new Office for Environmental Protection improve the situation?

WIN ‘A Sting in the Tale’ or ‘The Garden Jungle’ by Dave Goulson. We have one copy of each book to give away. For your chance to win all you have to do is turn up to the event on-line.

Our Panel:
Dave Goulson, named by BBC Wildlife as one of the most influential people in conservation, he is the author of several popular books about bees, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and is a Professor at Sussex University.

Lynn Dicks is a conservation scientist focused on insect conservation and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. She conducts trans-disciplinary research at the interface between agro-ecology, policy and the food and farming industry. She is Lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of Cambridge.

Other panel members TBC

Chair:
Howard Griffiths, Co-Chair of Cambridge Global Food Security IRC, Professor of Plant Ecology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

An #AnnualFoodAgenda event, organised by the University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences, powered by EIT Food, supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union.