Events

27th April 2021: 1:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

This event is organised by the The Oxford Martin Programme on Women’s Equality and Inequality.

Series: Series: Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme (WEIR)

29th April 2021: 2:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

The global pandemic has derailed progress toward the SDGs as developing countries now balance long-term investments in health, education, roads, electricity, and water with spending to protect lives and livelihoods.

5th May 2021: 4:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

In 1961, an international group of rice scientists came at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and began crossing semi-dwarf varieties of japonica rice with taller indica varieties from South and Southeast Asia. Within weeks of the initiation of the rice breeding programme, they had made the crosses that led to the development of the varieties IR5 and IR8, the latter of which was released in 1965 and subsequently planted on as many as 10 million ha by the 1980s.

6th May 2021: 5:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

On the 2nd February 2021 The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review was published, an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

Series: The economics of biodiversity

12th May 2021: 4:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

The early medieval ‘agricultural revolution’ saw the advent of new, extensive forms of cereal farming that enabled landowners to amass wealth by exploiting the labour of others and supported the exceptionally rapid growth of towns, markets and populations. The spread of open-field farming in particular is regarded as one of the transformative changes of the Middle Ages, one that has left a clear mark on the landscape today.

19th May 2021: 5:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

We are at a crossroads. Covid-19 has wreaked havoc but also offers the potential for radical change.

20th May 2021: 5:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

Even as we seek to overcome the global pandemic, humanity faces three planetary crisis that threaten our future - the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, and the pollution and waste crisis – driven by decades of relentless and unsustainable consumption and production.

Series: The economics of biodiversity

3rd June 2021: 5:00pm
Online - Crowdcast

The recently published Dasgupta Review has made a strong call for the fundamental rebuilding of economic models in ways that inherently value Nature.

Series: The economics of biodiversity

6th December 2021: 10:30am
Mathematical Institute

The fourth LEAP conference, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health programme, will take place on the 6th December 2021.