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BBSRC Excellence with Impact Awards visit.
BBSRC Excellence with Impact Awards visit on Tuesday 21st July. Africa College has entered the BBSRC Excellence with Impact competition which runs through 2009 and 2010. The BBSRC assessors will be judging progress in the competition. Africa College will show the BBSRC how it is enhancing the University's research culture. This is very much in tune with the VC's ambitions and he has agreed to provide a welcoming addressecessary actions.
21st July 2009
Other Archived Stories
- Africa College Small Grant Competition 2013: Winners announced
- New textbook on West African weather forecasting
- EQUIP project ends with discussion of its future applications
- Sustainable Agriculture Bursary Awards announced
- Researching carbon markets and vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa
- PhD candidate in School of Earth and Environment wins STEPS summer school scholarship.
- Transport Africa Scholarship Competition
- Africa College Small Grant Competition 2013: Call now closed.
- Ensemble predictions could help to improve the reliability of forecasts for rainfall during the West African dry season
- Growing evidence of global warming threat to future food supplies
- New publication on the Politics of Agricultural Carbon Finance
- Africa College researchers and the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) contribute to assessment of sustainability standards in agriculture.
- Bursaries available for Post Grad Students
- Field research on poverty reduction through co-operative participation in Kenya
- Africa College attends workshop on Sorghum in Nairobi
- The Global Plant Council publishes its Perspective
- Two new European research projects for Africa College's Director of Research.
- Africa College looks to develop models of highly productive integrated micro-farms
- Professor Andy Challinor, Africa College Research Director, in New Scientist.
- Africa College Researcher, Dr Lindsay Stringer, takes part in live HE Guardian panel.
- Press release from the CASCADE project.
- Africa College academic, Dr Lindsay Stringer, interviewed by Nature Climate Change
- Climate Compatible Development and experience from sub-Saharan Africa
- GM food saboteurs only destroy vital new knowledge
- Visit by Lord Cameron of Dillington to the University of Leeds and Africa College
- Looking for weather data?
- Transport Links Key on Road to Prosperity
- Visiting Research Fellow attends International Women's Day events.
- Executive Director of Africa College co-authors paper in Science: What next for Agriculture After Durban?
- Scientist awarded fellowship to work in Africa College
- Africa College attended CIALCA Conference in Rwanda
- RiDNet Brown Bag Lunch Series
- PhD students doing their field work in Kenya
- Africa College visit to IITA at BecA in Nairobi
- Africa College takes part in DSA-EADI Conference
- Defeating nematode worms with GM bananas
- Tim Benton appointed as UK's Global Food Security Champion
- New Post for Africa College Advisor, Dr Akin Adesina
- New Agriculturist publish an article on the AC conference
- Science, People and Politics publish article on Behrans Lecture
- Prof Foyer awarded Redox pioneer accolade
- Africa College attends IFPRIs 2020 Conference
- Research Impact Q & A session for Prof Atkinson
- Two Degrees Up: Climate Change Photofilm
- Africa College attends ESPA Conference in Nairobi
- New Director of Research for Africa College
- David Howlett attends UK-China Seminar on climate change
- Workshop held jointly with the World Bank-hosted SSATP.
- Earthbeat - David Howlett discusses the future of farming
- Prof Atkinson takes part in live debate on the Green Movement
- Africa College welcomes 2 new PhD students
- Study to investigate giant Saharan dust storms underway
- "New hot paper" by Prof Douglas Parker, University of Leeds
- Crop failures could double due to climate change
- Hilary Benn MP as Africa College speaker: View on-line
- Uganda prepares to plant transgenic bananas
- Visit of Janet Allen, Research Director of BBSRC
- Africa College competition winner announced
- Africa College scientist Prof Christine Foyer in the news
- New online lecture from Dr Colin Chartres available
- Dr Luuk Fleskens appointed to Africa College
- Agricultural Research Connections workshop, Nairobi
- Africa College generates world wide interest
- Africa College generates media impact
- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: Water Resources Management Options for Smallholder Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
- DFID Call for Proposals: New and Emerging Technologies Research Competition
- Workshop on food and water security research opportunities
- Academics make an impact
- Online consultation on innovation, technological diffusion and economic growth in low-income countries
- FAO report on Climate Change implications for food security and natural resources management in Africa
- Africa College Competition: Making an Impact through Communication
- School children learn about bananas at the Africa College Discovery Zone stall
- Africa College Partnership Seminar and workshop: Stefano Padulosi, Biodiversity International, Rome
- On-line Africa College Partnership Seminar: Prof John Pickett, CBE DSc FRS, Rothamsted Research.
- Africa College Partnership Seminars: Dr David Howlett and Dr. Peter K. Kwapong
- African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Fellowships
- Africa College workshop: Food, transport and packaging
- Paula Bramel, Deputy DG, Research for Development, IITA will be visiting the University of Leeds on March 8-9th 2010
- Africa College Technical Support consignment of lab equipment reaches Tanzania
- On-line lecture: Dr Michael Metzlaff, Bayer BioScience: Engineering Stress Tolerance in Crops
- Africa College Partnership: Quarterly newsletter: January 2010
- BBSRC Workshop perspectives by Mathew Abang
- BBSRC Excellence with Impact competition update
- On-line lecture: Prof. Ingo Potrykus, Is Golden Rice a GMO which will rescue the eyesight and lives of many children?
- Workshop: BBSRC sponsored Peri-urban Workshop 11-14th Jan 2010. Astbury level 11 and CPS Seminar Room, 6.90 Manton.
- Meeting summary: Africa College Workshop on Climate, Ecosystems and Society. 1st Dec 2009.
- Research without boundaries goes live with RWB forum
- First Africa College Quarterly Newsletter
- BBC 'Costing the Earth' interview
- 2 billion pounds needed for science 'Grand Challenge' to help feed the world
- Crop Scientists Visit Leeds University
- AAB symposium on Agriculture
- Workshop on Sustainable peri-urban vegetable production for nutritional food security in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Africa Call Infoday (FP7-AFRICA-2010)
- BBSRC Excellence with Impact Awards visit.
- Climate Change workshop in Malawi
- Climate change feedbacks in Kalahari rangelands
- University welcomes first Africa College visiting researcher
- Tropical Crops Biotechnology Conference
- Tackling Global Food Poverty
- Tanzania commends R4D Coalition