Dame Helen Ghosh to deliver this year's Bledisloe Lecture at the Royal Agricultural University

Dr Deb has worked with farmers in eastern India to conserve indigenous seed diversity and, over almost two decades, he has managed to save more than 1,000 varieties of rice, all of which he stores in community-based seed banks in West Bengal and Odisha where they can be made available for farmers.
The new collaboration, which is being led by RAU Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Technology Dr Patricia Mathabe, the Cirencester-based university is working with the Women's University in Africa (WUA), in Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare, to develop a one-year Foundation Certificate in Horticulture and Agriculture.
2 April 2025
Yet there is no more land. If we want to meet these targets, we need to be innovative with how we use the land we have.
Andy, who sold his music rights to buy a farm in France in 2013 after hearing about the horrors of the industrial food system, will be joining the RAU’s Professor of Agriculture Nicola Cannon for their lecture