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Announced: 6th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit – Brasilia, Brazil, August 2018
First announcement 6th SUSTAINABLE PHOSPHORUS SUMMIT (SPS 2018) 20-22 August 2018 On behalf of the international scientific committee and local organizing committee it is a pleasure for me to announce that the 6th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit (SPS 2018) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, from 20th to 22nd August, 2018. SPS 2018 is the sixth […]
Launched: International Phosphorus Task Team
The United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) launched its’ Phosphorus Task Team at an inaugural meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, 15th-16th September. The meeting was hosted by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, one of the collaborating partners within the GPNM. The meeting sought to identify the support role of the Task Team within […]
Announced: 5th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit to take place in Kunming, China, August 2016
The 5th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit (SPS 2016) 16th-20th August, 2016 Kunming, China 16th August: Registration 17th-19th August: oral and poster sessions 20th August: field trip Kunming is the capital city of Yunnan Province, which is a global “Hot Spot” of biodiversity, as well as the diversity center of Chinese culture gathering 24 minority groups with their own cultures, food and customs as well […]
Mapping Sydney’s phosphorus supply and demand
Dr Metson inspecting parsely during a recent field trip to a market garden in the Greater Sydney Basin Cities concentrate people and by doing so they concentrate both the demand for food which needs phosphorus to grow and the generation of phosphorus-rich organic waste. Visiting scholar Dr. Geneviève Metson is currently mapping sources and demands […]
Should access to phosphorus be a human right?
Source: SciDevNet Copyright: Flickr/IITA Food is a fundamental human right, as set down by international human rights treaties and, often, national constitutions.But the right to food cannot be ensured without a corresponding right to phosphorus, as some scientists pointed out at the Sustainable Phosphorus Summit 2014 earlier this month in Montpellier, France.The idea of phosphorus as a human […]
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Announced: 6th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit – Brasilia, Brazil, August 2018
First announcement 6th SUSTAINABLE PHOSPHORUS SUMMIT (SPS 2018) 20-22 August 2018 On behalf of the international scientific committee and local organizing committee it is a pleasure for me to announce that the 6th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit (SPS 2018) will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, from 20th to 22nd August, 2018. SPS 2018 is the sixth […]
Launched: International Phosphorus Task Team
The United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) launched its’ Phosphorus Task Team at an inaugural meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, 15th-16th September. The meeting was hosted by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, one of the collaborating partners within the GPNM. The meeting sought to identify the support role of the Task Team within […]
Announced: 5th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit to take place in Kunming, China, August 2016
The 5th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit (SPS 2016) 16th-20th August, 2016 Kunming, China 16th August: Registration 17th-19th August: oral and poster sessions 20th August: field trip Kunming is the capital city of Yunnan Province, which is a global “Hot Spot” of biodiversity, as well as the diversity center of Chinese culture gathering 24 minority groups with their own cultures, food and customs as well […]
Resource governance, geopolitics & social responsibility: the case of phosphorus
WORKSHOP 3:00-4:30pm Tuesday 2nd June 2015 World Resources Forum Asia-Pacific University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Chair: Prof Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS One of the world’s most critical and strategic resources, phosphorus, is also one of the most under-discussed. Without phosphorus, we could not produce food. All nations and […]
Feeding more than nine billion by 2050: challenges and opportunities
Public Event: 22nd April 2015, Canberra & Copenhagen. Crawford School of Public Policy, FE2W Network and the OECD Co-operative Research Programme on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems are launching a special issue of the Food Security journal with events in both Canberra and Copenhagen. This issue looks at challenges and opportunities of sustainable food supply. Since the food […]