Ethical trade, sustainability, community development, social justice, horticulture, South Africa, Norfolk, cricket.
Coventry University UK
Joined March 2014
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Valentine's Day approaches and what a year it has been for flower growers across the world. @JillLTimms & I are delighted to report upon our involvement in a collaborative project supporting producers in Kenya. @FairtradeUK @TraidcraftDepth @RachelWilshaw
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🌹 This #ValentinesDay, think beyond the bouquet!
Professor @DaveDBRS explores the future of #SustainableFlowers:
🌍 Stronger standards
🌱 Local blooms
👩🌾 Lower carbon
🤝 Fairer wages
💚 Change is happening
Read more🔗 theconversation.com/why-low-…
ALT David Bek
ALT Flowers
Absolutely fantastic to host this event with @JillLTimms. Super engagement from the cut flower industry.
Yesterday @CovUni_CCE launched a new booklet on sustainability in floriculture at Coventry Cathedral! 🌸
Experts & collaborators showcased eco-friendly designs & discussed reducing plastics & waste for a greener floral future 🌷🌿
Check out the stunning floral displays 🩷 ⬇️
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Big day for our #sustainableflowers research. The wg @DaveDBRS & I lead, launched guide on Plastics, Packaging & Waste with 50+ flower industry folk @CovCathedral Our new Knowledge Exchange Hub is live sustainableflowersresearch.o… with our new logo & we’re now on LinkedIn & Insta too!
Fantastic event, spectacularly well organised. A real privilege to be part of it. Thank you to all involved. @CovUni_CCE – at Kempton Park, South Africa
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Fantastic to be part of event exploring inequality in global value chains. Organised by @PIPS_conf @CCRED_UJ Johannesburg @CovUni_CCE
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☀️ Sun is shining & just found out from brilliant @NoraLanari that our paper with @DaveDBRS & Lyndon Simkin is out in the world. Managing 💦 risk in global value chains for environmental upgrading, using fruit 🍇🍋🍑exports from 🇿🇦as case study 💚@SurreySociology @SurreySustain
Fantastic workshop discussing sustainability in the cut-flower sector. Thanks to @organicblooms for hosting. Much progress made towards identifying key principles of sustainable flower growing and floristry.
@AngelaCoulton @fgflowers @JillLTimms @Flowers_ft_Farm @CBiS_CovUni
The floral displays created for the King and Queen’s Coronation in Westminster Abbey were made up of seasonal British grown flowers and foliage. Produce was sourced from five Royal Horticultural Society gardens and eighty-eight sma…lnkd.in/eeJ5Pnpj lnkd.in/evnDUXY5
Great day's play in WYC Final. Tense and highly skilled. But the abysmal over rates cannot go unchallenged. 13 overs short?? Spurious drinks and physio breaks, general dawdling. Please comment @gradecricketer @Final_Word_Pod – at Lambeth, London
A significant step for the 'local and seasonal' cut-flower movement as Westminster Abbey's floral displays will be sourced from British small scale growers. #Coronation2023 Well done @Flowers_ft_Farm!! #sustainableflowers @JillLTimms @CBiS_CovUni
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Excellent event organised by @FairtradeUK fascinating insights into impacts of FT upon people and environment on @FairtradeAfrica farms. Momentum building for UK Sustainability Network @CBiS_CovUni
Great venue @GardenMuseumLDN for brilliant #fairtradeflowers event. Thanks for invite to discuss our work on #sustainableflowers & UK Sustainable Floriculture Network with @DaveDBRS @IDHTrade. Flowers, working conditions, pay, standards & impacts. @SurreySociology @SurreySustain
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We are looking for more researchers to join our team. If you're an academic interested in responsible business then consider coming to work at @CBiS_CovUni More information can be found in our recent newsletter: coventry.ac.uk/globalassets/…
Fascinating and exciting event on the Future of Food. More details and sign up below.
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Future of Food Symposium 2023: The Role of Community Organisations in Fighting Food Poverty
@cbis @FareShareUK @FareShareMids @UoNFutureFood @jhnhrvy @DaveDBRS @foodcycle eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron…
Huge thanks to all at Brunswick for providing this opportunity for Zara to participate in this event as part of the work of the 'Socio-economic Diversity Network'. Widening engagement and participation across society remains one of the biggest challenges…lnkd.in/eH7Tm72x
'The aim to capture and use all edible food surpluses must be treated as a government priority'.
See below for more information about our research outcomes and the policy implications. lnkd.in/eYM52vzh
Excellent online roundtable table discussing how the UK flower industry can work together to become more sustainable. Very engaged and constructive response from participants drawn from across the sector. Big challenges such as climate change, living wag…lnkd.in/eaxGSxRP
At COP27 last week, UN secretary general António Guterres proclaimed that humanity is on a ‘highway to climate hell’. Accurate measurement and reporting of carbon (and other) footprints is needed so appropriate mitigation measure…lnkd.in/emESuVpV lnkd.in/eY-byV_n
Great to present with @OakPattanapong today at #RGSIBG22 and share findings about edible insect industry in Thailand. A solution to the Sustainable protein question? @CBiS_CovUni @jennywrenwatts @WovenNetwork
@DaveDBRS from @CBiS_CovUni explaining why edible insects are good for human consumption and the environment at the #RGSIBG22 conference #edibleinsects
Thoughts?? Videos in the aisles quoting 'low carbon products' then a shelf load of these. Lovely range of fake flowers...sigh @Shitlawns @TheRangeUK
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Wonderful to be at the launch of @FareShareMids new #surplus meal production service
Great to hear our @CBiS_CovUni research mentioned in the opening speech!
@DaveDBRS @jlazell @sainsburys @MyNottingham @FareShareUK
