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Geoff Tansey speaks to QCA AGM
21 May 2016, London
Geoff Tansey, guest speaker at Quaker Concern for Animals's Annual General Meeting, will talk on food issues including the impact of rearing livestock on climate change, marketing pressure on humans to eat meat and the patenting of life forms.
Geoff is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University and at the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University. He has worked on various agricultural development projects in countries including Turkey, Albania, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. As a writer he has travelled widely and contributed to specialist magazines and newspapers and various journals. He co-edited with Tasmin Rajotte the award-winning, The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security. In 2005, he won one of the six Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust 'Visionaries for a Just and Peaceful World' awards.
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Thomas Bonneville
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