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The Vet Record PodcastEpisode 8: The future of bovine TB control: vaccination, traceability and eradication?Sir Charles Godfrey's expert panel on bovine TB (bTB) recently updated the government on the latest evidence pertaining to the epidemic. Defra is expected to publish a new strategy next year setting out how it plans to eradicate the disease in England by 2038. Is eradication by 2038 still feasible? What has to change to enable the deadline to be hit? In this episode Godfray, together with vet and Cambridge epidemiologist James Wood, explain why the endemic status of bTB should not lead to a mindset of 'living with it' and why there is still cause for hope amid the misery...
2025-10-0243 min
Farming Today06/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Bovine TB strategy review, rural racism, algal blooms, short strawThere should be more urgency and a bigger budget to tackle TB in cattle in England while farmers should be empowered to do more to eradicate the disease. Those are headlines from a new report published today. It also calls for a bovine TB tzar to co-ordinate government policy along with investment in IT systems, vaccination and testing. We hear from the report's author, Professor Sir Charles Godfray, the Badger Trust and the National Farmers' Union.The blue green algae on Lough Neagh has had a big impact on residents and businesses this summer.Researchers...
2025-09-0725 minFarming Today04/09/2025 New bovine TB strategy review, Welsh meat promotion reformThere should be more urgency and a bigger budget to tackle TB in cattle in England while farmers should be empowered to do more to eradicate the disease. Those are headlines from a new report published today. It also calls for a bovine TB tzar to co-ordinate government policy along with investment in IT systems, vaccination and testing. We hear from the report's author, Professor Sir Charles Godfray, the Badger Trust and the National Farmers' Union.Major changes are needed to rebuild trust in the body responsible for promoting Welsh meat, that's according to an inquiry by...
2025-09-0413 min
A Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: 'The Fly Trap' and 'As If Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence'Professor Sir Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Fly Trap' by Fredrik Sjöberg and 'As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence' by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. Professor Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg and As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson.
The Fly Trap describes the life of the author on a remote island in the Swedish archipelago where he hunts for hoverflies. Partly autobiographical, partly a discourse on insects, collecting, and the life of some extraordinary butterfly collectors, it is an en...
2025-01-2446 minA Good Science ReadA Good Science Read: 'The Fly Trap' and 'As If Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence'Professor Sir Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg and As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. Professor Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg and As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson.
The Fly Trap describes the life of the author on a remote island in the Swedish archipelago where he hunts for hoverflies. Partly autobiographical, partly a discourse on insects, collecting, and the life of some extraordinary butterfly collectors, it is an en...
2025-01-2446 min
DiscoveryThe Life Scientific: Charles GodfrayProfessor Charles Godfray, Director of the the Oxford Martin School tells Jim Al-Kahlili about the intricate world of population dynamics, and how a healthy obsession with parasitic wasps might help us solve some of humanity's biggest problems, from the fight against Malaria to sustainably feeding a global community of 9 billion people.
2024-08-2627 min
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsBook talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet'Hannah Ritchie discusses her new book 'Not the end of the world' with Prof Charles Godfray. We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
But in this talk, data scientist Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet will discuss with Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School, that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges.
They will discuss how...
2024-05-201h 00
The Life ScientificSir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion peopleProfessor Charles Godfray, Director of the the Oxford Martin School tells Jim Al-Kahlili about the intricate world of population dynamics, and how a healthy obsession with parasitic wasps might help us solve some of humanity's biggest problems, from the fight against Malaria to sustainably feeding a global community of 9 billion people.
2024-03-1928 min
Collège de France - SélectionGrand événement - Vers une société résiliente au changement climatique / Building a Climate Resilient Society : Feeding 10 Billion SustainablyCollège de FranceAnnée 2023-2024Grand événementGrand événement - Vers une société résiliente au changement climatique / Building a Climate Resilient Society : Feeding 10 Billion SustainablySir Charles GodfrayCBE FRS, University of Oxford
2024-01-2523 min
The Farmers Weekly PodcastIs UK food security under threat? What cereal levy rise means for growers, how to combat climate change profitably, Level the Field campaign promotes equality in agriculture, & Coronation Food ProjectThis week, will government targets to protect 30% of UK land leave enough left to maintain UK food security?We try to find out by asking the head of agriculture at Natural England, the government's landscape agency.We know agriculture is part of the problem when it comes to climate change – but how can farmers ensure it is part of the solution too?What options are there for farmers how do we make agriculture fairer, more equitable and more inviting for women.We discuss the launch of a new Farmers Weekly's campaign – and...
2023-11-1047 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsTime To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisisAfter a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will discuss the ongoing climate crisis. In the run up to COP28, Sir Alok will describe his hopes for the summit and his views on the future of the COP process, as well as the role of the UK in international climate policy. He will explore the importance of business in tackling climate change, and the challenges of financing the scale of climate action required. And climate action requires...
2023-10-3149 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsTime To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisisAfter a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will discuss the ongoing climate crisis. In the run up to COP28, Sir Alok will describe his hopes for the summit and his views on the future of the COP process, as well as the role of the UK in international climate policy. He will explore the importance of business in tackling climate change, and the challenges of financing the scale of climate action required. And climate action requires...
2023-10-3149 min
Fruitnet podcasts95 · Sir Charles Godfray, Oxford UniversitySir Charles Godfray gave this year's prestigious City Food & Drink Lecture in London. He talks to Chris White about how the food system needs to change to adapt to the challenges of population growth and climate change. It's good news for our business of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global audience that tunes in to hear exclusive interviews and analysis about fresh fruits and vegetables. Fruitbox is produced by Fruitnet Media International.
To tell your story on Fruitbox, email chris@fruitnet.com
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2023-06-0119 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsBook talk: 'Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning' with Claire Craig & Sarah DillonClaire Craig and Sarah Dillon discuss their new book. There is an urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning.
The challenges of using scientific evidence, of distinguishing news from fake news, and of acting well in anticipation of highly uncertain futures, are more visible now than ever before. Across all these areas of public reasoning, stories create profound new knowledge and so deserve to be taken seriously.
The two authors, Claire Craig, Provost of The Queen’s College, and Sarah Dillon, Professor of Literature and the Public Humanities at the University of Cambridge, talk to Ch...
2022-06-151h 00
Foundation for Science and TechnologyProfessor Sir Charles Godfray - COP26: Where do we go from here?This is the second of two podcasts where we are looking at the outcomes of the COP26 Climate Summit held in Glasgow, and asking what does this mean now for policy and action in the UK. With us to discuss that is Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford.
2021-12-0223 min
Feed: a food systems podcastPat Mooney and Charles Godfray debate the future of food systemsJust three decades ago, the world looked very different: smartphones wouldn't appear for another 15 years, and in the world of food, the organic and local farming movements looked very different than they do today. Moving three decades into the future, what might food systems look like in 2050? We speak with Charles Godfray, director of the Oxford Martin School, and Pat Mooney, executive director of the ETC group, and ask what their ideal food future is, how to get there and what they are most concerned about.For more info and transcript, please visit: http://tabledebates.org/podcast...
2021-10-2643 min
Planet Pod's PodcastThe Future of FoodWhat are the challenges facing the food industry in the 20th Century? Are our supply chains resilient? Is the food industry sustainable? What role does technology play in more sustainable food production? We explore every aspect of food with Matt Reynolds, science editor at WIRED UK and author of The Future of Food and Sir Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin School, population biologist and Lead Researcher on The Oxford Martin Programme on The Future of Food. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-10-2246 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsRethinking planetary prosperity: are we measuring what we value?Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss how we can rebuild new economies in a way that ensures global prosperity. The recently published Dasgupta Review has made a strong call for the fundamental rebuilding of economic models in ways that inherently value Nature. These are welcome findings, coming at a time when existing economic structures, extractive systems and patterns of consumption are eroding ecological resilience and exceeding planetary limits.
Yet the imperative for new economies that value biodiversity and ecosystem health as foundational for human wellbeing leaves us with a host of challenges and opportunities centred...
2021-06-2559 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsThinking again about the future and prospects for humanityIn conversation with Charles Godfray, Martin Rees will explore how the global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic might change the way societies and policymakers grapple with the major challenges of the 21st century.
2021-03-151h 00Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsGreed is dead: politics after individualismEconomists Paul Collier and John Kay discuss their book, Greed is Dead, with Sir Charles Godfray Throughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit.
These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those paralysed by discord, the difference between prosperous and poor economies. In their 2020 book, Greed is Dead, the leading economists Paul Collier and John Kay argue that extreme individualism has today weakened co-operation and polarised our politics, and call for a reaffirmation of the values of mutuality across the social, political and business spheres.
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2021-03-091h 00Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsGreed is dead: politics after individualismEconomists Paul Collier and John Kay discuss their book, Greed is Dead, with Sir Charles Godfray Throughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit.
These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those paralysed by discord, the difference between prosperous and poor economies. In their 2020 book, Greed is Dead, the leading economists Paul Collier and John Kay argue that extreme individualism has today weakened co-operation and polarised our politics, and call for a reaffirmation of the values of mutuality across the social, political and business spheres.
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2021-03-091h 00Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsGreed is dead: politics after individualismEconomists Paul Collier and John Kay discuss their book, Greed is Dead, with Sir Charles Godfray Throughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit.
These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those paralysed by discord, the difference between prosperous and poor economies. In their 2020 book, Greed is Dead, the leading economists Paul Collier and John Kay argue that extreme individualism has today weakened co-operation and polarised our politics, and call for a reaffirmation of the values of mutuality across the social, political and business spheres.
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2021-03-091h 00Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsProtein structure and AI: the excitement about the recent advance made by Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold ProgrammeWhy is it important to understand the 3-D structures of protein, why are they difficult to construct, and what is the nature of AlphaFold’s advance? Why is this so exciting and what further advances in medicine and the other biosciences may result? On the 30th November it was announced that the Artificial Intelligence computer programme AlphaFold had made a decisive breakthrough in the determination of the 3-D structures of proteins.
The announcement was immediately hailed as one of the major scientific advances of the decade. To find out why, join a conversation between Yvonne Jones, Director, Cancer Research UK Re...
2021-02-181h 01Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsRethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemicProf Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity. The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.
Excess weight has long been known to be a risk factor for ill-health, though governments have rarely encouraged weight loss, and have even been cautious about interventions which may help to prevent obesity developing, for fear of accusations of ‘na...
2021-02-0959 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsRethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemicProf Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity. The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.
Excess weight has long been known to be a risk factor for ill-health, though governments have rarely encouraged weight loss, and have even been cautious about interventions which may help to prevent obesity developing, for fear of accusations of ‘na...
2021-02-0959 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsHealthcare after the COVID-19 pandemic: the walls are coming downJoin Professor Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine and Professor Sir Charles Godfray as they discuss how the healthcare system has had to adapt due to the Covid-19 pandemic and what this means in the future.
2021-02-0459 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsResetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID world (Transcript)Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss our relationship with nature, how it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we need to do differently in the future. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected both wildlife and our relationship to it.
This includes calls to ban the wildlife trade, highlighting the relationship between conservation and public health, and what became of the “2020 biodiversity super-year”.
Join Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland, Lead Researcher of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade and Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School as they discuss how wider economic shoc...
2020-11-1700 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsResetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID worldProfessor E.J. Milner-Gulland and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss our relationship with nature, how it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we need to do differently in the future. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected both wildlife and our relationship to it.
This includes calls to ban the wildlife trade, highlighting the relationship between conservation and public health, and what became of the “2020 biodiversity super-year”.
Join Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland, Lead Researcher of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade and Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School as they discuss how wider economic shoc...
2020-11-1759 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsResetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID worldProfessor E.J. Milner-Gulland and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss our relationship with nature, how it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we need to do differently in the future. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected both wildlife and our relationship to it.
This includes calls to ban the wildlife trade, highlighting the relationship between conservation and public health, and what became of the “2020 biodiversity super-year”.
Join Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland, Lead Researcher of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade and Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School as they discuss how wider economic shoc...
2020-11-1759 min
GES Center Lectures, NC State UniversitySir Charles Godfray - Can we feed the world without wrecking the environment?Lecture: Sir Charles Godfray - Can we feed the world without wrecking the environment?
VIDEO: Watch on YouTube, or on Mediasite (allows toggling between video and slides)
Monday, January 13, 7 - 8:30 pm, Hunt Library Auditorium
Presented by the Genetic Engineering and Society Center in collaboration with the Genetics and Genomic Initiative at NC State and the Society for Risk Analysis.
We can now imagine a future where humanity’s demands of the earth plateau or even decrease. But at that plateau there will be billions more people needing to be fed than exist today.
2020-01-151h 25
Building Peace 2010 to 2019OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Options for a Global Food SystemProfessor Sir Charles Godfray (Oxford Martin School) presents 'Options for a Global Food System' at OxPeace 2019.
2019-07-0833 min
Videnskabeligt Udfordret#1.24: Xenomorph rape cultureWelcome! To an evening of horrifying tales of science that are sure to chill you to the very core.I Spækbrættets halloween-klimaks udforsker vi verdens virkelige monstre, seriemordere og falsk feminisme. Det skal handle om den allermest uhyggelige videnskab, du overhovedet kan tænke dig til; velkommen! Til Spækbrættets uhyggeligste afsnit, nogensinde!Køb vores merch! bit.ly/spækshopGiv os fem stjerner på iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/dk/podcast/spækbrættet/id1391141040?mt=2Send os water hilarious science eller stil et spørgsmål på facebook...
2018-10-301h 12
tbs eFM PrimetimeGlobal Food Crisis On The HorizonPrime Interview with Professor Charles Godfray (Zoology / University of Oxford)
2016-06-0700 minBioAcoustica Talks PodcastCharles Godfray: Darwin's nightmare: what parasitoid wasps tell us about ecology and evolution.The third (2001) Frederick W. Edwards lecture held at the Natural History Museum, London, supported by the Royal Entomological Society.
2015-10-2156 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsIs the Planet Full?Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi discuss whether the planet is full. The panel will discuss the whether our planet can continue to support a growing population estimated to reach 10 billion people by the middle of the century?
2015-02-1755 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsIs the Planet Full?Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi discuss whether the planet is full. The panel will discuss the whether our planet can continue to support a growing population estimated to reach 10 billion people by the middle of the century?
2015-02-1755 min
The New Phytologist FoundationWhat do we mean when we talk about sustainable intensification? - Charles GodfrayPlenary lecture by Charles Godfray, University of Oxford entitled 'What do we mean when we talk about sustainable intensification?' This lecture took place during the New Phytologist next generation scientists conference, held at the John Innes Centre in July 2014 (http://www.newphytologist.org/nextgensci). New Phytologist next generation scientists was a unique event, fully funded by the New Phytologist Trust and Wiley, which aimed to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and leading international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.
Audio recorded and produced by Leeds Media...
2015-01-1300 min
Costing the EarthThe Future of Our FoodCosting the Earth debates one of the most important issues facing the planet that affects all of us: Where will our food come from in the decades ahead.The world population is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2050. That's another 2.5 billion mouths to feed, roughly the number of people currently living in China and India today.Tom Heap is joined by an panel to chew over the question of what the world will eat as populations rise, climate changes and vital resources are depleted.The panel is made up of experts from the...
2014-05-0628 min
Is the planet full? Seminar Series 2011How can 9-10 billion people be fed sustainably and equitably by 2050?Talk by Professor Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food. The global food system is undergoing a significant phase change that will see an end to the historically low food prices that we have experienced over the last four decades. Challenges on both the supply and demand side suggest that if current trends and practices continue we shall see very significant increases in food prices with threats to the sustainability of food production and particular harm to the world's poorest. This talk explores how food supply, food demand, and food system efficiency and governance needs to...
2011-11-0956 min