Ag4Dev, Spring 2020: Journal of the Tropical Agriculture Association

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No. 39, Spring 2020, Agriculture for Development: open edition

14th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture: Smarter foods | Agricultural hazard management in Bangladesh |IPPC special report Climate change and land: extended review | Getting more, much more, from tropical agriculture | Sir George Stapledon | Agriculture and rural roads | TAA 2019 AGM report | TAA 2019 Honours |Moving coastlines: farming the mudflats of Bangladesh | Digital farming and tropical agriculture.

Agriculture for Development, 39 (2020)

Contents

2 Editorial
2 Ag4Dev39: an open issue | Karim Hussein
4 Article 1
4 The 14th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture: Smarter foods – the future for our diets, health
and the environment | Andrew Bennett
11 TAAF news 1 | Jane Wilkinson, James Alden and Lydia Handford
12 Article 2
12 Agricultural hazard management in Bangladesh | Hugh Brammer
17 Article 3
17 The IPCC special report on Climate change and land: an extended review | Brian Sims
23 Newsflash 1
23 Fostering rural–urban linkages for sustainable
urbanisation and to achieve the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development | Karim Hussein
25 Article 4
25 Getting more, much more, from tropical agriculture: from ‘land failing’ to ‘land maxing’ |
Roger RB Leakey
28 International agricultural research news
28 CGIAR reform continues and diversifying diets | Geoff Hawtin
30 TAAF news 2 | Diemante Lersten
32 Article 5
32 Sir George Stapledon FRS and his international grassland legacy | Alan Hopkins and
Roger J Wilkins
37 TAAF news 3 | Shreya Pillai and Ryan Anderton
40 Newsflash 2
40 Launching collaboration between IPS News Agency and TAA/Ag4Dev | Karim Hussein
and Farhana Haque Rahman
41 Article 6
41 Agriculture and rural roads – synergies and opportunities | Robert Petts
44 Bookstack
44 On fire: the burning case for a Green New Deal (Klein N) I Brian Sims
45 The case for the Green New Deal (Pettifor A) | Brian Sims
47 Mailbox
48 TAA Forum – TAA 2019 AGM
48 TAA 2019 AGM report | Martin Evans
49 Chairman’s AGM report | Keith Virgo
52 Treasurer’s 2019 annual report and accounts| Jim Ellis-Jones
53 TAA 2019 Honours David Radcliffe
55 Young Development Agriculturist (YDA) 2019 acceptance speech: Developing climatesmart
cocoa in Ghana’s value chain: exploring industry and smallholder perspectives,
Emma Amadi. | Acceptance speech for the Development Agriculturalist 2019 Award,
Amir Kassam
63 News from the regions
63 TAA London and South-East Curry Club talk, 28 March 2019: Moving coastlines: farming
the mudflats of Bangladesh in the face of climate change | Edward Mallorie
67 TAA London and South-East Curry Club talk, London, 30 January 2020: Digital farming
and tropical agriculture | Jonathan Shoham and Alan Bullion
70 TAA South-West seminar: TAA Grasslands Seminar, Royal Agricultural University,
Cirencester, 17 October 2019 | Raymond Bartlett
73 Reminiscences and reflections
73 Enjoying an active retirement, 1987–2019 | Hugh Brammer
76 Obituary Professor Tecwyn Jones | Dai Jones
78 Upcoming eve