Greening the Food on Your Plate: Green Food and Farming Ideas with lovely receipes

About Maria MadiMichelle Gale De OliveiraMiriam KennetRose Blunkett-OrdTracy Worcester

Rose Blackett - Ord is a professional cookery writer and Cordon Bleu chef! Miriam Kennet and Michelle Gale are well known green economics writers and they have teamed up to write a wonderful illustrated cookery book showing you how to forage gather and generally experience the gifts of the wild ! most inspiring !Helen Albrecht In recent years Helen has focused on interactions between different legal regimes and contact points and gaps between international regional and national legislation with particular focus on energy and food supply. Having published and given presentations for The Green Economics Institute and Westminster Law Review her continuous musical activities support Helen's search for humans' very own resources and capacities in addressing current economic-environmental shortcomings and to re-shape order and organisation of our global community. She has lived in the UK since 2006. After a long-standing career in music and teaching she completed her studies with an LLB in Law at Westminster University and since 2012 also holds a LLM specialist degree in 'Environmental Law and Policy' from University College London. Rose Blackett-Ord is a graduate of Oxford University and Le Cordon Bleu. She now works as a freelance chef and writer and has a particular interest in rural and green issues relating to food. Her work includes local seasonal and wild food recipes. Rose writes green and gourmet recipes for a number of publications including for the Green Economics Institute where she co-edited a number of books including Green Economics: the Greening of Food Farming and Agriculture andthe Greening of Poetry and the Arts. Henry Cox grew up while power in farming came from horses and humans was taught nutrition in school when the wartime diet was enforced; and saw walled gardens while they were in use not in tourism. Sometimes helping in gardens and occasionally in farms. His paid work was in Electronics often applied to the control of large systems including those of infrastructure. Some of these systems were installed abroad taking him to Australia and to NE India: so he saw tropical agriculture and bananas wild in the jungle. Now long retired from paid work he has continued to do non-money work for other households on gardens and some house repairs seeing a variety of social situations; as well as growing his own vegetables and fruit. With more time he has been active in the green movement from the 1983 Green Gathering of some 3000 people. He has presented papers at the Green Economics Conferences since 2009. Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira is a Director of the Green Economics Institute UK. She studied at International Relations Department at Richmond the American International University in London (RAIUL) and at SOAS London University and lives in the remote rainforest in Brazil. She has edited the Green Economics Institute's members' magazine The Green Economist and is a deputy editor for the International Journal of Green Economics. Her writing has been featured in Europe's World one of the foremost European policy magazines. She lectures and speaks on Environmental and Social Justice Gender Equity and International Development from a Green Economics perspective. She is founder/ chair of the Gender Equity Forum. She organised a Green Economics conference on women's unequal pay and poverty in Reading UK and lectured on green economics in Berlin Germany at retreats in Glastonbury UK and and the American University in FYRO Macedonia. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and was on the Green Economics Institute's Delegation to Copenhagen COP15 Kyoto Conference and headed up its delegation to Cancun Mexico COP16 Kyoto Conference. Sandra Gusta has a degree in engineering economics from Riga Technical University and has worked as a lecturer in Latvia at the University of Agriculture. In 1992 she earned a master's degree. Then she studied economics In Riga Technical University and in 2006 she was awarded a doctorate in economics in the Faculty of Engineering Economics Institute of Production and Entrepreneurship. She is assist. Prof. at the Department of Architecture and Building at Latvia University of Agriculture Doctor of Management Sciences in Economics. One of founders and member of the Board of the LEA (Latvian Association of Economics) Member of the Latvian Association of Civil Engineers Education and Science section. Her research interests include: macroeconomics and sustainable development environmental management sustainable buildings and building management waste management. Manan Jain is an MBA graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Shillong and is a budding professional passionate about sustainability and green technologies. He has over two years of experience working in Green IT with Hewlett Packard. He has presented innovative green ideas in the annual worldwide technical conference of Hewlett Packard and has also provided consultancy and advisory services for the implementation of an agro-forestry project in Meghalaya (India). His professional interests include proposing and bringing newer green technologies to market in order to bring a more sustainable development in the business sector and in society as well. Kasazlinda Jamal is an Agriculture Officer at the Department of Agriculture in Malaysia. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Agribusiness at the Department of Agribusiness and Information Systems Faculty of Agriculture University of Putra Malaysia. Her research areas include the acceptance and adoption of fragrant rice farming among rice supply chain players in Malaysia. Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agribusiness and Information Systems Faculty of Agriculture University of Putra Malaysia. She received a PhD in Management Science from Lancaster University United Kingdom. Her research interests include sustainable agriculture green logistics reverse logistics green supply chains e-supply chains supply management e-procurement and sustainable procurement. Katherine Kennet is a medical doctor trained at Imperial College London University UK. She is based in the UK and has practised medicine in Nepal as well. Her research focus is on women's health status and the link to wealth and poverty. She has written extensively on materal healthcare in India and outcomes for maternal health and wellbeing in Nepal. Miriam Kennet is a Co-Founder and the CEO of the Green Economics Institute and a publisher and writer of over 25 books. She is the founder and the Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics the first green academic journal in the world which is published by Inderscience Publishers. Miriam is a member of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute where she was trained in climate science and modelling. She runs regular conferences and events on Green Economics at Oxford University for the Green Economics Institute. She has taught Sustainable Development to UK government departments for the National Government School and was a UK government recommendation for the IPPC as a climate scientist. She sits on the assembly of the Green European Foundation and is on the Board Member of the European Network of Political Foundations. She has 20 years experience of large engineering global infrastructure projects for a number of governments. Ryota Koike is a researcher from Japan analysing post-Fukushima Japanese energy policies. He has a broad range of academic interests from peace and development to environmental and nuclear issues. He is a regular speaker and a trainer in workshops and a popular lecturer on green economics and energy policy including at a conference held at Oxford University. He is also the creator and editor of a 20th and 21st century philosophy book series by Ashgate Academic Publishers which deals with nuclear and other Holocausts. Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming. Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi has a PhD in Economics and is a professor and researcher at the Instituto de Economia State University of Campinas Brazil. She is the author of Monetary Policy in Brazil: a Post-Keynesian interpretation and her recent publications include: Corporate social responsibility: credit and banking inclusion in Brazil; Financialization Employability and their Impacts on the Bank Workers' Union Movement in Brazil (1994-2004). Bianca Madison-Vuleta is an expert in the areas of holistic ecological and sustainable living. She is a PhD candidate in Green Economics. Bianca has been actively involved in the work of numerous national and international human rights and environmental NGOs as a committed and inspired campaigner fundraiser and public speaker. A passionate humanitarian and environmentalist and Co-founder of The Sustainable Planet Foundation Bianca works tirelessly to be the change in the world. Anusha Mahendran is a researcher based at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia who is affiliated with the Women in Social & Economic Research (WiSER) unit and also the Centre for Research in Applied Economics (CRAE). She has conducted research in a diverse range of fields including labour gender housing and welfare economics. Some of her key interest areas include Development Economics Political Economy Heterodox Economics and issues relating to Social and Gender Equity. Anusha attended the 2nd Annual Green Economics Conference and presented a refereed paper at the 4th Annual Green Economics Conference. Anusha has also published a refereed article in the International Journal of Green Economics which she co-authored with Dr Therese Jefferson. Igor A. Makarov is a Lecturer of Environmental Economics and Politics at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow Russia) and a researcher at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the same university. The areas of his professional interest include international climate change economics and policy international economics of water and food scarcity. He is the author of various articles on the economic aspects of climate change food and water scarcity and their impacts on the Russian economy in leading Russian academic journals. Ludmila Maslovska is a Doctor of Economics Professor of Zhytomyr National Agroecological University Her field of research is Green economy and sustainable development of Ukraine's regions. Ludmila has more than 120 scientific publications. Mahelet Alemayehu Mekonnen is an Ethiopian economist and graduate of Richmond the American International University in London (RAIUL). She is a co-editor of Green Economics: Voices of Africa coordinated a number of events on Green Economics and is currently involved in a green seed distribution company in Ethiopia. Isayvani Naicker is researching Geography at the University of Cambridge looking at the interaction of science and policy in society focused on a case study of biodiversity conservation in South Africa. Her previous degrees include a Master of Science (Geology) from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and Master of Science (Philosophy of Social Science) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in he UK. She works in the environmental and sustainable development fields in Africa. Nolila Mohd. Nawi is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agribusiness and Information Systems Faculty of Agriculture University of Putra Malaysia. Completing undergraduate and master studies in Agribusiness at University of Putra Malaysia and obtained her PhD from Curtin University Western Australia in 2009. Her areas of interest are agribusiness marketing relationship marketing and supply chain management. Kristof and Stacia Nordin are the co-founders of Never Ending Food a community-based endeavor to improve the health of the planet and living organisms through the use of natural restorative and sustainable design principles. They have been working in Malawi since 1997 in the areas of HIV food security nutrition and community education. Stacia is a Registered Dietitian and Kristof is a Writer with a background in Social Work and Community Organizing. They both hold Diplomas in Permaculture Design. Modrite Pelse was born in the town of Auce in 1964. In 1987 she obtained a degree in agronomy and started working as an agronomist a specialist in agriculture. In the 1990's she studied economics and earned a master's degree in economics. Afterwards she entered doctoral studies. Simultaneously she started working at the Faculty of Economics of Latvia University of Agriculture as an academic. In 2007 she was awarded a doctorate in economics. Since 2008 Modrite Pelse has been the head of the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Economics Latvia University of Agriculture and since 2010 she has been an associate professor. Her present research interests include: agricultural economics - renewable energy sources. Vyacheslav Potapenko is currently the chief consultant of environmental safety of the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine. From 2007 to 2010 worked as a consultant to a member of Parliament. From 2005 to 2006 was Head of the Secretariat of the Green Party of Ukraine. In 2000-2004 worked as associate professor of Kyiv National University Taras Shevchenko and 1999-2000 at The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 1996-1998 he was head of the Laboratory of GIS modeling radioactive contaminated areas of the Institute of Radioecology of Ukrainian Agrarian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Kyiv National University Taras Shevchenko in 1992 specializing geo-ecology in 1996 obtained a PhD for his thesis Methods of landscape ecological analysis and evaluation of administrative district at the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2005 he received a Master of Public Administration in the National Academy of Public Administration of Ukraine. The topic of thesis was devoted to economic and legal aspects of environmental safety. He has published over 60 scientific papers on environmental and economic security GIS modeling of environmental pollution by thermal and nuclear plants Chernobyl and public administration. Mark Prichard has been keeping bees on and off since 1979. He has a Masters Degree in Education and has taught various institutions including Newcastle and Durham Universities. In addition to this he has taught Beekeeping on Adult Education courses at Cumbria University. Mark and his wife Kym have been running Beekeeping Courses together since 2008. They also give advice to farmers and amateurs on how to make their land more Bee Friendly and on the selection of trees bushes hedges and wildflowers to be planted and where and how to do so. Kym Prichard has been keeping bees for the last 9 years and also has experience teaching in various scenarios. She has a degree in molecular biology and a Post Graduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Adelaide Australia. Along with her husband Mark Kym has developed and adapted all her knowledge in this field of work to be in a position to advise farmers and landowners on how to make their land more Bee Supportive and on the selection of trees bushes hedges and wildflowers to be planted in order to strategically create forage for honey bees. She is a community member of the NPAONB Partnership (North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). Tutik Rachmawati is researching at the Institute of Local Government Studies University of Birmingham with a fellowship from Japan-Indonesian Presidential Scholarship/World Bank. She is also a researcher in Center of Excellence in Small Medium Enterprises (SME) Development and a Lecturer in Public Administration Department of Parahyangan Catholic University. Dr. Zaiton Samdin is an Associate Professor and lecturer at the Department of Recreation and Ecotourism Faculty of Forestry at the University of Putra Malaysia. She received her PhD degree in Geography from the University of Exeter United Kingdom. Her teaching activities include Environmental Economics Principle of Economics Natural Resource Economics Forestry Economics as well as Entrepreneurship Management. Her research interests cover a range of areas including economic valuation and economics tourism which includes willingness to pay as well as ecotourism and valuation studies in national parks and protected areas. Dr. Zaiton is a member of International Association of Tourism Economics UK and has developed a research network with universities at a National and International level. Jeffrey Turk holds a doctorate in particle physics from Yale University and after working as a physicist at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) he earned an MA in transition economics at the Central European University in Budapest and then a Dphil in contemporary European Studies from the University of Sussex and a research fellow at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Adademy of Sciences and Arts where he researches realist biography and European Policy. He ran a research conference at the University of Leuwen on critical realist narrative biographical methods. He has produced many articles on Green Economics and methodological innovation. Tracy Marchioness of Worchester is a campaigner for the greening of food farming agriculture and cruelty free farming that opposes agribusiness. She is a patron of International Society and Culture a trustee of the GAIA Foundation The Schumacher Society and the UK Soil Association. Antonina Zelinska is an Associate Professor of Zhytomyr National Agroecological University. Her field of research is the formation of mechanism of sustainable development of bioenergetics in Ukraine. Antonina has more than 30 scientific publications. Holly Zheng is currently undertaking research at Bristol University on Chinese grassroots NGOs based at Tsinghua University's NGO Research Center in Beijing. Inexplicably drawn to China as a child she finally set foot there as a young adult following a detour taking her Japan where she spent an enriching couple of years working as a JET. Now firmly rooted in Beijing where she lives with her husband Zheng Shuguang she is constantly inspired by the spirit of the people with whom she works at local NGOs and is working hard to do justice to the great opportunity she has been given to learn from China's most highly esteemed scholars under Professor Wang Ming at Tsinghua University.