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GA York & District Branch
Acting Branch Secretary: John Brown
GA York Branch
12 Algarth Rise
Pocklington
YO42 2HU
Email: john@jrkbrown.plus.com
Annual Membership of the York & District Branch is £3.00 with a concessionary rate of £1.00 available to students. Evening meetings cost £1 and are held in Bootham School, Boothamgate, York.
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The importance of non-food crops and changes in EU agriculture policy and practice
Thursday 27 September 2007, 7:15pm
Mrs Lucy Hodsman from the National Non-food Crop Centre.
Regeneration in Castleford
Wednesday 31 October 2007, 7:15pm
The regeneration programme in Castleford is the subject of a TV documentary to be screened in autumn. The town and the programme are an idea focus for a day fieldwork investigation. Why not come to the lecture in preparation for a visit?
Ice - volcano interactions - a catastrophic science!
Thursday 29 November 2007, 7:15pm
Dr John Carrivick - University of Leeds
The central topic is about ice and volcanoes - what happens when they coincide and the consequent hazards as they affect human beings. Brilliant photos illustrate three sections of the syllabus - glaciation, vulcanicity and hazards.
Joint RGS-IBG / GA lecture
No development without security and no security without development
Thursday 21 January 2008, 7:15pm
Dr Adrian Leftwich
Development issues in a current context.
Sixth Form Conference / Tanzania, water basins and management
Monday 3 March 2008, time TBA
Dr Bruce Lankfard - University of East Anglia
A practical, issue-based session with working groups and discussion.
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| Have they lost their marbles? - Conflict and Cooperation over Water |
The York and District Branch held their annual Sixth Form Conference on March 3 2008. The event, held at Bootham School in York, was well attended by 90 students from a variety of institutions including York Sixth Form College, Huntington School, Barnard Castle School and indeed Bootham.
Our speaker Dr. Bruce Lankford, Head of the School of Development at the University of East Anglia, ran a fantastic workshop on resolving water scarcity conflicts. His brilliantly conceived River Basin Game, around which the workshop revolved, was very engaging and students were able to gain considerable insight into the problems caused by the failure to adequately manage water in a river basin which caused a once perennial river to become seasonal.
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Bruce developed this game in 2002 as part of his work on the Usangu wetland in Tanzania and has since used it successfully in Nigeria and South Africa to explore issues around water conflict with both farmers and government officials.
During the game students saw how so-called 'top-enders' living at the top of the drainage basin were able to take the lion's share of the water leaving the 'bottom-enders' sometimes without any water at all. The last part of the afternoon saw students speculating about what farmers with no water would have to resort to if they were to survive. Finally students were charged with playing the game co-operatively so that water was shared fairly between everybody using strategies to incentivise top-enders to share their water. These strategies and wider questions about war, conflict and water were also discussed.
Overall this was a great feel-good afternoon led by an expert with considerable experience in the subject, many thanks to all those who took part and made it such a super event.
Liz Brown – Chairman, York and District Branch
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