Farmer-Led Action and Innovation for Nature Restoration: How Can We Better Support It?

18th November 2026

University College Cork

Western Gateway Building, Room WGB 2.26

Registraton starts at 10:30am

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Join farmers, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how farmer-led environmental experimentation, knowledge, values, and entrepreneurship can help shape a more sustainable agricultural future. The event will present emerging findings from the DStream project by PI Dr Noreen Byrne & Primary Researcher Stephanie Marwood.

Our keynote speaker for the event includes Prof. Saras D. Sarasvathy. She is a a leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship and a recipient of 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. She is currently the Paul M. Hammaker Professor Emerita for Business Administration in University of Virginia, the Academic Director of Batten Institute, and the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship for Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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