JOHN LIDWELL-DURNIN

Faculty of History

John's current research focuses on food production, population, race, and heredity in the British Empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in how eighteenth-century efforts to develop statistical approaches to land management, food production, and to understand the natural wealth of countries, informed present-day ideas about food security, environment, and global food markets. My forthcoming book explores the global and imperial reach of Britain's first Board of Agriculture (founded in 1793). I am also interested in contemporary debates over food security, crop genetic diversity, and conservation.