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Covid-19 and the UK Food System: Learning Lessons and Building Back Better

  • Date: 11 November 2022
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

New report, produced as part of the ‘Transforming UK Food Systems SPF Programme’ to explore the impact of Covid-19 across the UK food system, including food system resilience, lessons learnt and building back better.

Policy Lab on emerging food trends and their impact on the food system

  • Date: August 2019
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

GFS will hold its fourth Policy Lab for PhD students and early career researchers on the 6-8th November 2019. This event aims to synthesize the latest knowledge and evidence on emerging food trends and their impact across the food system in order to inform policy and practice.

GFS Speak Up winners present at Cheltenham Science Festival 2019

  • Date: June 2019
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

The winner and runner-up of the GFS Speak Up for Food Security research communication competition presented ‘The Problem with Food’ alongside Maia Elliott (GFS) at the popular science festival earlier this month.

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£1.8 million to help bolster resilience of UK food system

  • Date: 17 December 2018
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

Global Food Security is funding a further £1.8 million of interdisciplinary research to increase resilience of the UK food system in the final phase of the ‘Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context’ programme.

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Food First: A Policy Approach to Achieve Health and Sustainability

  • Date: 7 September 2018
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

Today a report has been published arguing for a systemic approach to food policy across governments and businesses for health and sustainability.

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Creating and connecting a community of food systems thinkers

  • Date: 23 August 2018
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

A novel approach to addressing the challenges of the food system has marked its third successful year.

Foot-and-mouth disease vaccination strategy could help reduce food insecurity in eastern Africa

  • Date: 7 August 2018
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

Research generated by scientists at University of Glasgow and The Pirbright Institute has shown that a targeted vaccination programme against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) could alleviate poverty in eastern Africa.

Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science, Andrew Thompson, RCUK Global Challenges Research Fund Champion and Dr Amanda Collis, BBSRC Executive Director, Science

International research joins forces to meet needs of countries facing global issues

  • Date: 21 July 2017
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

Leading experts from the UK and in developing countries across the world are joining forces to tackle some of the most serious global challenges in a new multidisciplinary research programme launched today.

Research programmes

  • Date: 10 March 2017
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

As a coordinator and facilitator of scientific research, with the aim of providing strong scientific evidence and influencing policy and practice, GFS identifies and convenes stakeholders and partners to develop multi-year research programmes

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Most British adults report that the effects of climate change would encourage them to change their diet

  • Date: 20 February 2017
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

According to a recent public survey commissioned by the Global Food Security (GFS) programme, many British adults recognise that the food system is a key contributor to climate change and would change their diets as a result of climate change.

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How to be a successful pest: lessons from the green peach aphid

  • Date: 14 February 2017
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

UK scientists, in collaboration with groups in Europe and the US, have discovered why the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) is one of the most destructive pests to many of our most important crops.

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Rothamsted Research granted permission by Defra to carry out field trial with GM wheat plants

  • Date: 1 February 2017
  • Author(s): Global Food Security

Rothamsted Research, which receives strategic funding from BBSRC, submitted an application 3 November 2016 to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for permission to carry out GM field trials on the Rothamsted Farm between 2017 and 2019.

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