Global Food Security Strategic Plan

Policies and strategies

Global Food Security Strategic Plan

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Date: January 2017

This document describes the GFS programme’s strategy, including its three programme themes and a number of interdisciplinary research priorities that would benefit from a food systems approach.

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BBSRC website accessibility policy

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Date: September 2013

BBSRC is committed to ensuring that its websites are accessible to everyone. People access the web in many different ways and BBSRC promotes inclusion for all, regardless of disability, capability or technology.

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Latest blog post

Hidden Hunger: Biofortified wheat and zinc deficiency in Pakistan

Date: 5 March 2018
Author(s): Heather Ohly

Zinc deficiency affects around 17% of the world’s population, mostly in developing countries. In Pakistan, the most recent national nutrition survey indicated that over 40% of women are zinc deficient. Could using a new type of flour in cooking help tackle this deficiency?

ECR Policy Lab on the determinants of food choice for healthy and sustainable diets

Date: 5 January 2018

The Global Food Security (GFS) programme invites expressions of interest from post-doctoral researchers to take part in a Policy Lab on the determinants of food choice (for example biological, social, environmental, physical and economic) and the combination of interventions across these that will lead to healthier and more sustainable diets.

CALL NOW OPEN: £1.8m available to fund successful proposals developed through an early career sandpit by @BBSRC @NERCscience @ESRC and @scotgov #ECR #funding ow.ly/QNdF30jsllc pic.twitter.com/wL9iBDNu2t

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The risk of the Gulf Stream collapsing through weakening of Amoc and how this might impact the food system was featured in our tipping points report foodsecurity.ac.uk/publicatio…. Good to see two new @nature papers on this topic theguardian.com/environment/2…

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At the#GFSpolicylab @l_cornelsen illuminates the economic drivers of food choice pic.twitter.com/tM6AZ8n24A

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The GFS Policy Lab on food choice kicks off today! Post-docs from different disciplines making lifelong contacts, thinking about the whole food system, getting experience of a competitive funding process, and writing for a policy audience. Interdisciplinary working with impact! pic.twitter.com/zrsTfWlCPp

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Hidden Hunger: Our latest blog @heatherohly from @UCLan tells us about hidden hunger in #Pakistan , and how they're tackling it ow.ly/5sQB30iL3XP pic.twitter.com/wgkwDxMJbk

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