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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Stress to success: the behaviour of resilient vegetables under climate change

Date: 9 November 2021
Author(s): Olivia Cousins

2021 is a year of converging events; the UK is hosting the COP26 climate change conference, the UN COP15 conference focusing on biodiversity has just passed, and the international year of fruit and vegetables is in full swing. To celebrate these events, Dr Olivia Cousins shares the importance of maintaining and using the biological diversity of vegetable crops so that they can endure the stresses of our changing climate.

New report from the Temperate Agriculture Network looks at future trading scenarios and their impacts on agriculture

Date: 26 July 2022

A new scenarios report from the International Sustainable Temperate Agriculture Network (TempAg) explores how economic, social, environmental and political drivers may impact future trade, and how these in turn might shape agricultural economies, and their research agendas, globally.

NEW REPORT: How will future trading relationships affect agricultural research? A new scenarios report from the Temperate Agriculture Network explores future trading scenarios and their possible impact on agricultural research priorities. foodsecurity.ac.uk/news/new-r… 🧵1/2 pic.twitter.com/gntKWVckp6

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Fantastic opportunity for ambitious researchers looking to transform the #Foodsystem working in the GFS funded @healthyfood_h3 project at @UniversityLeeds Work as a research officer/fellow aiming to improve fibre consumption among low Socio-economic status groups #SPFfoodsystems twitter.com/GlobalFoodLeed…

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New policy brief from the GFS Food System Resilience Programme looking at ways to support community-scale food providers to improve the resilience of the UK #FoodSystems twitter.com/FSR_ProgrammeU…

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Do we adjust our diets to top up necessary nutrients? PI funded in call 2 of the Transforming Food Systems SPF explores nutritional intelligence in new BBC article: bbc.co.uk/food/articles/…

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New funding call from @ESRC focussing on food systems research to encourage and enable take up of healthier diets. More:orlo.uk/nffWr A great opportunity to build on the work GFS has supported through the Transforming Food Systems SPF programme: foodsecurity.ac.uk/research/f…

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