Agriculture Archives - Global Food Security

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.

Harnessing Private Capital for Regenerative Agriculture

Date: 2 October 2020
Author(s): Eleanor O'Kane

A new GFS funded report explores the potential of boosting public funding with private investments to encourage sustainable agriculture, conservation, and the delivery of ecosystem services.

Unintended consequences of cash crop production in Eastern Uganda demonstrate the need for holistic thinking and multi-pronged action

Date: 22 May 2020
Author(s): Denis Muwanguzi

Sugarcane production is a major industry in Uganda, however growing the cash crop often has negative impacts for local farmers. Denis Muwanguzi explains why holistic thinking and multi-pronged action are needed.

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.

Second GFS crop climate working group meeting

Date: June 2019
Author(s): Adam Staines

This month experts came together for the second meeting of the crop breeding and climate modelling working group. The aim of the working group is to identify ways to protect our food supply in the face of a changing climate and extreme weather.

Working group of crop breeders and climate modellers launched

Date: March 2019
Author(s): Adam Staines

As the climate crisis escalates, so will its impacts on crop production. To protect our food supply in the face of a changing climate and extreme weather, GFS has launched a working group to improve communication and information sharing between crop breeders and climate modellers.

Launch of new report on transformative innovation in the food system

Date: 18 January 2019
Author(s): David O'Gorman

A new report published by the multi-agency Global Food Security (GFS) programme describes how disruptive innovation is needed to transform the UK food system.

Transformative innovation across food supply chains to improve decision-making

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Date: January 2019

This report investigates how transformative innovation can lead to ‘business unusual’ in food supply chains, bringing together academia, industry, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), non-government organisations (NGOs) and policy makers. It examines the challenges to industry and business that technologies could address, and has provided future priorities for research, industry, and policy.

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Phosphorus: the Hidden Bedrock of the UK Food System

Date: 30 November 2018
Author(s): Christopher Lyon

There is a growing threat to the UK’s food system, and most of us aren’t even aware of it. Phosphorus is an element that is essential to all living things; it forms a key component of DNA and is important for energy transfers in cells.

Waste not want not: What are the problems of food waste in the supply chain and how can we fix them?

Date: 30 October 2018
Author(s): Ciara Dangerfield

Dr Ciara Dangerfield discusses the outputs of her GFS-funded workshop that explored where food loss and waste occur across the supply chain, and how the scientific community can address these issues to make our food system less wasteful.

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.

Unpack a game, unpack the world? Exploring the future of South African fruit with game design

Date: 24 July 2018
Author(s): Joanne Craven

If the fruit sector were a game, what would it be like? Monopoly – rich get richer, poor get poorer? Snakes and Ladders – it’s all down to luck? Dungeons and Dragons – highly complex and best directed by experts? Or maybe like Twister – needing strength and flexibility?

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

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

Transforming UK Food Systems SPF Programme Joint Fellowship

Date: 7 December 2021

The Transforming UK Food Systems SPF Programme is delighted to welcome new fellow, Dr Bethan Mead, to the programme. Supported by the Food Standards Agency at the University of Liverpool, the post will involve research into understanding consumer and stakeholder perception of urban grown food and alternative proteins, to inform safe adoption and best practice.

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As part of the @UKRI_News Transforming UK Food Systems SPF Programme, @bethanmead has joined the FSA (@foodgov) from the University of Liverpool (@LivUni) as a research fellow. Find out about her research into urban grown food here! 👇 foodsecurity.ac.uk/news/trans…

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