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Speak Up for Food Security – Five Stories for Change

  • Date: July 2021
  • Author(s): Maia Elliott

The winner for GFS’s 2021 research storytelling competition, Speak UP for Food Security – Five Stories for Change, has been announced. In honour of the UK hosting COP26, this year’s competition aimed to equip UKRI early career researchers with the knowledge and skills to not only inform climate action in the food system, but to inspire it as well.

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The Youth Voice: Agents of Transformational Change in the Food System

  • Date: 29 July 2021
  • Author(s): Emily Yanchuk

To celebrate the 2021 UN International Youth Day, on Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health, GFS presents blog posts from young people involved in transforming the UK food system. 17 year old Emily Yanchuk, vice chair of Bite Back’s youth board, shares how youth are key agents of transformational change in the food system, and the importance of the youth voice.

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Multi-stakeholder dialogue report on GFS future food system scenarios published

  • Date: July 2021
  • Author(s): Maia Elliott

This scenarios sub-report summarises the outputs of an intergenerational, multi-stakeholder dialogue based on the GFS scenarios report The role of the UK food system in meeting global agreements: potential scenarios. This report was selected to feed into the UK Member State Dialogue for the 2021 United Nations Food System Summit.

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GFS report feeds into UK Member State Dialogue for UN Food Systems Summit

  • Date: 26 July 2021
  • Author(s): Adam Staines

Coinciding with the 2021 United Nations Food System Pre-Summit (26-28 July), the Global Food Security programme has published its new multi-stakeholder dialogue report. The report was selected to feed into the official UK Member State Dialogue for the UN Food System Summit.

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World Food Safety Day: Ensuring safe food for a healthy tomorrow

  • Date: 7 June 2021
  • Author(s): Lottie Chapman

Today on Food Safety Day (7th June) we highlight a variety of ongoing work across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and some of our GFS partners which is bringing together insights from across science, business and society to ensure safe, sustainable food for all.

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Transforming the food system, one story at a time

  • Date: 30 November 2020
  • Author(s): Mirjam Hazenbosch, Nina Goodlad

Winners of the GFS 2020 ‘Speak Up for Food Security’ competition, Mirjam Hazenbosch and Nina Goodlad, describe their experiences of converting their PhD research into captivating stories, and the benefits of doing so.

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Winners of Speak Up for Food Security competition 2020

  • Date: March 2020
  • Author(s): Maia Elliott

Mirjam Hazenbosch from the University of Oxford has been named Winner of the 2020 Global Food Security research storytelling competition ‘Speak Up for Food Security’ at Cambridge Science Festival. Nina Goodlad from the University of Dundee won the Public Choice Award.

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2020 Speak Up for Food Security masterclass

  • Date: February 2020
  • Author(s): Adam Staines

Following a competitive selection process last month, 12 UKRI-funded early career researchers working across the UK food system attended the GFS Speak Up for Food Security masterclass in central London on 26-27th February.

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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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Once Upon a Global Food System

  • Date: 20 June 2019
  • Author(s): Maia Elliott

Maia Elliott (Global Food Security) discusses why narrative is a powerful tool for communicating and navigating the complexities of our food system in a time of misinformation, and outlines the rationale behind the Speak Up for Food Security project.

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Winners of Speak Up for Food Security competition 2019 announced

  • Date: March 2019
  • Author(s): Adam Staines

 

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Speaking Up For Food Security: Results of first ever GFS science communication competition

  • Date: 19 March 2019
  • Author(s): Maia Elliott

Following an intensive masterclass in science communication, Claire Kanja and Lauren McGale have been named the winner and runner-up of the Global Food Security programme’s first ever ‘Speak Up for Food Security’ science communication competition.

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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.

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New funding for healthy people and healthy planet

  • Date: 22 April 2022

The Transforming UK Food Systems Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) programme has awarded 11 new research projects with £14 million in funding, focusing on putting healthy people and a healthy environment at its core.

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New £14M funding awarded to 11 exciting research projects as part of the Transforming UK Food Systems SPF Programme, focussing on healthy people and a healthy planet🌎Read more here!👇 foodsecurity.ac.uk/news/new-f…

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Our Science Advisory Group identified some key cross-disciplinary research priorities to build healthy, resilient and sustainable food systems by 2030. Check them out and share your thoughts and priorities: foodsecurity.ac.uk/news/prior…🌍🍴 pic.twitter.com/7aB9wf9v65

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NEW GFS POLICY REPORT: Can true cost accounting remove siloed thinking about #foodloss & #foodwaste? foodsecurity.ac.uk/news/new-p… Authored by UKRI early career researchers @AoifeLCaffrey @beeingmirands @BerndBonfert @_mehr00sh @SiobhanMaderson @Amy_Molotoks @Justinepearce14 thread1/3 pic.twitter.com/wNCGLgC7kk

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🎺Apply Now🎺 Work with academia/gov/industry/3rd sector to transform the food system for health🍎& the environment 🌍 New role- Knowledge Exchange Fellow as part of the @UKRI_News Transforming UK #Foodsystems Programme Deadline 31/03 jobs.reading.ac.uk/displayjob… #SPFfoodsystems twitter.com/mandala_food/s…

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For #FoodWasteActionWeek watch a sneak peak of the NEW GFS REPORT released NEXT WEEK! 👀Written by a team of early career researchers it explores how true cost accounting is a useful tool to reduce #foodloss and #foodwaste 🎉 youtube.com/watch?v=zTndmu…

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