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Resilience

£9M funding to optimise UK food supply and tackle global food security

  • Date: 4 August 2016

Projects including research into protecting crops from pests and increasing tolerance to adverse weather conditions will share the funding.

Resilience

Report highlights opportunities for research collaboration with China

  • Date: 11 April 2016

The Global Food Security (GFS) Programme has published a new report, describing how the UK and China could work together to tackle the effects of extreme weather on the food system.

Public engagement

Food Futures Panel publishes project evaluation reports

  • Date: 6 April 2016

The Global Food Security (GFS) programme’s Food Futures Panel has published 10 reports on its activity so far.

Agriculture

Unravelling chloroplast inheritance in wheat

  • Date: 26 January 2016

A new study from the BBSRC strategically-funded institute Rothamsted Research reveals the way that chloroplasts are passed from one generation to another in wheat via only the maternal parent.

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