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Advancing insects as animal feed

Date: 18 April 2016
Author(s): Keiran Whitaker

Insect farms could recover the true value of wasted organic nutrients, improve local food security and assist in environmental protection, says Keiran Olivares Whitaker of Entocycle.

Utilising invasive species for food security

Date: 25 January 2016
Author(s): Mike Mitchell

Employing exotic animals and plants can help the fight against hunger and power economic development. UJAT’s Mike Mitchell reports.

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Is the UK ready for plant-based diets?

Date: 7 January 2021
Author(s): Christopher Waite, Sajeev Mohankumar, Rebecca Martin, Michael Norman

The 2019 Policy Lab winners present their new report which identifies the potential impacts of the emerging trend of plant-based diets on the UK food system. Here the team give a ‘behind the scenes’ to their process of writing a Think Piece, how they successfully engaged with stakeholders, and why now is the opportune time to be discussing plant-based diets.

Building back better: How can we increase the resilience of the UK food system?

Date: 21 December 2020

A new GFS and BBSRC report details the findings from a workshop with stakeholders across the food system, exploring how we could ‘build back better’ and create a more resilient post COVID-19 food network which simultaneously delivers resilience and sustainability.

LAST CHANCE to join our FINAL Q&A session (Friday 9th April, 2-3pm) for the £14M Transforming UK Food Systems Funding Call! Please join if you have any questions relating to your application, the funding call, or the programme! All details on ukrifoodsystems2.meeting-mojo… pic.twitter.com/WR9fT6NLcY

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Deadline extended! PhD and Postdoc researchers from all fields can apply to our Policy Lab until 🎉April 7th 🎉 A brilliant opportunity to bring together different expertise, tackle a food system problem, and devise high-impact policy recommendations: foodsecurity.ac.uk/activity/r…

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Come and tackle this HUGE (923 million tonnes!) problem at our GFS Policy Lab for Early Career Researchers: foodsecurity.ac.uk/activity/r… twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/…

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Advancing insects as animal feed

Utilising invasive species for food security

Is the UK ready for plant-based diets?

Building back better: How can we increase the resilience of the UK food system?

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Advancing insects as animal feed

Utilising invasive species for food security

Is the UK ready for plant-based diets?

Building back better: How can we increase the resilience of the UK food system?

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