21 July 2023
Dr Soujanya Mantravadi is a research associate at the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, currently working on food supply chains and digital interventions for the Mandala project . She has a PhD in Industrial engineering and Information systems. The Manufacturing Academy of Denmark financed her...
Vitamins for vegans? Algae could be the answer!
21 July 2023
Vegan diets are clearly best for planetary health, potentially leading to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones according to recent analysis of the diets of 55,000 people in the UK, but are they as good for human health? The answer is that a conventional vegan diet lacks some...
23 June 2023
A paper co-authored by Jacob Gawel, Prof David Aldridge and Dr David Willer of the Department of Zoology, proposes ways in which sustainable meat from bivalve molluscs (otherwise known as mussels, clams and oysters) could become part of our everyday diets. Bivalve aquaculture has a lower environmental footprint than most...
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