Past Events

What does COP21 and the push for greater environmental sustainability mean for business? The Sustainability Summit will bring together key thinkers, policymakers and business leaders, who will deliver strategies, ideas and solutions to decision makers, helping them to turn challenges into new opportunities and prepare for the future.

Post-2015 Agenda and Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDG): Where are we now? Strategies to improve nutrition quality and combat hidden hunger

Around 40% of all edible fruit and veg intended for human consumption is wasted in the UK because supermarkets reject it for being ugly. But what’s wrong with a crooked carrot or a nobbly parsnip if you’re going to chop it up and cook it?

The Cambridge Food Security Forum is delighted to invite you to join us for a panel discussion about innovative solutions to food waste.

Join archaeobotanist Professor Martin Jones, plant scientist Dr Lydia Smith, and a local artisan baker Alison McTaggart for a lively discussion about our daily bread and to ask the question: what are we eating and how has it changed over time?

Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture 2017, by Professor John Ingram, IFSTAL and University of Oxford

A forum organised by The Royal Society of Medicine to explore and develop the relationships between diet, dietary ingredients and health

Need help writing your 'Pathways to Impact'? Cambridge researchers are invited to an interactive workshop to learn from the experts.

Fruit and vegetable supply chains and processing result in a range of substantial co-products and waste streams, the disposal of which is becoming more costly. Many of these co-products and wastes are rich in phytochemicals, flavours, aromas and fibres which have the potential to be exploited for the production of new food and feed ingredients, and related products. Barriers to exploitation include lack of clarity concerning the quantities and availability of such wastes, valorisation technologies, and downstream market opportunities. Finance and legislation are areas which also raise concerns.

The aim of this meeting is to bring together industrialists with fruit and vegetable waste stream challenges, and academics across a range of disciplines. The objective is to hear from organisations and researchers who have experience in addressing such problems, and to provide an opportunity for solutions to be postulated and proposals for obtaining funding.

This forward looking annual networking event features oral and poster presentations from invited PIs and early career researchers, guest speakers (Colin Parrish, Professor of Virology, Cornell University will be a guest speaker this year, TBD). Themes focus on strengthening interdisciplinary collaborations, and upcoming big challenge topics (including this year, but not limited to/TBD, ecology of infectious disease, theoretical and real world modelling of infectious diseases, neglected diseases, novel interventions for disease prevention and management)