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Read more at: Food Climate Research Network announces new Advisory Board membreship

Food Climate Research Network announces new Advisory Board membreship

14 February 2014

The Food Climate Research Network, based at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, has announced their new Advisory Board membership today: Dr Mark Barthel, Waste & Resources Action Programme WRAP Professor Tim Benton, University of Leeds & Global Food Security programme Phil Bloomer...


Read more at: Cambridge Plant Sciences Ecology Group asks: Can plants get more carbon for less water?

Cambridge Plant Sciences Ecology Group asks: Can plants get more carbon for less water?

12 February 2014

The Ecology Group blog reflects on the visit from Prof Graham Farquhar from the Australian National University who was in the UK to receive a Rank Prize Fund award for his contributions to food security by helping to guide the breeding of wheat varieties that use water more efficiently. Prof Farquhar gave a talk entitled...


Read more at: HLPE Consultation: Food Losses And Waste In The Context Of Sustainable Food Systems - Input welcome

HLPE Consultation: Food Losses And Waste In The Context Of Sustainable Food Systems - Input welcome

11 February 2014

In November 2012, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to conduct a study on Food Losses and Waste in the Context of Sustainable Food Systems . Final findings of the study will feed into CFS 41 Plenary session on policy convergence (...


Read more at: OpenPlant - Cambridge Synthetic Biology Centre

OpenPlant - Cambridge Synthetic Biology Centre

7 February 2014

OpenPlant Synthetic Biology Research Centre is a £12M collaboration between scientists at University of Cambridge and John Innes Centre in Norwich. The OpenPlant initiative aims to promote i nterdisciplinary exchange between the foundational technologies and more applied plant sciences; o pen technologies for innovation...


Read more at: Secrets of potato blight could help farmers fight back

Secrets of potato blight could help farmers fight back

5 February 2014

Researchers at Oxford University and The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, looked in unprecedented detail at how Phytophthora infestans , a pathogen that continues to blight potatoes and tomatoes today, evolved to target other plants. 'For the first time, we have found a direct molecular mechanism underpinning the change in...


Read more at: Building farmers’ resilience through sustainable cash flows

Building farmers’ resilience through sustainable cash flows

5 February 2014

In the first of a series of Perspectives on Resilience , Jai Shroff, Chief Executive Officer of UPL Group (United Phosphorus Limited), reflects on why building resilience for smallholder farmers is key to poverty reduction, and how strengthening markets and building sustainable cash flows can help farmers become more...


Read more at: A global snapshot of 125 countries indicating the best and worst places to eat.

A global snapshot of 125 countries indicating the best and worst places to eat.

5 February 2014

High food prices impose a massive human cost on the world’s poorest, who spend up to 75 percent of their income on food. Good enough to eat A global snapshot of 125 countries indicating the best and worst places to eat. Around the world, one in eight people go to bed hungry every night despite there being enough food for...


Read more at: UK Plant Science : Current status & future challenges - Report of the UK Plant Sciences Federation

UK Plant Science : Current status & future challenges - Report of the UK Plant Sciences Federation

30 January 2014

UK Plant Science: Current status and future challenges report The UK Plant Sciences Federation has released the results of the first ever analysis of activities across the UK's plant science sector. The report, UK Plant Science: Current status and future challenges reveals that the UK's position as a world leader in plant...


Read more at: Sustainable fishing

Sustainable fishing

10 January 2014

Reducing the effects of fish farms (podcast) Planet Earth Podcast: Kenny Black and Jo Gosling of the Scottish Association for Marine Science describe the work they're doing to make fish farming sustainable Horizon2020 Sustainable Food Security Programme offers a number of funding calls within their Blue Growth Agenda aimed...


Read more at: David Baulcombe to receive the first McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies

David Baulcombe to receive the first McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies

2 January 2014

Athens, Ga. – Professor Sir David C. Baulcombe is the first recipient of the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies awarded by the Maize Genetics Executive Committee. Read more: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/2013-12-19