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CUTEC Sustainable Futures Challenge

24 April 2015

Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club aims to bring together students, academics, staff, and alumni to tackle problems relating to the question: “How can we enable sustainable supply and production of food and water in a sustainable fashion?”

Helping to feed the world through advancements in e-Agriculture

8 April 2015

UN Agencies to publish strategy guide for implementing e-Agriculture services

Confronting resource scarcity in Uganda

5 March 2015

New research published in Food Policy examines the complex interactions, dependencies and constraints of physical resources in Uganda, as a case study of Sub-Saharan Africa. The team based in the Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering (Cambridge), uses calorific demand analysis, and source-to-service...

Engineers making perishables a priority

4 March 2015

Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per annum yet 30–50% (or 1.2–2 billion tonnes) of it never reaches a human stomach. In terms of productive land, this represents an area the size of Mexico; in terms of greenhouse gases, the third largest emitter after China and the USA. Dr Tim Fox, Head of Energy...

Era of Peak Food

3 March 2015

In work published in Ecology & Society , scientists have shown that production of a large array of renewable resources, including staple foods such as meat, vegetables and soybeans, has peaked. The peak year of appropriation is also alarmingly synchronous: 16 resources presented a peak rate year centred on 2006 (1989-...

New technologies needed in development of African agriculture

2 March 2015

Researchers take the case example of Ghana to show that a one-size-fits-all approach to African agriculture development will not lead to growth, suggests new research published in Food Policy . The authors of the study say that instead of blindly adopting 'solutions' that worked in other continents, governments and...

Earth Security Index

19 February 2015

The 2015 Earth Security Index has been launched

The Agri-Tech East: Ancient varieties and new technologies key to food security + Wheat prices remain high

29 July 2014

The Agri-Tech East reports on the findings of the The National Association of British & Irish Millers (nabim) suggesting the wheat prices will remain at the historical high this year in spite of the highest level of wheat production for 5 years. Read more.. Ancient varieties and new technologies key to food security...

GFSI Steering Committee news

11 July 2014

Members of the GFSI will be pleased to learn that a Steering Committee has been formed to help co-ordinate activities and plan strategic developments for the future. Howard Griffiths (Plant Sciences) will now help to co-convene the Initiative with Chris Gilligan, and we hope to recruit an administrative co-ordinator...

Global Food Security Initiative at the Philomathia Forum Inaugural Symposium and addition of new Research Theme

11 July 2014

The purpose of this symposium, with the generous sponsorship of the Philomathia Foundation , was to bring together a wide spectrum of researchers in Cambridge to explore ways in which the social sciences and STEM subjects can collaborate effectively to mutual benefit, and in so doing can address the major social policy...

CUTEC Sustainable Futures Challenge

Helping to feed the world through advancements in e-Agriculture

Confronting resource scarcity in Uganda

Engineers making perishables a priority

Era of Peak Food

New technologies needed in development of African agriculture

Earth Security Index

The Agri-Tech East: Ancient varieties and new technologies key to food security + Wheat prices remain high

GFSI Steering Committee news

Global Food Security Initiative at the Philomathia Forum Inaugural Symposium and addition of new Research Theme

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