Global Food Security
@FoodSecurityUK
Partnership of the UK’s main public funders of research on sustainable, healthy and resilient food systems. Hosted by UKRI-BBSRC. Led by Riaz Bhunnoo @RiazGFS.
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Prof Chris Elliott OBE
Food Security Professor @ Queen's Uni, Belfast & Thammasat Uni Thailand. To Food Integrity and Beyond Tweets own views, hates Brexit.
The Food Foundation
An independent organisation aiming to present solutions to government and the private sector to address the growing challenges facing the UK’s food system.
Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃
Environment/justice/farming/food/bugs Campaigning, research. Wrote 'Rebugging the Planet' & 'Perfectly Safe to Eat?' My own views &RT≠agree also @WildlifeTrusts
Sophien Kamoun
Biologist at The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens and evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer.
John Innes Centre
We are an independent, international centre of excellence in plant science, genetics and microbiology
We have two other UK Research and Innovation Transforming UK Food Systems projects ukfoodsystems.ukri.org looking to make white bread healthier, one through fibre-enhanced white flour, the other through pulses - see Raising the Pulse here: research.reading.ac.uk/raising-the-pu…
I’m delighted to share more info about our UKRI funded evaluation of the HFSS legislation, WP6 of the FIO-FOOD Grant project (DIO Food), supported by Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and using CDRC data assets – read more here about the sales data analysis, RQs and partners cdrc.ac.uk/news/
Check out this taster film below from Mandala – Transforming urban food systems and if you're interested, watch the whole thing here mandala-consortium.org/stories-from-a…
We'll be releasing more films on all of our interventions and evaluations over the next year...
Here it is👀Episode 3 of 'Searching4aReallyGoodLunch'📽️
This episode=interview with #DavidBarrett from Tamar Fresh #Fruit & #Veg wholesaler🍏🥕🍴 Food Systems Equality (Health) partner👌 #Plymouth collaborative #Participatory #film project Fotonow CIC University of Plymouth
👉vimeo.com/889243700
Pulses are an important component of our diet for human and environmental health. Unsurprisingly baked beans are the commonest pulse eaten in UK. #beansintoast #raisingthepulse Hugh Sinclair HNU Food & Nutrition UK Research and Innovation UK Research and Innovation IFNH
📢 Our new report on knowledge policy interfaces for food systems transformation in the UK is now live on the UK Research and Innovation website! 🌱
Learn how civil society actors can leverage their knowledge and influence to shape food systems. 🍽️
ukfoodsystems.ukri.org/2023/12/19/lev…
Centre for Food Policy
Today we are testing our first #fishfinger recipe 💙 for our Food Systems Equality #Plymouth #FishFinger #Innovation experimenting with #dogfish ( #rocksalmon ) UK Research and Innovation #TUKFS #SPFfoodsystem #exciting Sole Of Discretion Plymouth Fishing & Seafood Association
Is your school considering auto-enrolment for free school meals? Or have you already implemented it? We would appreciate your views: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#FSM #autoenolment #schoolfood #catering #schools #FixOurFoodinSchools
95% of our food comes from soil, which is why we're marking #WorldSoilDay Pulse crops are beneficial for soil; it's just one of the reasons why we champion beans.
Great to see this paper and link with thefelixproject - outlining potential ways to improve food aid supply and reduce waste. Findings of interest to the #CoronationFoodProject and others... FareShare The Royal Family WRAP NGO #FoodSystems Global Food Security
Fantastic virtual issue from British Nutrition Foundation! Includes contributions from FIO & DIO Food project collaborators, Michelle Morris Dr Marta Lonnie Professor Alexandra Johnstone Vicki Jenneson Alison Fildes Dr Rebecca Stone Emma Hunter Dr. Hannah Greatwood Mariana Dineva, PhD Modupe Aggreh Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD).
#TUKFS #SPFfoodsystems
Save the date! We are hosting our 2024 City Food Policy Symposium on Thursday 18 April 2024 at our Northampton Square campus. At this event we will look at how to achieve food security for all through local and regional food systems. City, University of London Centre for Food Policy
Looking forward to giving a vision for food at the national academies in Washington Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research University of Southampton Global Food Security
And here's the 2nd part of this interview with #TUKFS Programme Director Guy Poppy CB FMedSci #FoodSystems