Research strategy in a changing world
Head of Global Food Security (GFS) Riaz Bhunnoo outlines the programme’s plans and policies for the future.
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Shocks to the food system: Building a prediction engine for policy
Valeria Shumaylova (University of Cambridge) and Aled Jones (Anglia Ruskin University) describe the rationale behind their recent project exploring data science techniques to study the link between food production shocks, food prices and food riots.
New Policy Lab Report Explores the True Costs of the Food We Waste
A new policy-facing GFS report by Early Career Researchers from across UKRI has been released. This report explores if True Cost Accounting can be a useful tool to help reduce the food we waste and offers policy recommendations to help eliminate food loss and waste.
Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5°C limit unachievable. Global Food Security programme Champion Tim Benton and Bojana Bajželj from WRAP explain.
GFS-FSR event highlights the need for cross-food system collaboration
Cross-stakeholder collaboration is required for food system transformation; a key message from the GFS Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context programme’s recent stakeholder event in Edinburgh.
New food systems policy toolbox published
New reports published mapping policy levers and providing a toolbox to support cross-system conversations, research and action from the Transforming UK Food Systems SPF programme.
Speak Up for Food Security – Five Stories for Change
The winner for GFS’s 2021 research storytelling competition, Speak UP for Food Security – Five Stories for Change, has been announced. In honour of the UK hosting COP26, this year’s competition aimed to equip UKRI early career researchers with the knowledge and skills to not only inform climate action in the food system, but to inspire it as well.
Coordination and collaboration are two key strategic roles for the GFS programme, working across the major UK public sector funders of food security research.
Every day counts for food and farming research
The Asterix fans amongst you will know that the Gauls have only one fear, namely that the sky may fall on their heads tomorrow. As Chief Vitalstatistix says, “but tomorrow never comes”. Whilst the Chief is of course right, we should remember that ‘tomorrow’ is always less than 24 hours away. Wearing a food systems hat, we need to take the threat of the sky falling in tomorrow more seriously.
The programme will produce a variety of activities and outputs as research projects commence
A common voice is needed to make the most of the evidence, says Global Food Security programme Champion Tim Benton.
Projects including research into protecting crops from pests and increasing tolerance to adverse weather conditions will share the funding.