Welcome to the STFC Food Network +
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Food Network+ (SFN) brings together STFC researchers and facilities with research and industry in the agri-food sector. The SFN is building an interdisciplinary community working to provide a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high-quality food using less land, with reduced inputs, and in the context of global climate change and declining natural resources. The SFN is highlighting and developing key opportunities for the STFC community to make a meaningful contribution to the food system - from sustainable intensification, through building resilience in supply chains to novel technologies to engage consumers and help change behaviour and improve nutrition.
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The objectives of the SFN are:
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The Future of Agri-Tech - Parliamentary Briefing
We are delighted to be jointly hosting this briefing with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Several of our colleagues will be speaking and MPs and Peers will be able to discuss, in an intimate and informal session, the challenge of developing safe, sustainable food systems and the contribution interdisciplinary research and innovation can make from farm to fork. Find out more on our news page Scientists sniff out rotten avocados SFN Scoping Project PI Marcin Glowacz has been working with Taff Morgan and colleagues to invent a type of portable sniffing device that can detect whether avocados are rotten without breaking the skin and damaging the fruit – ensuring customers do not buy fruit that is already past its best. Find out more in this UKRI blog post New Liaison Positions We have created four new positions to help recognise and facilitate the work of connecting the many interesting agrifood challenges to some of the STFC Facilities, supporting the work of Sarah Rogers as SFN Champion for STFC Facilities, and to increase our engagement with the food manufacturing sector. We are delighted to announce that these positions will be filled by people who have already been heavily engaged in the SFN, Find out more here |
What success means to us:
For us, a successful SFN would have instigated multiple new projects between STFC research and facilities and food research and industry, that would not have happened without the SFN. We would like the seed funding provided by the SFN to enable these projects to become self-sustaining beyond the SFN. We want the SFN to have built cross disciplinary communities who understand the skill sets and challenges facing each other, and which engage to solve agri-food problems.
Find out more:
In our Newcomer's Guide to the STFC Food Network+:
In our Newcomer's Guide to the STFC Food Network+:
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And by watching the video made at our launch meeting:
