STFC Food Network+

Welcome to the STFC Food Network +

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.

Objectives

News

The objectives of the SFN are:

To build an inclusive, dynamic, interdisciplinary network of researchers focused on innovative ways to use the skills and facilities funded by STFC.
To kickstart interdisciplinary collaborations and research projects working towards safe, sustainable food systems both in the UK and developing countries.
To enhance the impact of STFC/food interdisciplinary collaborations by encouraging codesign with the nonacademic sector.

Additional £100k Awarded to SFN from STFC
We are delighted to announce that the STFC have awarded our Network an additional £100k to be used to help us fund more Scoping Funding projects from our latest call. Find out more here

Sandpit Winners Announced
Congratulations to the two winning projects awarded at our Sandpit events in February:

Project APROV - Augmented Procurement Visibility - Developing the self organising capability of agricultural procurement systems
Continuous Ammonia Monitoring for AGriculture - CAMAG

You can find out more about the event on our dedicated webpage

SFN Handbook now available for viewing
We have been working hard with our Champions and CoIs to put together our 'Newcomer's Guide to the STFC Food Network+'. We'll be officially launching this later on in the year but you can see our current version on our news page for the time being.

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 by watching the video made at our Launch Meeting Here: