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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SFN at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Thanks to highly collaborative work with a wide variety of colleagues we are delighted to announce that we will be taking a new exhibit ‘Take a bite out of climate change’ to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition on the 1st - 7th July 2019. Find out more on our news page. New Blog Post - Caught in the act – detecting adulterated food products with Raman scattering Visit out blog page to find out how SFN Scoping Project collaborators are working with the STFC Central Laser Facility to investigate possibilities for through-container detection. Using drones to save coffee plants from disease Oliver Windram has been leading this SFN scoping project looking into how drone technology and, specifically, multispectral imaging could help protect coffee plants from coffee rust, a fungal disease that can wipe out entire plantations, and testing it out in the coffee growing areas of Thailand. Find out more in this post from the STFC media team |
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:
