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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'A change-point analysis of food price shocks' - Publication
Following on from the success of Prof Aled Jones' Scoping Project 'Exploring novel techniques to assess food price shocks' Aled has now had this paper published in the 'Climate Risk Management' journal. Find out more on our news page Paper Published for 'FacyNation' One of our Scoping Projects 'FacyNation' led by SFN Champion for STFC Data Science Prof Seb Oliver has had "An empirical, Bayesian approach to modelling the impact of weather on crop yield: maize in the US” accepted to Environmental Research Communications. Find out more on our news page SIM FARM 2030 PhD Project Success Scoping Project SIM Farm 2030 led by Jake Bishop at the University of Reading has been awarded £74,100 from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board for a PhD student project "Sim Farm 2030: An empirical, data-driven, model for wheat cultivars and optimisation for future climate scenarios" Arsenic Detection and Distribution in Rice Plants Using High Resolution X-ray Imaging - Further Scoping Project Success This project led by Dr Manoj Menon has been awarded a £40K sustainable partnership award from the University of Sheffield in order to achieve a variety of objectives. Find out more on our news page |
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:
