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Agronomy / Food Science - Health - 11.02.2025
Calls to reform food VAT to encourage healthy and sustainable diets
Calls to reform food VAT to encourage healthy and sustainable diets
People would be encouraged to eat more healthy and sustainable diets if Value Added Tax (VAT) rates were set based on health and environmental considerations, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Agronomy / Food Science - 05.02.2025
Canteen on the Concourse arrives at 20 Bedford Way
Canteen on the Concourse arrives at 20 Bedford Way

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 28.01.2025
Five reasons why vertical farming is still the future, despite all the recent business failures
Five reasons why vertical farming is still the future, despite all the recent business failures

Agronomy / Food Science - Life Sciences - 19.12.2024
Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms
Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms
A new tool that predicts the behaviour of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia.

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 18.12.2024
RVC awarded international grant to further research into equitable and sustainable livestock and food systems

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 03.12.2024
Beans and peas are the best meat alternative
Beans and peas rank as the best meat and milk replacement from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives, finds a new study by researchers at UCL and the University of Oxford.

History / Archeology - Agronomy / Food Science - 03.12.2024
The turkey take-over - how the turkey stole Christmas

Health - Agronomy / Food Science - 29.11.2024
Imperial conference: Tackling the harms of Ultra-Processed Foods

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 28.11.2024
Wolfson Foundation strengthens Durham research with Crop Centre opening

Agronomy / Food Science - Innovation - 20.11.2024
Light-altering spray for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit growing season in the UK
Light-altering spray for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit growing season in the UK
New spray developed by scientists at Bath could help boost UK farming and increase the UK's food security.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 19.11.2024
Bees can help map pollution
Bees can help map pollution

Agronomy / Food Science - 18.11.2024
New street food outlet pop-up on the Quad!
New street food outlet pop-up on the Quad!

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 13.11.2024
UKRI funding for University of Glasgow led research to help achieve the UK’s net zero target

Pedagogy - Agronomy / Food Science - 13.11.2024
Opinion: Why England's new curriculum should involve as much hands-on learning as possible
Opinion: Why England’s new curriculum should involve as much hands-on learning as possible

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 11.10.2024
Scientists challenge ’misleading’ Dublin Declaration defending meat consumption

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 09.10.2024
Madagascar’s mining rush has caused no more deforestation than farming
If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife. Mining has a very bad reputation. It is often assumed to be one of the worse land uses - destroying and polluting the environment and creating barren, moon-like landscapes.

Agronomy / Food Science - Health - 04.10.2024
Toddlers get nearly half their calories from ultra-processed foods
Toddlers get nearly half their calories from ultra-processed foods
Toddlers in the UK obtain nearly half (47%) of their calories from ultra-processed foods (UPFs), and this rises to 59% by the age of seven, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

Life Sciences - Agronomy / Food Science - 28.08.2024
Imperial co-launches UK centre for tasty, affordable meat alternatives

Agronomy / Food Science - Innovation - 23.07.2024
Celebrating 75 years of the Crop Centre’s pioneering agriculture research

Agronomy / Food Science - Health - 23.07.2024
RVC joins new transdisciplinary network to address antimicrobial resistance

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 27.06.2024
A Global Epicentre: An Exploration of London's Student Life
A Global Epicentre: An Exploration of London’s Student Life

Life Sciences - Agronomy / Food Science - 24.06.2024
Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein launches at Imperial with $30m funding

Agronomy / Food Science - Life Sciences - 19.06.2024
£1.2M grant to tackle resistance to sheep scab treatments

Agronomy / Food Science - 01.03.2024
Behind the scenes with Haley Yiu
We interviewed the cast and crew of Another Life to offer a sneak peek into the characters, the writing process and more.

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 20.02.2024
Potassium in soil is running low, threatening global food security - study proposes way out
Potassium in soil is running low, threatening global food security - study proposes way out
Comment: Potassium in soil is running low, threatening global food security - study proposes way out Low potassium levels in soils around the world could pose a threat to global food production, writ

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 19.02.2024
Can chickpeas and lentils grow in the UK? Scientists calling for schools to help find out
School children are being invited to help scientists find out if chickpeas, lentils, and other types of legumes could be grown in the UK. Scientists at the University of Southampton say that growing legumes in the UK could help to boost food security as our climate warms. Climate change is already impacting food staples like wheat and maize in the UK and other countries.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 08.02.2024
Trees can make farms more sustainable - here’s how to help farmers plant more

Agronomy / Food Science - Innovation - 17.01.2024
Imperial startup raises £5.3m to unlock secrets of soil microbes
Imperial startup raises £5.3m to unlock secrets of soil microbes

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 21.12.2023
Warwick Agri-Tech ploughs the future of farming and forestry with robotics
The University of Warwick announces Warwick Agri-Tech to help the future of farming with automation - addressing issues such as labour shortages, food insecurity and loss of biodiversity.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 27.11.2023
The big business of sustainable food production and consumption: Exploring the transition to alternative proteins
The big business of sustainable food production and consumption: Exploring the transition to alternative proteins
Josephine Mylan and John Andrews have written an article which has been published by the prestigious article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on sustainable food production and consumption.

Agronomy / Food Science - Computer Science - 17.11.2023
AI-powered soil analysis software wins Imperial's undergraduate competition
AI-powered soil analysis software wins Imperial’s undergraduate competition

Agronomy / Food Science - Computer Science - 15.11.2023
AI-powered soil analysis software has won Imperial's undergraduate competition
AI-powered soil analysis software has won Imperial’s undergraduate competition

Agronomy / Food Science - 03.11.2023
Chicken broth & lobster among 3,000 dishes served to King George III
Chicken broth & lobster among 3,000 dishes served to King George III
A list of 3,000 unique dishes served to King George III at Kew Palace and the Prince Regent, George IV at Carlton House between 1788-1813 has been compiled by a team involving a UCL researcher. Published in  Food & History by a team based at UCL, University of Birmingham, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Essex, the result is an in-depth database of food eaten by the two kings, which includes the unique dishes, as well as 40,000 served dishes.

Agronomy / Food Science - 30.10.2023
Food fit for a king? Chicken broth & Lobster top the menu of 3,000 dishes served to King George III
Food fit for a king? Chicken broth & Lobster top the menu of 3,000 dishes served to King George III
George III dined on chicken broth, lobster and roasted capon among many other favourite Royal dishes served to the King and his household, a new study reveals.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 19.10.2023
£2.45 million gift launches novel research to sustainably increase crop yields
Researchers are testing soil microbial communities to protect ecosystems thanks to a £2.45 million donation from the Michael Uren Foundation.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 05.10.2023
Honorary Professorship for sustainable pest management expert

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 04.10.2023
Analysis: Cocoa prices are surging - west African countries should negotiate a better deal

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 28.09.2023
Opinion: One in six UK species threatened with extinction - here's what we could lose
Opinion: One in six UK species threatened with extinction - here’s what we could lose
To halt and reverse biodiversity loss in the UK, efforts to conserve and restore species and habitats must ramp up, writes Professor Richard Gregory (UCL Biosciences) in The Conversation. The UK is considered one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. This is not surprising given its history of early industrialisation and agricultural intensification.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 18.08.2023
Commemorating the life and career of Professor Sir Gordon Conway
Commemorating the life and career of Professor Sir Gordon Conway

Agronomy / Food Science - Health - 16.08.2023
A multinational £6M project to develop a novel parasite vaccine for sheep

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 31.07.2023
On Resilience: policy solutions for a more resilient UK
The United Kingdom is vulnerable to global events and over reliant on other countries for essential resources - but there are policy choices which could significantly lessen this exposure, a new report makes clear.

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 25.07.2023
Significant changes needed across Welsh food system and land use to achieve net zero - report
Significant changes needed across Welsh food system and land use to achieve net zero - report
Urgent and open debate is needed around Wales' food system in order to achieve net zero, academics at Cardiff University conclude. The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) has published its response to the Wales Net Zero 2035 Challenge Group 's first challenge question ' How could Wales feed itself by 2035? ' The report examines the evidence and explores challenges facing the agricultural sector, which is set to be the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in 2035, as other sectors decarbonise more quickly.

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 16.06.2023
The first British Baked Beans could be on the breakfast menu thanks to University of Warwick research
A pioneering project is set produce haricot beans, better known as classic-baked bean, in the UK for the first time.

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 31.05.2023
No bees without beekeepers! How volunteers are increasing food security, as swarms proliferate across the UK
Experts from the University of Warwick say without the tireless work of beekeepers across the UK, honeybees would struggle to survive.

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 07.04.2023
University of Bath to lead £12M project on revolutionising food production
University of Bath to lead £12M project on revolutionising food production

History / Archeology - Agronomy / Food Science - 04.04.2023
Analysis: A brief history of school meals in the UK - from free milk to Turkey Twizzlers

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 09.03.2023
Increase homegrown fruit and veg and add £0.5bn to the economy say scientists – as we reel from supermarket shortages

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 09.02.2023
Analysis: Global supply chains are devouring what’s left of Earth’s unspoilt forests

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 31.01.2023
Cambridge-led consortium receives $35m to boost crop production sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa
Cambridge-led consortium receives $35m to boost crop production sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa

Agronomy / Food Science - 12.01.2023
Opinion: South Korea to ban bear farming, but what about hundreds of captive animals that remain
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