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Goodbye to the Future Food Beacon and welcome to the Food Systems Institute
July 5, 2023
In 2017 the University of Nottingham launched its six ‘Beacons of Excellence’, including the Future Food Beacon. This represented a very different approach by the University to research funding, which directed its own money toward areas in which we already had considerable expertise, and that could be expanded to become globally recognised as a world–leading. …
Transforming our food systems
July 3, 2023
In 2017, the University of Nottingham launched the Future Food Beacon to help address the challenge of sustainably and nutritiously feeding a growing world population. After six years laying the research foundation and building partnerships and a research pipeline, the University is launching the University of Nottingham Food Systems Institute to take an interdisciplinary approach …
Is the UK losing its way in transitioning towards a more healthy and sustainable food system?
April 4, 2023
This post is written by Andrew Salter. The Future Food Beacon was launched in 2017 with the aim of ‘working across the food system to explore ways to future proof food security’, with an ambitious strap line of ‘ A world with nutritious food for all’. This was at a time of increasing recognition that at …
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