Agriculture Must Change
Our colleagues at Rothamsted are to be applauded for the way in which they have brought the GM debate to the fore this week. At one level the case being made for an experiment to gather evidence on a...
View ArticleDelays in food research investment make meeting demand that much harder
Peter Gregory is Professor of Global Food Security and contributes to building research programmes in the University’s Centre for Food Security. One of his research focuses is in global environmental...
View ArticleCombating plant disease outbreaks by preventing pathogen evolution may help...
One component of food security is to try and improve crop yields to produce more food, more consistently, by reducing the impact of disease. Diseases are caused by a variety of pathogens and one of our...
View ArticleAccess to land, food security and the intergenerational transmission of...
Ruth Evans is leading an international collaborative research project on access to land, food security and the intergenerational transmission of poverty in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana with Dr....
View ArticleUniversity of Reading PhD student plays a key role in the organisation of...
Katherine Livingstone, a PhD student (supervised by Professors Ian Givens and Julie Lovegrove) studying the effect of lipids in dairy foods on risk of cardiovascular disease was earlier this year...
View ArticleCombining the old with the new is the recipe for global food security
On world food day Professor Richard Tiffin from the University’s Centre for Food Security discusses the challenges faced when meeting the global demand for food. The present debate around how best to...
View ArticleAre minimum alcohol prices a simplistic response to cheap booze culture?
Introducing a minimum price for alcohol is back in the news today, with claims that the government is planning to back-track on its commitment to introduce a minimum price of 45p per unit of alcohol....
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