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Microalgae as a sustainable source of protein and food ingredients
Microalgae can be an alternative sustainable source of protein and functional food ingredients that have the potential to improve gut and liver health.
Urban living laboratories: Opportunities for modelling sustainability transitions
Here, a group of academics present Urban Living Laboratories to study sustainable food production systems, using systems dynamic modelling to analyse policy alternatives.
Bamboo circulation in Satoyama and Satoumi: Japan’s hilly and coastal areas
Professor Saijo Kiyoshi at the Miyagi University of Education explains the work behind the bamboo circulation project of 2020, focusing on bamboo growth and utilization in Satoyama and Satoumi.
The Fish-X project: Supporting EU small-scale fisheries going digital
The implementation of innovative data management and data collection tools will help support the sustainable development of EU fisheries; learn how the Fish-X project will support this digital transition of small-scale fisheries.
Optimising subsurface drip irrigation for effective drought defence
Professor Pete W. Jacoby from Washington State University describes how the innovative use of drip irrigation can enhance vineyard resilience to drought.
Supporting Europe’s transition to climate-neutral farming
We hear from ClieNFarms, an Innovation Action project funded by the European Commission to support the European Green Deal and achieve climate-neutral farming across Europe’s agricultural industry by 2050.
The effect of soil degradation on human, animal and plant health
Dr. Christine Sprunger, soil scientist and ecologist at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) and the Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University, discusses the danger of soil degradation on human and animal life, and what we can do to mitigate it.
Renewfood manufacturing: Food production for a nourished, resilient nation
Dr Kang Lan Tee, Matthew Hutchinson, Joe Price and Professor Tuck Seng Wong from the University of Sheffield explain the importance of re-imagining food production to support people and the planet.
Genetic mechanisms of pigment accumulation in carrot colours
We hear from Philipp Simon, from the USDA, Agricultural Research Service & University of Wisconsin, Madison, about how a kaleidoscope of colors reveals new genetic mechanisms of pigment accumulation in carrot colors.
Organic soil amendments: Enhancing vegetable production & soil health in Puerto Rico
Ermita Hernandez Heredia, Associate Professor from the University of Puerto Rico, details enhancing vegetable production and soil health in Puerto Rico in this organic soil amendments particular focus.
Animal ethics in relation to desensitisation and extreme compartmentalisation
Dr Rebekah Humphreys, a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter, discusses animal ethics and the morality of our treatment of animals in testing and intensive farming.
Zero food waste city 2049: Identifying barriers to transition pathways
An Urban Living Lab in the UK have tested newly integrated systems approaches and valuation methods to understand how to reduce the city’s food waste.
In the footsteps of Carl von Linné: Sustainable food production
Refarm Linné strives to increase sustainable food production throughout the country, through local, sustainable, and circular production, both in the city and the countryside.
Exploring the partnership between the agriculture and social welfare sectors
The intrinsic value of the partnership between agriculture and social welfare sectors can help us to enrich the way that we work, and how we think about work.
Weathering the storm: Exploring flooding in agriculture
Christine Sprunger, the Assistant Professor of Soil Health at Michigan State University, aims to understand how the flooding in agriculture has increased with climate change and how farmers can better adapt.
Sustainable plant & crop production systems in Europe
Professor Laura Grenville-Briggs shares her stance on working together to counter the threat of oomycete diseases, focussing on trans-sectoral approaches to support sustainable plant...
Trans-sectorial approaches sustainable disease control across agribusiness districts
Professor Laura Grenville-Briggs shares her stance on working together to counter the threat of oomycete diseases, focussing on trans-sectoral approaches to support sustainable plant and fish production systems in Europe.
Assessing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in urban, rural, and minority-owned agriculture in the...
As the global community aims to feed the 8 billion people on the planet, assessing PFAS substances in urban and rural agriculture becomes an important component of the mission.
Seaweed farming: Biomass production from algae
Algae are a high-potential yet underexplored source of renewable biomass, could seaweed farming be the future for biomass production?
Global food security – Part 4; Enhancing a struggling food system
Professor Curtis R Youngs, the M.E. Ensminger Endowed Chair of International Animal Agriculture at Iowa State University, analyses the flaws of the food system in his fourth part analysis of global food security.