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Food Security Ideas Cafe - 14 November
The next Ideas Cafe is on the topic of Food Security and will be held on Monday 14 November, 5.30pm to 7.15pm in University House Cafe.
Feeding the world’s growing population sustainably and fairly is one of the most challenging issues of our time – it’s also intellectually exciting. Warwick has internationally leading expertise in this area with School of Life Sciences (SLS), Sociology and Politics and International Studies (PAIS) driving the theme forward.
Food Security is one of the Global Priorities Programme research themes, identified as part of the University’s research strategy to give clear thematic identity, aligned to external funding priorities, to our multi-disciplinary research strengths which can make a significant contribution to some of society’s most pressing issues.
The session will be introduced and chaired by Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Tim Jones, who was involved in establishing the Warwick Crop Centre as part of the wider Food Security initiative.
Four leading Warwick academics will each present their interest and research strand on the theme of Food Security - these include and from the School of Life Sciences.
The event is free to staff, students and the local community. Advance online registration is required.
The Genetic Resources Unit, part of Warwick Crop Centre, is a vital resource for the collection, maintenance and characterisation of many important vegetable crops and their wild relatives. In this article, Dr Charlotte Allender describes the unit, the importance of the seed collections and how advances in technology will contribute to future food sustainability.
Parsnip breeder benefits from research partnership with Warwick Crop Centre
A recent BBSRC-sponsored knowledge transfer partnership between Warwick Crop Centre and Elsoms Seeds has enabled the breeding company to implement genetic marker technology, which could reduce the time to market for new parsnip varieties by up to 5 years.
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BBC Radio 4 visits Warwick Crop Centre
On Friday 12 August, BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme visited the Warwick Crop Centre to find out about research to increase vegetable yields, and quality, in the face of increasing pressures on climate change and food security.
The programme includes:
- Dr Rosemary Collier investigating sources of resistance to lettuce pests.
- Dr Charlotte Allender discussing the use of carrot diversity sets to look for useful traits such as disease resistance and tolerance to drought.
- Dr Graham Teakle examining nitrogen-use efficiency in oil seed rape.
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