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探花直播task of ensuring affordable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for all is one of the major challenges of the 21st century.

探花直播world's their fish finger

12 Mar 2020

Smothered in ketchup or squished into a sandwich, there鈥檚 one tasty convenience food that鈥檚 hard to resist. Now two Cambridge researchers believe...

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Ecosystems Overload

10 Dec 2019

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...

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Cherry and baby plum tomatoes

Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops

16 Sep 2019

Once dismissed as 鈥榡unk DNA鈥 that served no purpose, a family of 鈥榡umping genes鈥 found in tomatoes has the potential to accelerate crop breeding for...

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Vegetables

Removing beef and lamb from menu dramatically reduces food-related carbon emissions at Cambridge 探花直播

10 Sep 2019

A Sustainable Food Policy at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, which includes removing beef and lamb from the menu and promoting plant-based food options...

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探花直播拢2 billion vegetable and the agricultural future of the East

15 Mar 2019

From crop science to robotics, supply chains to economics, Cambridge 探花直播 researchers are working with farmers and industry to sustainably...

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Shopping carts

Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases

18 Dec 2018

Policies aimed at removing sweets and crisps from checkouts could lead to a dramatic reduction in the amount of unhealthy food purchased to eat 鈥榦n-...

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Mark Kotter

鈥淲ith this vial, we could potentially feed the entire planet鈥

08 Nov 2018

Would you eat a burger that had been grown in a lab? It may not be long before this is a choice at your local supermarket. Given the environmental...

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Harvest

鈥楬igh-yield鈥 farming costs the environment less than previously thought 鈥 and could help spare habitats

14 Sep 2018

New findings suggest that more intensive agriculture might be the 鈥渓east bad鈥 option for feeding the world while saving its species 鈥 provided use of...

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Maggots and rotting food waste: a new recipe for sustainable fish and animal feed

31 Jul 2018

In a warehouse to the northeast of Cambridge are shelves upon shelves of trays teeming with maggots, munching their way through a meal of rotting...

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Cambridge and four other universities form agritech partnership

10 Apr 2018

Five leading universities, including the 探花直播 of Cambridge, have formed a partnership to develop and commercialise agritech research, in order...

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Cambridge and Indian partners launch collaboration to transform India鈥檚 "Green Revolution鈥

22 Feb 2018

Researchers met in New Delhi today to formalise the launch of a programme that aims to jointly address some of India鈥檚 most pressing food security...

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Report highlights opportunities and risks associated with synthetic biology and bioengineering

21 Nov 2017

Human genome editing, 3D-printed replacement organs and artificial photosynthesis 鈥 the field of bioengineering offers great promise for tackling the...

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