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̽»¨Ö±²¥task of ensuring affordable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for all is one of the major challenges of the 21st century.

 ̽»¨Ö±²¥Foreseer tool is based on Sankey diagrams, where the width of each line is proportional to the quantity of resource

Foreseer of future resources

20 Jul 2011

An online tool will help users predict trade-offs between the global commodities of energy, water and land.

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Irish tenants are evicted and their homes torn down under the supervision of troops

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

19 Jul 2011

A new book by a Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. ̽»¨Ö±²¥Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...

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Responsible farming

Nature’s value to business

12 Jul 2011

A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to...

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Live imaging of the growing tips of plants

Predictive modelling of plant growth for food and fuel

04 Jul 2011

Fundamental research on plant development at the Sainsbury Laboratory will help in the future design of optimal crops.

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Cow

New strain of MRSA discovered

03 Jun 2011

Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in both humans and dairy cows.

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Stooks

Scientists aim to improve photosynthesis to increase food and fuel production

11 Apr 2011

New collaboration aims to address the growing demand for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.

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Prize Pig

Towards a ‘super-vaccine’ for swine bacterial diseases

01 Mar 2010

A new multidisciplinary research programme aims to develop a single vaccine that will combat four major respiratory pathogens of pigs.

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Household takes refuge from the rain in central Malawi

Famine’s changing face

01 Jan 2010

Dr Zoltán Tiba’s research on why famines happen is posing questions about the root causes and possible long-term interventions.

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Rice

Supercharged rice: the answer to famine?

26 May 2009

An ambitious project that aims to increase rice yields could provide the solution to future food shortages.

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