Food Security
External Links
› Food Security and Land Research Alliance
› BBSRC Food Security web site
› Defra Food Security web site
› UK research community unites to help ensure future food security
› Securing food supplies up to 2050: The challenges faced by the UK - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Parliamentary Committee Food Policy
› Securing food supplies up to 2050: Reaping the Benefits: Science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture - Royal Society Policy Publications
› Expanded web feature: High-tech search for mineral-rich wheat grain - BBSRC Business magazine Winter 2010
› Professor John Lucas discusses ongoing crop improvement goals - BBSRC Food Security > Future research challenges
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| 20:20 wheat ® |
| cropping carbon |
| designing seeds |
| sustainable systems |
National Capabilities
Rothamsted Insect Survey
Operates two national networks for monitoring insect populations in the UK. More...
North Wyke Farm Platform
Provides the research community access to a range of in situ state-of-the-art instrumentation in hydrologically isolated fields and farms to better address key issues in sustainable agriculture. More...
PHI-base
A database of interactions between pathogens and their hosts maintained at Rothamsted Research with international input. More...
Long-Term Experiments
These have been running since the mid 19th Century, provide a unique experimental system and archive of soil and plant samples. More...
Rothamsted Research receives
strategic funding from the BBSRC
strategic funding from the BBSRC
