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Cattle, feed efficiency and lower carbon footprint
Posted by:
Maria Gonzalez-Rey, Posted on:
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Agri-tech Sector, Agri-Tech Strategy, Centres for Agricultural Innovation
“The biggest intervention people could make towards reducing their carbon footprints would not be to abandon cars, but to eat significantly less red meat”. These were the words of Professor Benton from the University of Leeds - and until recently …
International partnerships to put food on people’s plates
Posted by:
Duncan Barker, Posted on:
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Categories:
Agri-Tech Catalyst, Agri-tech Sector, Agri-Tech Strategy
If you read our blog post "Everyday Agri-tech", you'll know that research on cocoa is very important for your chocolatey mid-morning snack. A chocolate bar is a good way to see how important agriculture around the world is to us in …
Everyday agri-tech
When I found out that I would be working in the agri-tech team, my first thought was… “What is agri-tech?” I had managed to figure out that it was short for agricultural technology, but that was about as far as …
How do we feed nine billion people by 2050?
This question often attracts polarised views. Tackling a problem of such a magnitude calls for the application of a range of methods, systems, and technologies - selecting the most appropriate for the situation. The adoption of existing knowledge can improve …
98 and counting
I have now updated our Agri-tech Catalyst map to include details and locations for all of the Catalyst projects funded so far, including the most recent Round 4 projects. You can click here to view the map – the projects …
Agri-tech Catalyst Project: Sustainable Scottish Seaweed
Seaweed is often dismissed as the slippery nuisance in the sea that snakes around our ankles. But for centuries it has been used as food, or even daresay a delicacy, from Dulse in a Scottish broth to Nori used in …
Changing the Game
Three months after my first visit to the Milan Expo for the Agri-tech GREAT Week, at the start of October I returned to Milan for another UKTI-led Agri-tech Expo event. This time the focus was on exploiting innovation across sectors: …
Agriculture that is out of this World
...future for growers across the UK. Saturn Bioponics The company was started by Alex in 2010, with the Saturn Grower design going from kitchen table to commercial trials in 5...
Agri-tech at the forefront of Precision Agriculture Revolution
The agriculture sector is undergoing major changes in the way it produces our food in the UK, and across the world. An overused, but important, forecast is that by 2050 60 per cent more food will need to be produced …
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