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 …
In case you missed the Autumn Statement announcement last November, the Chancellor announced that Government is investing £68 million in three new Centres for Agricultural Innovation. As well as creating capacity in the UK to translate agricultural innovation into commercial …
The scale of the problem and challenges In the next 20 years, the global food system will face challenges that are unprecedented in the history of agriculture. However, these next two decades will also offer unprecedented opportunity to those nations …
As the year draws to a close I am really pleased to be able to look back on a very busy and successful year in establishing the Centres for Agricultural Innovation. This progress is not only down to the hard …
...Potential consortia members have been discussing priorities and developing plans ahead of the deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest on 15 October. As Chief Scientist of the Agriculture and...
Over the summer we have taken a number of major steps forward in establishing the Centres for Agricultural Innovation - at the end of July the prospectus was published, which was swiftly followed by the opening of the outline proposal …
...of big data to the agriculture industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB-Z9kcvZSQ And Ian Meikle from the Technology Strategy Board gave more information on the application process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug90XvfO-qI I was also tweeting throughout the...
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