Sustainability, media and e-infrastructure
It is obvious (not least from the recent recognition of the effects of anthropogenic climate change) that we shall have to move rather soon to sustainable means of living that do not rely on fossil...
View ArticleFood, agriculture, text mining, Brazil and manufacturing
The report of the Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures (GFFF) Group was released in January 2011, and I attended a One Year On meeting of its ‘High Level Stakeholder Group’ that looked at the...
View ArticleRoots to the future
Much of last week was occupied by my attendance at an eponymous conference in Dundee that we helped sponsor on plant root biology, under the auspices of the International Society for Root Research. I...
View ArticleBiotechnology, food security, pharma and spam
I began the week, as part of our activities on the Sustainable Bioeconomy in Europe, by attending part of the 15th meeting of the European Federation of Biotechnology. I used to attend more regularly...
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Energy and climate change, bees, Audit Board and Nottingham
The first external meeting was with Prof David MacKay, Chief Scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. We enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion focussed on Bioenergy, including theoretical...
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Food for thought
Agriculture and food security in various forms were the main areas of focus during the past week. The agri-food chain (i.e. from farm to fork) contributes about £96Bn to the UK economy and is...
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Development and growth at the Institutes
BBSRC provides strategic funding to eight institutes that have long-term research programmes and national capabilities that underpin important sectors of the UK economy – including agriculture, food...
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Stakeholder engagement, research reproducibility and au revoir Tim Benton
At BBSRC we understand how important our relationships with academics, policy makers, end-users and civil society are. To deliver our vision of leading world-class bioscience, promoting innovation and...
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Food shortages, fungi and the UKRI CE
Food has been hitting the headlines in the past week or so warning us of shortages in various vegetables – particularly courgettes, iceberg lettuce and peppers – with subsequent jumps in the price of...
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Post-‘purdah’ round-up
As you may well know, as a public body we’ve been restricted on our communications in the run-up to the election and so I’ve been unable to keep up my usual run of blogs. We are now clear of so-called...
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