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The North Wyke Farm Platform is a large-scale research facility - a farm lab - with the clear and distinct aim of making farming a more sustainable endeavour. We spoke to Dr Phil Le Grice about why the work the North Wyke team does is so important.
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Disruption to food supplies will be the most immediate and far-reaching of human crises as a result of climate change and environmental damage. Tackling food loss throughout the supply chain, from farm to fork, will help to maximise food security. In this webinar, three experts share food waste science that's helping to address different parts of the issue.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Professor Leon Terry, Cranfield University: Food loss and waste: a new approach
13:35 Carol Verheecke-Vaessen, Cranfield University: Food safety: a mycotoxin case study
30:15 Toby Peters, Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain, University of Birmingham: Sustainable Cold-Chain in the Developing World
45:16 Q&A
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Highly skilled researchers are vital for the UK to maintain a strong science base and investing in training is a key part of BBSRC’s mission. As part of this mission we support a number of activities to help develop the next generation of research leaders.
Fellowships play an important role in this development by supporting excellent researchers when they need it most; during the transition points of their career.
This includes providing support for those researchers at an early stage in their career who demonstrate excellent potential and wish to undertake their first independent research, those more established researchers who have a proven track record and are looking to establish their first independent research group, and those excellent scientists who are looking to return to research having taken a significant career break for family, caring or health reasons.
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What is a biofilm? Biofilms are a community of microorganisms that literally stick together using a slimy extracellular matrix. They often grow on surfaces - a familiar example is plaque on our teeth. By studying them, the National Biofilm Innovation Centre hopes to find solutions to the problems they cause - from health and hygiene to industrial efficiency - and find ways to deploy them in beneficial ways - like clearing up oil spills.
You can find out more about the National Biofilms Innovation Centre on their website: biofilms.ac.uk
Professor Carol Wagstaff is the Co-Director of the network. Here, she tells us about some of the challenges the network is tackling, such as the increase in pests and diseases with climate change, and food loss and wastage.
The network hopes to make the UK's horticultural industry more resilient and offer consumers better-quality UK-grown food for more of the year.
Everything is monitored at North Wyke. Researchers can keep track of where the water goes and how clean it is, the farm's greenhouse gas emissions, the nutrients in its soil and more. This data is helping us answer questions like:
How can we minimise pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from livestock farming?
What will happen if traditional grazing lands are converted to crop production?
How can we optimise the type of farming we do in different parts of the UK to help us reach Net Zero?
In this video, we take a tour of some of the fascinating research taking place at North Wyke.
Professor Andy Neal at Rothamsted Research is trying to answer that question. Working at Harpenden in Hertfordshire and North Wyke farm in Devon, one of the UK's major regions for farming cows and sheep, his team is running an experiment to see what happens to the soil when traditional grazing land is converted to growing crops. Healthy soil has an incredible ability to take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it away, so understanding how it might respond to future changes is very important as the UK aims for Net Zero emissions.
Professor Lars Østergaard heads up the Genes in the Environment programme at the John Innes Centre. His team is working to understand how the genes of plants interact with their environment and how this affects their vulnerability to climate change. They hope to use this understanding to breed plants that can stand up to change and variability in their environment.
Dr Peter Emmrich and his team at the John Innes Centre are trying to understand how grasspea makes the the toxin. They're using this knowledge to create varieties that are tough against climate change but easier on the human body. They're also researching the socio-economic role of grasspea and how communities use it, so they can ensure the new varieties still have all the features that people value.
Bringing together social science and biology like this is a valuable approach that makes the most of local knowledge and maximises the chances of the project's success.
Vector-borne diseases are diseases spread by insects and ticks. They can affect humans, plants and animals, and include headline-hitting diseases such as malaria, dengue, bluetongue, Zika and Xylella fastidiosa.
Running order
00:00 Introduction: Victoria Gill, BBC
6:35 Prof Gary Foster, University of Liverpool. “Climate change changes the distribution of vectors of plant viruses: Plant viruses kill plants, no plants no food, no food big problem”
18:33 Dr Bethan Purse, UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology. “Climate change and vector-borne disease: Ecology, ecosystems, vulnerability and adaption”
34:13 Dr Rachel Lowe, LSHTM. “Modeling the impacts of climate change on vector-borne disease transmission”
42:50 Dr Raman Velayudhan, World Health Organisation “Global threat of vector-borne disease in a changing environment”
57:23 Dr Tianna Brand , World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) “The latest buzz on vector-borne disease in animals – a global overview from the OIE”
1:13:42 Panel discussion
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Hadewij is a GIS and Data Specialist for Rothamsted Research, working for the Farm Platform National Capability based at the North Wyke campus in Devon. Hadewij’s hope is that research data could help to solve some important environmental issues.
Hadewij’s research focuses on the impact of livestock production on the environment. Data being collected supports scientists all over the world. It includes; surveys on soils, when fields are mown, and animal data, such as breed and date of birth. Additional automated data includes monitoring water, soil moisture, and greenhouse gas sensors. Some of these data categories consist of more than 18,000 measurements a day.
“We are really quite proud of what we have achieved over the last few years. We are especially satisfied that now the data is starting to be used be scientists all over the world. Who knows, we might even get a Nobel prize!” says Hadewij.
Maia Elliot is a Project Manager and works on the UK Research and Innovation’s Global Food Security programme.
Maia explains that she has a tough task as our food system is complex. Her work focuses on getting different stakeholders and groups to work together to tackle the climate crisis and in turn increase our food security.
“One of the projects that I run is a research storytelling competition for early career researchers. I’ve also run a multi-stakeholder dialogue where I worked with a professional storyteller to translate cutting edge research into four short stories!” says Maia.
Andrea Doeschl-Wilson is a Research Group Leader at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
Andrea and her team’s research investigates how the genetics of farm animals affects infectious disease spread. This is essential to help farmers and breeders identify animals that are at higher risk, as reducing the spread of these infectious diseases also helps to reduce emissions from agriculture, a small part to helping to solve the climate crisis.
“I believe that new research combined with new technologies could greatly reduce the number of farm animals that succumb to disease every year” says Angela.
Doctor Alison Carswell is a Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research.
Her research focuses on nitrogen cycling in agricultural systems. This is essential as the global nitrogen cycle has been disrupted by humans through the conversion of stable atmospheric nitrogen into reactive nitrogen.
Alison’s research aims to reduce the amount of reactive nitrogen that is lost into the environment. Although it can be used as a chemical nitrogen fertiliser on our croplands, supporting us to feed our growing population, not all of the reactive nitrogen ends up in the foods we eat, which has a detrimental effect on humans and climate change.
“There is an imbalance in parts of the world, so we have parts of the world that has lots of excess nitrogen, too much of it has been applied to the cropland. Then there are other parts of the world which don’t have enough nitrogen and would really benefit from using more nitrogen fertiliser” says Alison.
Professor Cathie Martin is a Group Leader at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. She's particularly interested in how eating plants can make us healthier, and how plant science can make plants even better for us.
Her research includes developing tomatoes enriched with additional nutrients, studying plants used in traditional Chinese medicine, and breeding African cassava crops for lower levels of toxins.
Research like this is important for preserving global food security and health as the climate changes. It could help more people achieve more plant-based diets, which generally have lower impacts on the planet, and help us grow enough food to meet everyone's nutritional needs.
"At a certain point, I started wanting to make my science relevant so that my mother would understand what I was talking about, and I think that probably has been where I have gone!" says Cathie.
Chair: Professor Angela Karp, Director of Rothamsted Research
Speakers:
Ronald Vargas, Secretary, Global Soils Partnership
Professor Gideon Henderson, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Professor Diana Wall, Colorado State University
Professor Chris Collins, University of Reading
Dr Jonathan Scurlock, National Farmers’ Union
Professor John Crawford, University of Glasgow
Timestamps:
Introduction 00:00:00
Soils and Climate Change: Status and Challenges – Ronald Vargas 00:06:20
UK Policy Aspects – Gideon Henderson 00:20:25
Soil biodiversity science in a rapidly changing climate: successes and challenges – Diana Wall 00:30:15
Q&A 1 – Challenges 00:41:45
Presentation 4 – Chris Collins 00:57:35
Presentation 5 – Jonathan Scurlock 01:09:30
Presentation 6 – John Crawford 01:21:30
Q&A 2 – Solutions 01:33:35
Wrap Up 01:52:41
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It brought together experts to discuss the importance of nutrition and the need to integrate research and innovation across agriculture, food, nutrition and health while considering effects on the environment and inequalities.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 Welcome by Louisa Jenkin, BBSRC
0:01:30 Introduction to the dialogue by the Chair - Professor Guy Poppy, University of Southampton
0:08:46 What is a healthy, nutritious diet for population and planetary health?
Judy Buttriss, British Nutrition Foundation
0:22:47 How can we improve linkages between agriculture and health research to produce an affordable, accessible and nutritious diet for all that is sustainable in a changing environment?
Nafees Meah, International Rice Research Institute
0:34:33 What is the role of research and innovation in improving the nutrition quality of food in a changing environment?
Simon Griffiths, John Innes Centre
0:50:06 Chair: Guy Poppy
Breakout group chairs debate each question using the points and information raised from the breakout group discussions:
Judy Buttriss, Nafees Meah, Simon Griffiths, Barbara Bray, Maggie Gill, Paul Haggarty, Laura Pereira
01:37:53 Closing remarks. What next and how to continue the discussion.
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Ahead of #COP26, we brought together experts from industry and academia to discuss the opportunities and barriers for replacing petrochemicals with biomass in manufacturing, including new technology, societal attitudes and cross-sector collaboration.
Timestamps:
0.00 Welcome from Paul Mines
08.45 Why do we need to use biomass and what would be the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of using biomass for manufacturing? Adrian Higson. NNFCC
22.45 Vision for the use of biomass in manufacturing. Will Cannon, CRODA
41.06 Biomass deconstruction: Gateway to bio-based chemicals. Simon McQueen Mason, University of York
58.25 Biomass for energy carriers. Patricia Thornley, Aston University/Supergen Bioenergy Hub
1.13.45 Biomass for Materials and Chemicals, Alex Conradie, University of Nottingham
1.32.20 Societal views on biomass use in manufacturing, Alison Mohr, University of Nottingham
1.53.40 Panel discussionand Q&A
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This film follows the project from research and initial seed expeditions to commercialisation and miscanthus genome sequencing.
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In this video, we explore the importance of this plant to #plantscientists and the role it plays in protecting the health of #plants we all depend on.
Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as thale cress or rockcress, has a relatively simple genome and quick growth, making it an excellent tool for studying plant genetics and physiology. Despite its small size and lack of practical applications, Arabidopsis has become one of the most powerful tools available to plant scientists in their efforts to develop healthier and more #sustainable #crops.
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Dr Claudio Avignone-Rossa and his team discovered that the community of microbes found in a wastewater treatment plant could hold the key to degrading coffee waste, which is highly damaging to the environment.
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