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An image showing the damage affecting the thale cress plants from the study, the plant on the left has no stress memory therefore is severely effected by caterpillar feeding.

Stress memory in plants could hold key to growing disease resistant crops

A mechanism behind how plants can develop long-term immunity to stress has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
Dr Robert Caine in a rice field in Vietnam

Genetically modified rice could be key to tackling food shortages caused by climate change

Genetically engineering rice to have better salt tolerance could allow it to be grown in places it would otherwise fail, new research from the University of Sheffield has found.
Women shopping at an outdoor market in India

Major new project to study ways to improve access of poor to nutritious foods in India

A new research project to study ways in which poor communities in India can gain improved access to nutrient-dense foods in climate-friendly ways has been launched.
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Experts say UK Food Strategy ‘fails to deliver’

A letter published today (Tuesday 19 July) in Nature Food says the Government’s Food Strategy falls far short on the measures and urgency required for the transformative change the food system needs.
Picture of a trolley full of food in the middle of a supermarket aisle

UK food shortages: how growing more fruit and veg in cities could reduce the impact of empty supermarket shelves

Dr Jill Edmondson and Professor Jonathan Leake, from the University of Sheffield's School of Biosciences, discuss the current fruit and veg shortages in the UK, and how growing more food in cities across the UK could help prevent a similar situation.

| The Conversation
"Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future - Call for papers, deadline: 27 February 2023." Image:a collage of a fork, tractor, horses, crops and a petri dish with lab grown meat in it.

Call for papers: Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future

The Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future conference will be taking place on 27-28 June 2023.
Professor Duncan Cameron

An announcement from the Institute for Sustainable Food

Professor Duncan Cameron, co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Food, is leaving the University on 1 January to take up a new post as Professor of Environmental Sustainability in the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Manchester.
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New installation questions the place of food in contemporary society

A new collaboration between Professor Peter Jackson, Co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Food, and artist Anthony Bennett will be on display at Festival of the Mind 2022 (15-25 September) in Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery.

Friends preparing salad together at a dining table

Moving beyond food banks

Dr Megan Blake is redefining food support in the UK by addressing the wider effects that food insecurity has on health, wellbeing, and communities.