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Group photo of attendees at the Jeevika didi haat launch

Healthy food market launch marks major milestone for rural Indian community

On Tuesday 5 August, the first pilot healthy food market was launched in India as part of the INFUSION project. Co-designed and run by local women, the Jeevika Didi Haat (market) will provide jobs, and nutritious, affordable food for the community.
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New research aims to unlock stressful plant memories

New research led by Prof Jurriaan Ton aims to uncover how plants adapt and survive in challenging environments with the ultimate goal to create more resilient crops.
Facilitators gathering at Kufunda Village
Facilitators gathering at Kufunda Village

Make it Grow Community Facilitators share learnings at regional gatherings in Zimbabwe

In April, graduates of the Make it Grow (MiG) ‘Training of Trainers’ programme came together for three regional gatherings to reconnect, reflect on their own facilitation experiences and challenges, and share updates on the community food projects.
Dr Jess Dunn watering wheat crops in a lab

Inside the grain: Sheffield researcher awarded fellowship to investigate plant reproduction processes

Institute for Sustainable Food Research Fellow, Dr Jess Dunn, has been awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) fellowship to explore plant reproductive physiology in major cereal crops.
Women in supermarket looking at packaging

Helping alternative proteins go mainstream for a sustainable planet

The University of Sheffield will co-lead a new £38 million centre to develop planet-friendly alternatives to animal proteins that could soon be a sustainable and nutritious part of our diets.
four women holding co centre logo

New collaborative research centre to transform food system

Co-Centre run jointly by University of Sheffield, Queen’s University Belfast and University College Dublin in first-of-a-kind collaboration across Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
A large group photo of the attendees of the event co-hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Food and United Against Malnutrition and Hunger.

Event shining a light on British research dedicated to tackling global and local food inequality

The Institute for Sustainable Food is pioneering British efforts to fight global malnutrition. Food insecurity is one of the greatest challenges of our time, so it is vital innovation and excellence is shared and celebrated.
An example of a hydroponics growing system to grow crops like lettuce, it shows rows of plants being grown on shelves.

Growing leafy greens set to get greener due to Sheffield research into sustainable farming

A new way to create synthetic fertilisers from waste by-products, which could provide a cost-effective, low-carbon alternative to current synthetic fertilisers for the UK's farming industry, is being developed by the University of Sheffield.
(Left-right): Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Lord Jonathan Caine; Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD; Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin TD; Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan; Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris; and Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Steve Baker, pictured at Farmleigh, Dublin, this afterno

New research programme to transform food systems led by Sheffield awarded £5.8 million

A transformative, new research programme that aims to transform food systems across the UK and Ireland, and led by the University of Sheffield, was announced yesterday (Tuesday 28 November).