How the Food Chain Sustainability Special Interest Group was born...
This site has been developed through close collaboration between the Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network (formerly the Resource Efficiency KTN), the Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, (formerly the Food Processing KTN) and the Institute of Food Research. The idea began with the evolution of the Institute of Food Research’s (IFR) Co-Product Exploitation Cluster which forms part of the Food & Health Network. The Cluster’s aim was to develop innovative methods for extracting marketable components and ingredients from food chain co-products, as a result of its success, this website was created.
The Food Chain Sustainability Special Interest Group has been born and will continue to evolve to provide a Centre of Excellence in sustainable food issues:
- Institute of Food Research - IFR is a not-for-profit company with charitable status. It is sponsored by the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council. IFR is the UK’s only integrated basic science provider focused on food.
- Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network - The Environmental Sustainability KTN draws together organisations and businesses that deal with environmental and resource management and assists them accelerate the development and uptake of innovative sustainable solutions. The KTN focuses upon areas where there is the greatest potential for addressing the interlinked challenges of excessive use and depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity, and climate change. Its efforts are particularly concentrated upon Key Priority Areas where the competitiveness of British businesses and the UK economy as a whole can be enhanced.
- Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network - The Biosciences KTN serves the agriculture, food and industrial biosciences sectors to connect and catalyse knowledge transfer, promote networking and stimulate innovation to help industry profit and grow from new technology-enabled products and processes.
- Food & Health Network (FHN) - a membership organisation open to all food industry related companies, irrespective of size, which provides an interface between the scientists at IFR and the food industry.
- Resource Recovery Forum is an international non-profit network of more than 330 organisations interested in sustainable waste management - making better use of waste that is produced.
YOUR VIEWS:
We add information based upon what we discover and also upon what you send us. If you have anything you would like to contribute to this website, or indeed if you have suggestions on additional areas we might cover, please email your suggestions to: graham.moates@ifr.ac.uk
