Current News and Events
Sustainable Solutions for Food & Drink Waste Workshop, 7 February 2012, Oxford Brooks University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford.
Organised jointly by NISP & Oxfordshire County Council.
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Food security 2012; taking forward the Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures, Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum Keynote Seminar, 23 May 2012, Central London.
This seminar will bring together policymakers and stakeholders to discuss the key priorities for food security, both internationally and in the UK. One year on from the launch of the Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures - which called for a redesign of the global food system focused around sustainability - planned sessions critically examine whether the report's recommendations are being put into practice. The seminar will examine the key challenges for the food system including rising demand for food, increasing pressure on resources and the effects of global environmental change, and will look at how far technology should be used to increase agricultural productivity, as well as considering the prospects for an agroecological approach to food security.
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Genencor (Danisco) gets award for biofuel enzyme
Report from the Food & Drink Innovation Network
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New WRAP report on food & drink disposed of down the drain
This report presents the findings of a study in which householders recorded the quantities of food and drink that they were disposing of down the drain.
The quantity of food and drink disposed of down household drains each year in the UK is estimated to be 1.8 million tonnes with a value of £2.7 billion annually and associated carbon dioxide emissions of 4.6 million tonnes. Most of this could have been avoided if it had been better stored in the home or with better planning or preparation. More info...
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Official Information Portal On Anaerobic Digestion launched
The UK's National Non-Food Crops Centre has launched England's Official Information Portal on Anaerobic Digestion.
The site is designed to be a gateway for those new to AD in agriculture, industry or local government and provides help and advice on biogas, digestate and feedstocks.
The site also includes information on planning permission and environmental permits and importantly the available incentives and funding for new AD projects.
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ExxonMobil to invest in algae biofuels
ExxonMobil is investing $600m to research and develop next-generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae. Biofuel from algae could be a meaningful part of the solution in the future because of its potential as an economically viable, low emissions transportation fuel.
ExxonMobil is joining with Synthetic Genomics, Inc (SGI) to develop, test, and produce biofuels from photosynthetic algae. Algae produce bio-oil that can be processed into biofuels similar in structure to today’s gasoline and diesel fuels. This helps ensure the fuels are compatible with existing transportation technology and infrastructure.
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East Midlands Airport to trial liquid biomethane powered ground vehicles
Gasrec, the UK's first commercial producer of liquid biomethane, has launched a trial with East Midlands Airport to operate a bus with fuel produced from decomposing organic matter.
Gasrec obtains its landfill gas supply from existing landfill sites or from controlled digestion of the biomass byproducts of food manufacture, retail and other industries. Landfill gas is purified by the Gasrec process to produce liquid biomethane.
The trial follows on from trials with the London Borough of Camden to power refuse collection vehicles and with Sainsbury's to operate dual-fuel delivery lorries.
NEWS ARTICLE: Britain should grow more crops to avoid global food crisis, say MPs
Recent article from the Guardian newspaper on food supply in the UK reporting from the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs committee.
NEWS ARTICLE: New strategy on food packaging announced
Consumers will see a major overhaul of all packaging over the next decade, under plans announced by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.
The Government’s new packaging strategy, Making the most of packaging, looks at the packaging of the future and what our shop shelves and kitchen cupboards should look like if we cut the amount of packaging produced, used and thrown away, and increase the amount recycled.
TOTAL FOOD 2009 - 22-24 April, Conference Facilities, Norwich BioScience Institutes, Colney, Norwich
This three day event took place successfully from 22 to 24 April 2009. The conference proceedings will be published in due course.
Abstracts and presentations are now available online at: www.ifr.ac.uk/totalfood2009
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