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The latest updates from the N8 AgriFood Food Systems Policy Hub
Policy Hub POSTNotes set for publication following three-month fellowships
Two POSTNotes produced by the Food Systems Policy Hub’s Policy Fellows covering soil management and genome editing are to be published in the new year following the completion of the second fellowship scheme between N8 AgriFood and the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST).
Six N8 projects feature in new report outlining policy messages for food security
The findings from six research programmes, brought together under N8 AgriFood, have fed into a new report outlining key policy recommendations to help to identify and develop interventions to strengthen UK food security.
Policy Hub experts have their say on what needs to be done to make the National Food Strategy vision a reality.
Food Systems experts from the N8 Universities have contributed to a unique response to the National Food Strategy – advising Government how to implement key policy measures to ensure a healthy and sustainable food system in England.
Uniting UK and South African research to support food systems policy
A new collaboration has been forged between the Food Systems Policy Hub, the British High Commission in Pretoria and the Department of Science and Innovation in South Africa that aims to aid innovation and food security through supporting coherent food systems policy making.
Prof Louise Heathwaite chairs Science Advisory Council
Food Systems Policy Hub Advisory Board member and N8 AgriFood Chair are among latest appointments to Defra's Science Advisory Council.
Policy Hub professor appointed as International Trade Committee special advisor
Professor Fiona Smith, who sits on the Food Systems Policy Hub Working Group, has been appointed to the role of special advisor by the House of Commons International Trade Committee.
Applications Open for POST Policy Fellowship
The N8 AgriFood Food Systems Policy Hub has teamed up with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) to offer two Policy Fellowships for 2021
Genome editing and the future of food
The Food Standards Agency has today published the summary report from the workshop it hosted with the N8 AgriFood Food Systems Policy Hub on genome editing.