How African smallholder farmers could harvest more rice with the help of machines - theconversation.com/ghanaians-love… Great to see Selorm work featured as we discuss next steps at WUN ARUA GCRF Food Systems Research Network for Africa workshop w/ University of Pretoria Department of Environment and Geography GlobalFood@Leeds University of Ghana

Are you registered for our webinar next Wed?

'Dietary Patterns in UK Consumer Purchase Data' will be led by Prof Michelle Morris on 17th April, 12.00-12.40pm.

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Join us on Wed 17 April, 12pm.

Michelle Morris will discuss how supermarket sales & loyalty card data is used to understand:
- dietary patterns
- comparisons with national recommendations
- sociodemographic characteristics
- what we can do to change them

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A 20m presentation highlighting some my concerns as to the potential missed legislative opportunities to prevent food waste across the UK supply chain 1/4 youtu.be/ajjZ-16aqRI?si…

Forgetting inexcusably to thank (hopefully better late than never) GlobalFood@Leeds for inviting me to do the presentation, my wonderful colleague Dr Effie Papargyropoulou for chairing, and Sustain for turning my drawing of the supply chain regulation into a useable the diagram.

Last week, scientists in the School of Biology joined GlobalFood@Leeds and partners from across Africa to share ideas on global food security. Missed it?

Read more on our website:
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This #FoodWasteActionWeek , it has been really interesting to read and hear about the range of research on food surplus and waste happening across University of Leeds. Check out GlobalFood@Leeds for more on this.

Our new blog focuses on sustainable surplus food redistribution (SFR) in the UK. The blog explores the findings of the FAMISHED project & the recommendation that robust policy agenda is needed to sustain the future of SFR in the UK.

#FoodWasteActionWeek

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Dr Jyoti Mishra shares insights from their research on circular food systems this #FoodWasteActionWeek

Watch full 4 minute video: youtu.be/EtZkFLD_Y4U

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Tomorrow...

Prof. Stephen Whitfield's Food System's Research Week brought together leading global researchers from diverse disciplines to build evidence-based understanding of the implications of food systems in the context of varied social and environmental challenges.
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For me, this week has been University of Leeds life at its best. I've loved seeing and discussing interdisciplinary food systems research, education, facilities and partnerships with cross-faculty and international colleagues. It's what GlobalFood@Leeds is all about.

Prof Stephen Whitfield: “The Food Systems Research Week is part of our ongoing efforts within GFEI to build interdisciplinary partnerships for global challenge-led research.”

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What a week so far!

The focus of today's International Food Systems Research Week session is research.

The event will feature 8 short presentations/lightning talks from food systems researchers ahead of a research funding scanning workshop tomorrow.