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Fish bellies, fava beans & food security

05 Apr 2024

Cambridge Zero and Cambridge Global Food Security gather academics and experts to share solutions for the planet’s looming food production problem.

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A combine harvester in a field

Farm to factories

15 Mar 2024

Cambridge Zero collaborates with Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) and the University of Cambridge...

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Celebrating Women in STEM

11 Feb 2024

To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science , two of our academics speak about their research careers and how they ended up using...

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Meet Cambridge's mussel man

10 Aug 2023

How new ways of shellfish farming could help meet future food needs.

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Woodland

Current conservation policies risk damaging global biodiversity, warn researchers

21 Jun 2023

Rewilding, organic farming and the so-called ‘nature friendly farming’ measures included in some government conservation policies may accelerate...

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Pigs on a farm

New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food and farming choices

22 Mar 2023

Cambridge University scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types of pig...

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Wheat field

Predicting threats to food security

22 Feb 2023

How mathematical modelling can prevent crop devastation and preserve livelihoods.

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Pollinators: first global risk index for species declines and effects on humanity

16 Aug 2021

The Global South may have most to lose from pollinator loss, with Latin America at particular risk due to crop exports and indigenous cultures.

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Growing Underground

29 Mar 2021

In the heart of London there is a farm like no other. It's subterranean, sustainable and energy smart. It also has a digital twin looking out for its...

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Iowa County Drought

Globalised economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse: study

26 Oct 2020

The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...

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Planting ideas: Botanic Garden opens access with living collections portal

02 Oct 2020

A new web portal to Cambridge University Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global...

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The £2 billion vegetable and the agricultural future of the East

15 Mar 2019

From crop science to robotics, supply chains to economics, Cambridge University researchers are working with farmers and industry to sustainably...

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