December 2019 - N8 AgriFood

N8 AgriFood to play a key role in Chinese rural revitalisation as MoU progresses

20th December 2019

N8 AgriFood’s second visit to China in 2019 saw the programme’s academics called upon by Chinese policy makers to contribute expertise to the country’s rural revitalisation along with advances towards a second Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with another research institute in China.

Earlier this year N8 AgriFood signed an MoU with the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JAAS) to support the establishment of a Research and Innovation Centre, designed to create a joint platform for supporting knowledge generation and technology transfer across the agri-food sector.

New projects on the horizon after N8 AgriFood teams up with US institutions for sustainable agriculture collaborations

19th December 2019

Researchers from the US and UK have joined forces to develop a roadmap of collaborative projects to address critical uncertainties in agriculture and steer practices towards sustainable solutions by 2030.

N8 AgriFood hosted a delegation of visiting researchers from five midwest US universities after building relations with the institutions over the past two years.

As part of the tour to the UK, which coincided with N8 AgriFood’s Annual Conference in York in October,

Global progress to tackle the climate crisis through peatland action presented at UN Climate Conference

9th December 2019

Delegates to the UN climate conference (COP25) in Madrid last week heard about N8 AgriFood research showing that countries around the world are beginning to conserve, restore and sustainably manage their peatlands.

Peatlands are the world’s largest carbon store, holding more than twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests, but damaged peatlands are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Representatives from countries around the world gathered in Madrid last week to work out how they will make cuts to emissions promised under the Paris Agreement,