Yearly Archives: 2021

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) hosted an all-virtual affiliated session during the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 Pre-Summit, sponsored by N8 AgriFood.

Titled, “Ensuring Healthy Ageing Through Supportive Diets,” the event featured discussions on nutrition, scientific cooperation and introducing more inclusivity of older populations to encourage greater health, mobility and cognition.

As populations worldwide are ageing, there are ways our society can help ensure a healthy,

After 5 years we are proud of the collaborative research culture we have built across the N8, the multitude of research outputs that are contributing to the development of a sustainable, healthy and equitable food system, and our reputation for working closely with stakeholders (governments, industry, civic society) to deliver excellent research and innovation.

 

 

Notable achievements in the last 6 months include launching the N8 AgriFood Food Systems Policy Hub in Nov 2020 (the Hub is actively contributing evidence for coherent food system policies and practice),

The World Health Organisation has joined The University of Liverpool in hosting the official launch of the Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme.

A webinar attended by more than 300 people saw the launch of the GBADs programme, which sets out to solve global challenges surrounding animal disease, caused by a lack of animal health data and an analysis system to provide systematic information on production losses, expenditure and wider economic impacts of animal disease and health problems. 

A major UKRI funding call has seen two projects spearheaded by N8 AgriFood named among those receiving a share of the £24 million funding pot.

The funding, from UKRI’s Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF), was awarded to four interdisciplinary projects that outlined ambitions of transforming the UK food system by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at the centre of their work.

Making up two of the four successful five-year projects are bids led by professors from N8 AgriFood institutions,