Working to ensure sustainable, resilient & healthy food supplies for all
Systems of food production, trade and consumption are increasingly vulnerable to interconnected political, economic and ecological shocks and stresses associated with climate and environmental changes, shifts in farming practices, uneven power dynamics and consumer lifestyle changes.
N8 AgriFood’s unique collaboration of eight universities, and its multidisciplinary approach covering social and physical sciences, enables us to offer a full systems approach to solving food chain challenges.
Much of the Food Systems work undertaken within N8 AgriFood sits alongside our sister project IKnowFood (IKF). Led by N8 AgriFood chair Professor Bob Doherty, IKnowFood is a four year project with collaborators from across the University of York and the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, funded by the Global Food Security Programme.
The IKF team are also actively training early career researchers in the UK and internationally in food systems approaches to embed systems thinking into the next generation of researchers and food professionals. Read more….
Outputs of the IKnowFood’s Food Systems research include:
N8 AgriFood teamed up with POST to offer a three-month placement to Joe Llanos, a fourth year PhD student at the University of Sheffield. During his placement, Joe produced this POSTnote which explores what a more resilient UK food system would look like.
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N8 AgriFood chair Professor Bob Doherty helped to shape the Co-op Future of Food vision, and was one of the keynote speakers at the launch in September 2018.
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N8 AgriFood researcher Dr Chris West contributed a section on the dynamics and interdependencies of production-to-consumption systems to the 2018 WWF Living Planet Report.
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