Royal recognition for global impact

Academics from Nottingham met Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to receive the highest royal honour for university research.

Appears in issue 56

Tags: global food security, Global Food Security Priority Group, growing population, Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, Professor Jerry Roberts, Professor Katherine Smart, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali, Professor Yang Fujia, Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, School of Bioscience

Good enough to eat?

Producing enough food to feed the world’s growing population is becoming a major concern. But making sure the food we grow is safe, nutritious and good enough to eat is also fraught with difficulty.

Appears in issue 55

Tags: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK, Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB), Dr Asgar Ali, global food security, Global Food Security Priority Group, Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, Malaysia (MOSTI), Technology and Innovation, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), the Ministry of Science