The John Innes Centre receives strategic funding from BBSRC
The John Innes Centre receives strategic funding from BBSRC
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Professor John Beddington, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Goverment, addrssing the World Conference of Science Journalists LinksBBSRC institutes highlight food security to world’s science journalistsJune 2009 BBSRC institutes highlighted the growing crisis in global food security – and how science can serve up solutions to prevent it – in a session at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Westminster on Wednesday 1st July. The session was produced by Zoe Dunford, Head of Media for the Norwich Bioscience Institutes, which includes two institutes of BBSRC, the Institute of Food Research (IFR) and the John Innes Centre (JIC), and a new BBSRC national facility, The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC). JIC scientists are at the cutting edge of research to help plants adapt to climate change, to increase yield and to reduce agriculture’s dependence on fertilisers and pesticides. IFR scientists are pushing our understanding of how food can help prevent chronic diseases. TGAC genomic research will underpin the development of new higher yield and increased tolerance crops and further our understanding of the nutritional value of fruit and vegetables. The world population is expected to increase by at least 50% over the next 40 years, but as more people join the middle classes it will require a doubling of grain production to feed.
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