FCRN Blogs
The FCRN is all about the conversations and about transmitting knowledge and ideas in ways that people understand and that encourage further exploration and debate. We have created this space to encourage more personal stories with a focus on new ideas, debates and collaborations. The blog-posts are written by people who wish to share something related to new research, reflections from conferences and events or just to highlight thoughts on new ideas and emerging topics of concern. We encourage all of you to contribute. Don't hesitate to get in touch (mariepersson(at)fcrn.org.uk) to pitch a topic.
This post is written by FCRN collaborator Jessica Finch, PhD researcher at the University of Warwick focusing on Food Security (Plant and Crop sciences). Jess began working as an intern for FCRN as part of her PhD training year, and has continued to work with the FCRN part-time. ...
Mapping and dissecting the sustainable diet problem is among the ultimate interdisciplinary scientific tasks of today. I don’t say that lightly. For the last 20 or so years, the evidence that diet is a driver of some of the major challenges facing humanity has grown, not diminished. And the...
This blog comes from FCRN member Karen Luyckz, from Feedback.
Feedback is an environmental organisation that campaigns to end food waste at every level of the food...
We are reposting this article by FCRN’s Tara Garnett with kind permission from Discover society. The article was originally published in...
This blog-post by Dana Kapitulčinová makes a plea for a greater focus on issues around food system sustainability in Central and Eastern European countries and aims to spark further discussions on how best to create meaningful links between researchers and practitioners in Western and...
In this blog-post Lucy Luo, programme director at the organisation JUCCCE (Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy), comments on the 2016 update of the Chinese dietary guidelines. The advice has received quite a lot of media attention and has been described as encouraging a reduction in...
This blog comes from FCRN member Becky Willson. Becky works as a project officer for the Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit (FCCT), a farmer led organisation which aims to...
This is the second post in the blog-series on Insects for Food and Feed by Wendy Lu McGill who is a PhD candidate at the National University of Ireland at Galway’s Plant and...
Por Marie Persson. Gracias a Carlos Gonzalez Fischer por sus sugerencias sobre los temas a tratar (y esta traducción) y a Sarah Najera por su colaboración con el planeamiento y la ejecución del foro. Pueden leer (y difundir) el...