World Food Day

‘Healthy people depend on healthy food systems’ is the motto for World Food Day 2013. Around the world today people will be discussing what sustainable food systems look like and what changes we need to make to get there.

Our researchers work on a range of projects directed at making food production more sustainable, from fighting ticks in West African cattle, to developing crops for challenging environments and creating a prawn feed additive that can replace wild-caught fish products in prawn feed.

: Our researchers are working on sustainable cattle projects including fighting ticks in West Africa. Read: Good food for a growing world. Image: SOS Sahel UK.

: We’ve discovered a new resistance gene that protects plants from rust – one of the most devastating diseases for wheat yields worldwide. Read: Keeping the rust out of wheat – go team!

: Our researchers are aiming to fine tune the ‘photosynthetic engine’ of rice. Read: Turbocharing the rice of the future

Click on the images to read the caption and get a link to more information. The World Food Day video below is from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.