York Poverty Alliance set up in York
Madeleine Power, a Research Fellow working on IKnowFood, is chair of a new York-based initiative, the York Food Poverty Alliance (YFPA). The alliance won £15,000 of funding to look at how to make York a resilient food city where no one goes hungry. YFPA is a partnership between the University of York, the City of […]
Prof Bruce Grieve on BBC Look North talking about the use of robotics to combat plant disease
On the 11 June IKnowFood’s Professor Bruce Grieve, along with an N8 colleague from Sheffield, spoke to BBC Look North, about using robotics to detect plant diseases before they become visible to the human eye. Bruce talked about the creation of hand held technology and the progression to adapting mobile phones to allow us to […]
Prof Bruce Grieve interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today about robotics on farms
IKnowFood’s Professor Bruce Grieve was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme on 11 June. In the first in a series of reports looking at robotics technology on farms, Bruce talks drones, blimps and balloons with interviewer Charlotte Smith.
Article in The Conversation ‘Europeans Deserve a Food Policy that Focuses on the Environment and People’s Health’
IKnowFood’s Professor Bob Doherty has had an article published in The Conversation titled ‘Europeans Deserve a Food Policy that Focuses on the Environment and People’s Health’, written in response to Phil Hogan’s (EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development) announcement this Friday, on common agricultural policy (CAP) reform post 2020. Bob argues that the proposed […]
