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Sustainable Food

Develop food production systems that are unencumbered by traditional practices, whilst ensuring resilience, yield and quality of crops for food and feed and identifying mitigation strategies to move towards sustainable animal production.

Objectives

Evolving added value opportunities for primary producers through indigenous feed sources including germplasm development and selection and developing sustainable cropping systems resilient to both legislative (e.g. Farm to Fork) and climatic challenges.

Development of technologies to optimise crop processing and product formulation.

Development of climate smart methods for pig and ruminant production.

Determining the risks and benefits of changing farming practices to meet new sustainable ideals.

Enhancing anthocyanin levels in potatoes

Sustainable healthy potato production - gene editing to minimise potato blight

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