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The newly-launched Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development (NISD) aims to develop solutions to enable farmers around the world to crops that are resilient to extreme weather, pests and diseases
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Band Aid’s 1984 Christmas no.1 ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’ featured a chorus line of ‘Feed the world’, which was a very worthy sentiment back then but, nearly 40 years later, feeding the world is still one of the greatest challenges facing the human race. So, what is being done about it?
Some of the answers can be found in Norfolk. That’s because feeding the world is one of the core issues that researchers and scientists at Norwich Research Park are tackling. There is a tremendous amount of work being carried out at the Park to find out how to make crops more resistant to disease, improve yields and enhance plant nutrients, to name just three.
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The new Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, launched on Feb 1 will focus on developing solutions to enable farmers all over the world to build resilience to variability in rainfall, periods of drought and more extreme and unpredictable weather events.
Launched with £750,000 of funding from the John Innes Foundation, the new Institute will be based at Norwich Research Park, alongside partners the Earlham Institute (EI), Quadram Institute and The Sainsbury Laboratory and represents a landmark as the first formal partnership of expertise in plant science from the John Innes Centre and the social sciences from UEA’s School of International Development.
A new UK centre of excellence is being set up by partners on the Norwich Research Park to improve global food security which is threatened by the effects.