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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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Funding for Productivity East was provided through a combination of an investment from the UEA and a grant of £4.5m from the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership.
A new PHD programme will investigate plant-based nutrition and health and will draw on the world-leading science-based research expertise at the University of East Anglia (UEA), the John Innes Centre, Quadram Institute and Earlham Institute
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Groundbreaking PhD programme into plants, food and health launched
A new four-year PhD programme has been launched at Norwich Research Park to further advance the science that focuses on plants, food and health. It’s the first such doctoral course on offer in the UK and is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
New, more reliable testing program rolled-out to hospital staff to curb Covid transmission rates
Frontline staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (NNUH) are among the first in the country to benefit from the rollout of more accurate saliva tests in a bid to curb Covid transmission rates.
Combined with the vaccination programme, these rapid tests should help to significantly reduce the ability of the virus to spread in healthcare settings.
In partnership with the Norfolk and Norwich Pathology Lab, the Earlham Institute (EI) and the Eastern Pathology Alliance, the Government-commissioned programme introduces a new, more reliable COVID testing programme for frontline workers.