{"id":89232,"date":"2018-02-21T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=37a14da8a962a27d3b196ebb8ef74ede"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:14:19","slug":"news-story-transforming-food-production-funding-and-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89232","title":{"rendered":"News story: Transforming food production: funding and events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>It is predicted that 60 percent more food will be needed worldwide by 2050 to feed the expanding global population. To meet this demand, government has announced \u00a390 million of new funding to help businesses, reseachers and industry to transform food production.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RenC5Kn40Cg\">Transforming food production &#8211; part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The programme will be led by Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbsrc.ac.uk\/\">Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council<\/a>. It is part of government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation#transforming-food-production:-from-farm-to-fork-\">Learn about this challenge area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"areas-of-investment\">4 areas of investment<\/h2>\n<p>The fund will go towards 4 areas to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>create \u2018Translation Hubs\u2019 that bring together businesses, farmers and academics to collaborate on research projects<\/li>\n<li>support innovation accelerators to explore the potential of new technology and speed up commercialisation<\/li>\n<li>launch a new research programme to identify and build on export opportunities overseas<\/li>\n<li>fund demonstrator projects that show how innovative agri-tech ideas can be applied in real-world settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was announced today in a speech by Business Secretary Greg Clark to the National Farmers\u2019 Union.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/business-secretary-calls-for-new-tech-revolution-in-agriculture\">Read the Business Secretary\u2019s announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"support-for-innovative-agri-food-projects\">Support for innovative agri-food projects<\/h2>\n<p>UK businesses that are interested in finding out more about the fund as well as other opportunities in agri-food can go to a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktn-uk.co.uk\/\">Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)<\/a> industry event.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get advice on how to access funding<\/li>\n<li>attend workshops<\/li>\n<li>hear talks and case studies from previous funding winners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about the KTN events by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ktn-uk.co.uk\/events\">visiting the website<\/a> and searching for agri-food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>To get updates about new opportunities from Innovate UK sign up for <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/info.innovateuk.org\/emailpref\">the newsletter<\/a> or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/email-signup\/new?email_signup%5Bfeed%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fannouncements.atom%3Fannouncement_filter_option%3Dnews-stories%26departments%255B%255D%3Dinnovate-uk\">get alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses can make connections and find out about \u00a390 million investment to improve food and farming, as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}