Research

Food for health

With the global population predicted to hit nine billion people by 2050, we need to find ways to make better use of the resources we have to grow and produce nutritious, healthy foods.

What are the factors in soil conditions that will impact the nutritional value of crops? How can we make sure humans and livestock have access to high-protein food sources? These are some of the issues our research teams are working to address.

Programmes

Projects

Three people standing in a maize field inspecting the soil

Alleviating mineral micronutrient deficiencies

Our researchers are working to improve population health in Zimbabwe
Combine harvester in yellow wheat field in sun

Creating nutrient-rich flour for better human health

Can biofortified flour improve health outcomes?
 
Magnified close up of blood cell

Mapping iron flow

Could chloroplasts help to alleviate food demands?
Schoolchildren reaching towards the camera

Improving early child development in Malawi

Researchers are creating data platforms to help children's outcomes
 
Burger by Carlos Rabada on Unsplash

Brain-gut imaging of fat intake

What happens when we eat fatty foods?
 

Small-scale projects

Grass pea plants by Peter Emmrich

Grass pea - sequencing the genome

Removing a deadly twist from a key insurance crop for the poorest of the poor
Eggs by Roble de Invierno on Unsplash

Measuring protein digestion and associated brain responses

What happens in the brain-gut axis when humans digest protein?
 
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Meet the team
 

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