Top names to judge University’s innovation competition
21 October 2024
A top-level judging panel, including Henry Dimbleby and Baroness Young of Old Scone, has been announced for the Royal Agricultural University’s innovative Farm491 Challenge Prize competition.
The Challenge Prize, a partnership between the Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU) Farm491 innovation hub which is focused on the future of farming and food systems, and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, launched last month and aims to incentivise companies working on products or services which support nature friendly, multi-functional land use.
Henry Dimbleby made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Agricultural University
15 October 2024
Food campaigner, journalist, and restauranteur Henry Dimbleby has been conferred as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).
Henry, who wrote the independent National Food Strategy in 2021, commissioned by the then Government, was honoured by the University for his pioneering work to transform the UK’s food system and farming in the public in the public interest.
Farmers with their fingers on the pulse help to steer the future of agricultural science
10 October 2024
The impact on farming of Artificial Intelligence, methane, carbon sequestration, regenerative systems, financing, and antimicrobial resistance, are some of the issues that farmers and growers would like researchers to investigate, according to a new report launched today.