1 Jun 2020
Barking up the right tree
In light of both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of food security is increasingly important. Changes in rainfall and temperature, caused by climate change, will affect crop harvests and this could impact upon the availability and price of food.
22 May 2020
Sowing Wild Seeds
In these current challenging times, those of us lucky enough to have a garden, allotment or even a small amount of space in a window-box might be considering ‘growing our own’ food and wondering what we should plant. With a plethora of mail-order seeds available deciding what to grow can be challenging.
Here we consider the health benefits of eating edible wild plants, highlighted by ongoing SEFARI research.
18 May 2020
NSA and Moredun 'iceberg' disease webinars: The problem of subclinical disease lurking beneath the surface
In this blog, Chris Cousens and Craig Watkins (Moredun Research Institute) explain more about a series of webinars they are delivering with the National Sheep Association (NSA) and SRUC. The focus of these webinars is on “iceberg” diseases, those which often go unnoticed or unreported but have significant effects on sheep flocks.
11 May 2020
Soils and Crofting Resources: Diversity is Key to Life
In this blog, Professor Lorna Dawson outlines why soil is so important and how she has been involved in creating a range of online, free to access, educational resources on soils - focussing in particular on the soils of the crofts.
1 May 2020
How to be a nutritionist when you have no one to feed
During the COVID-19 crisis SEFARI research institutes are not able to conduct human nutrition trials but that doesn’t mean we can’t find other ways to help.
24 Apr 2020
Diet Detectives
In this blog we discuss our new project called Diet Detectives, which is supported by SEFARI Gateway's Responsive Opportunity Fund.
21 Apr 2020
Modelling for Pandemic Preparedness: A Need for a One Health Approach
The UK government stated strategy is to manage the COVID-19 pandemic “led by the science”. However, calls for more transparency about what this really means are getting louder.
17 Apr 2020
Accessible Education Resources – Coming Soon
Online educational activities and resources are needed more than ever at the moment to help with home schooling. In this blog, find out how SEFARI is trying to help by making our educational resources more accessible and discover a few of our activities on food, agriculture and the environment that are either available now or are coming very soon.
17 Feb 2020
Community gardens: Providing shoots of support but not alleviating the root causes of food poverty
Are urban community food growing projects the answer to the problem of food poverty and the seemingly eve