UK Research and Innovation: The Future of Food
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is working with the agriculture industry to achieve net zero emissions through food production systems by 2040, and to accelerate the development and adoption of integrated precision farming approaches.
The aim is to improve productivity in agricultural systems, to enable food to be produced in ways that are more efficient, resilient and sustainable, and to drive economic growth across the country. These challenges require unprecedented levels of collaboration and cooperation across the UK Agricultural sector and beyond.
UKRI chose to work with Liminal as a partner to help foster new partnerships through a range major innovation challenges.
The Brief
What we did
Innovate UK commissioned Liminal to help launch two major challenges around transforming food production systems, creating disruptive solutions and high value production systems, and also to strengthen connections between research and practice to enable adoption & demonstration.
We worked with Innovate UK to design and facilitate a highly collaborative process - through a combination of online and offline workshops - bringing together a range of relevant organisations to share capabilities and identify opportunities for collaboration securing combined funding of £80m.
In addition, given that the United Nations forecasts there will be a global protein deficiency of 60 million tonnes per annum by 2050, we worked with a range of partners from across the UK alternative proteins sector to develop a collaborative roadmap over the next 5 years and beyond, looking at technical, commercial, regulatory, and consumer issues
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