Agritech

An improved gene-editing tool could improve the understanding of the genetic basis of disease resistance in valuable species of farmed fish, researchers have found. Scientists at the Roslin Institute have developed the optimised technique to efficiently introduce changes in fish cell cultures in the lab.

There is huge potential to bring improvements in the wellbeing and supply of livestock through the use of data-related technologies such as IoT and genomic selection techniques. The Food and Agriculture Science Transformer (FAST) programme is just such an example.

The way the world produces food has to change, quickly and fundamentally. One person seeking to make his own small contribution is Simon Fraval - by harnessing multiple, complex datasets to examine the relationship between land, livestock, people and the environment.

Lucy Saddler opens the lid on DairyMine, a research project that uses multiple datasets to support the dairy industry’s recovery from the pandemic.

Malnutrition is often viewed as purely a health issue, but it has far wider implications. By affecting the growth and cognitive function of individuals, it has social, developmental and broader economic impacts.