£60 million in joint funding has been announced today to bring academics, industry and policymakers across the Irish government, UK government and Northern Ireland Executive closer together than ever before, to work together on food sustainability and tackling climate change.
The investment will see two new research centres – one of which, the Co-Centre for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems, will involve, from the Environmental Change Institute, John Ingram, Food Systems research programme leader, Monika Zurek, Senior Researcher and Roger Sykes, Programme Manager.
The Co-Centres programme will see researchers from across Ireland and the UK work together, to bring the power of science and innovation to bear on work ranging from protecting precious supplies of clean water, to ensuring that we can feed a growing global population at the same time as reaching Net Zero goals.
