Integrating Knowledge for Food Systems Resilience: IKnowFood

This four year project led by Professor Bob Doherty (School for Business and Society and YESI) has collaborators from across the University of York and the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester. 

The research programme titled ‘IKnowFood’ is a significant breakthrough. Systems of food production, trade and consumption are increasingly vulnerable to interconnected political, economic and ecological shocks associated with climate, environmental changes, shifts in farming practices and consumer lifestyle changes.

Through integrating knowledge, the aim of the project is to remove the significant disconnects between various actors in the global food system and enhance overall system resilience. Our aim is to produce new datasets, information resources, appropriate technology tools for farmers, decision making tools for business and consumer mobile technologies all working to minimise trade-offs and secure complementarities.

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Departments: School for Business and Society, Computer Sciences, Environment, Health Sciences, Politics, Stockholm Environment Institute at York

The University of Liverpool Institute of Psychology Health & Society

The University of Manchester Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Project Director: Professor Bob Doherty 

Project funders: BBSRC, NERC, ESRC

Project website: Visit the project website.

To get involved or to find out more please contact the IKnowFood team, email: iknowfood@york.ac.uk

The image above shows Amos Chirchir, student of Fairtrade Premium-funded training on demonstration farm, Sireet OEP Tea, Nandi Hills, Kenya. Photograph courtesy of Professor Bob Doherty, IKnowFood Project.