UKRI / BBSRC £16m funding for low emission food production systems

14 Dec 2022

Innovate UK and BBSRC announce new £16 million competition to drive forward novel, resource efficient, low-emission food production systems. This new funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Innovate UK is a joint investment as part of their new strategic partnership announced last month.

They welcome proposals that have the potential to significantly shift the current state of the art in at least 1 or more of the following 6 priority areas:

• novel plant based products or production systems
• acellular food production
• cellular food production
• novel aquaculture systems
• new food production systems
• total controlled environment agriculture systems

£16 million to support novel low-emission food production systems – UKRI