Below is a selection of recent publications by our Food GRP members

Food and Environment

Collier et al. (2020). The Potential for Decision Support Tools to Improve the Management of Root-Feeding Fly Pests of Vegetables in Western Europe. Insects 2020, 11, 369; doi:10.3390/insects11060369 Insects | Free Full-Text | The Potential for Decision Support Tools to Improve the Management of Root-Feeding Fly Pests of Vegetables in Western Europe (mdpi.com).

Jouet, Agathe, Saunders, Diane G. O., McMullan, Mark, Ward, Ben, Furzer, Oliver, Jupe, Florian, Cevik, Volkan, Hein, Ingo, Thilliez, Gaetan J. A., Holub, E. B., van Oosterhout, Cock, Jones, Jonathan D. G., 2019. Albugo candida race diversity, ploidy and host-associated microbes revealed using DNA sequence capture on diseased plants in the field. New Phytologist, 221 (3), pp. 1529-1543.

Lillywhite, Robert, Wiltshire, J. J. J., Webb, J., Menadue, H., 2020. The response of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare) and forage maize (Zea mays) crops to polyhalite, a multi-nutrient fertilizer. The Journal of Agricultural Science, 158 (4), pp. 269-278.

Wainwright et al. (2020). Phenology of the Diamondback Moth (Plutella xylostella) in the UK and Provision of Decision Support for Brassica Growers. Insects 2020, 11, 118; doi:10.3390/insects11020118 Insects | Free Full-Text | Phenology of the Diamondback Moth (Plutella xylostella) in the UK and Provision of Decision Support for Brassica Growers (mdpi.com).

Assessment of the response of pollinator abundance to environmental pressures using structured expert elicitation. Martine J Barons, Anca M Hanea, Sophia K. Wright, Katherine C R Baldock, Lena Wilfert, David Chandler, Samik Datta, Jessica Fannon, Chris Hartfield, Andrew Lucas, Jeff Ollerton, Simon G. Potts and Norman L Carreck, Journal of Apicultural research (Published online: 02 Oct 2018) preprintLink opens in a new window ArticleLink opens in a new window.

Food Security

'The Do-Gooders and Scroungers': Examining Narratives of Foodbank Use in Online Local Press Coverage in the West Midlands, UK Catherine Price, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Andy Jolly and Martine Barons 2020; Journal of Poverty and Social Justice doi: https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998323834 Published online 18 June 2020.

UK food prices after Brexit, with implications for poverty and health Martine J. Barons and Willy Aspinall BMJ Open 2020;10:e032376. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032376Link opens in a new window arXivLink opens in a new window Quartz Link opens in a new window LSEblog Link opens in a new windowiNewsLink opens in a new window.

Mensah, Daniel, Nunes, Ana R., Bockarie, Tahir, Lillywhite, Robert, Oyebode, Oyinlola, 2020. Meat, fruit and vegetable consumption in sub-Saharan Africa : a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Nutrition Reviews.

Ingram, J., Ajates, R., Arnall, A., Blake, L., Borrelli, R., Collier, R. … White, R. (2020). A future workforce of food-system analysts. Nature Food, 1(1), pp. 9–10. doi:10.1038/s43016-019-0003-3.

Reed, K., Collier, R., White, R., Wells, R., Ingram, J., Borelli, R. … Sykes, R. (2017). Training Future Actors in the Food System: A new collaborative cross-institutional, interdisciplinary training programme for students. Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal, 4(2), pp. 201–218.

Food and Health

How Distorted Food Prices Discourage a Healthy Diet February 2020, Thijs van Rens with Roberto Pancrazi and Marija Vukotic.

Food Cultures

Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2020). Rebecca Earle.

2018. ‘The Aroma-Home Community Garden Project’s Democratic Narratives: Embodied Memory-Stories of Planting and Cooking’. Public Art Dialogue 8.1: 114-130. Susan Haedicke.

2017. ‘Aroma-Home’s Edible Stories: An Urban Community Garden Performs’. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 32.4: 1-6. Susan Haedicke.