Press Releases
Christmas dinner saved! Sprouts gain natural disease defence
Brussels sprouts will remain safely in our Christmas dinners, thanks to University of Warwick research giving them natural defences against devastating crop diseases.
Warwick and Waitrose tackle global food security together
Food security is at the heart of a new doctoral training collaboration between the University of Warwick and Waitrose, thanks to an award from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
What can we learn from the global history of food?
The Global History of Food, a new undergraduate module in the History department at the University of Warwick is the first of its kind in the UK. The module explores our long history of growing, eating, cooking and selling food, from ancient times to the present, from vegetarianism to the first battery chicken.
Eating chocolate each day could reduce heart disease and type 2 diabetes risk
Including a small amount of chocolate each day could help prevent diabetes and insulin resistance according to research findings from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the University of Warwick.
MPs to quiz University food policy experts on impact of Brexit
University of Warwick academics to be scrutinised by a cross-party panel of politicians.
Selection pressures push plants over adaption cliff – new study has significant implications for how we address rapid climate change
New simulations by researchers at the University of Warwick and UCL’s Institute of Archaeology of plant evolution over the last 3000 years have revealed an unexpected limit to how far useful crops can be pushed to adapt before they suffer population collapse. The result has significant implications for how growers, breeders and scientists help agriculture and horticulture respond to quickening climate change.