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Theme: Waste Reduction and Recycling in the Food Chain

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FO0203: Material flows in livestock product utilisation
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2007 To 2007, Cost £50,000
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Meat and Livestock Commission
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Carcass Evaluation, Agricultural Waste, Agriculture and Food Chain, Environmental Protection, Livestock, Uniformity, Waste Management
 
 
FO0209: Mapping waste in the food industry
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2008 To 2008, Cost £7,150
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Oakdene Hollins Ltd
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Biowaste, Environmental Performance, Food and Drink, Food Chain, Food manufacturing industry, Waste, Waste Management
 
 
FO0210: Evidence on the role of supplier-retailer trading relationships & practices on waste generation in the food chain
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2008 To 2009, Cost £80,000
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   University - Cranfield
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Food and Drink, Food Chain, Food manufacturing industry, Waste, Waste Management
 
 
FO0212: Future trends on resource efficiency and waste generation in the food chain.
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2009 To 2009, Cost £99,995
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Brook Lyndhurst
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Agricultural Waste, Agriculture and Food Chain, Food and Drink, Food Chain, Food Industry Sustainability Strategy, Food manufacturing industry, Food Waste, Resource efficient and resilient food chain, Sustainable Farming and Food Science
 
 
FO0215: Government Partnership Award for BBSRC project (BB/G020418/1) Claviceps purpurea (Ergot)
Description - Objective - Time Scale & Cost
From 2009 To 2013, Cost £137,038
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   BBSRC Central Office
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Resource efficient and resilient food chain, Sustainable Farming and Food Science
 
 
FO0216: Mapping waste in the food industry (2)
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2010 To 2010, Cost £8,300
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Oakdene Hollins Ltd
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
 
 
FO0217: Reducing post harvest losses and wastage in UK potato storage due to sprouting.
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2010 To 2012, Cost £299,418
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Sutton Bridge Experimental Unit, University - Cranfield
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Food Chain, Food Waste, Potatoes, Resource efficient and resilient food chain, Storage, Sustainable Farming and Food Science, Waste
 
 
FO0218: Recycling of catering and food waste (QSSAFFE)
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2011 To 2012, Cost £80,000
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   The Food & Environment Research Agency
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Food Waste, Pigs, Recycling, Resource efficient and resilient food chain, Sustainable Farming and Food Science
 
 
FO0427: Future implications of trends in healthy eating on existing food production and manufacture
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2011 To 2012, Cost £215,364
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   ADAS UK Ltd., University - Cranfield
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
 
 
FT1538: Exploitation of non-destructive scanning laser Vibrometry for assessment of firmness and damage in fruit and vegetables (AFM 235)
Description - Objective - Time Scale
From 2006 To 2010
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Mack Multiples Division, Marks and Spencer plc, Unilever Research, Lambda Photometrics Ltd, University - Reading, University - Cranfield
Field of Study:   Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain
Keywords:  
Environmental Performance, Food and Drink, Food Chain, Food manufacturing industry, Food Quality, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Waste
 
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