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Congratulations to the winners of this year's Research Catalyst Grants funded as part of the  ‘Global Food Security: Adaptation, Resilience and Risk’ symposium theme.

The Research Catalyst Grants provide up to £10,000 to support cross-disciplinary research projects at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø as part of the BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities/Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Grand Challenges Symposium Series.

The winning projects were:

Food, water, policy and people: evaluating the impacts of climate change and groundwater limitation on food security in NW Bangladesh, to guide policy for adaptation,
Dr William Burgess, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Earth Sciences

Changing Agricultural Production and Local Knowledge in Marakwet, Kenya: The Implications for Food Security and Natural Resource Management
Prof Heniretta Moore, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute for Global Prosperity

The vulnerability of refrigerated food to unstable power supplies
Dr Rob Liddiard, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø-Energy

Closing the waste-energy-food loop - applying anaerobic digestate to urban agriculture
Dr Aiduan Borrion, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø CEGE