Engineering sciences - Agronomy/Food Science
Researchers at Oxford University, together with and international colleagues, have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production.
Over 30 million Chinese children, aged between seven and 18, are overweight or obese - placing them at greater risk of an early death and this number is set to rise to 50 million by 2030, caused in part by the role grandparents play in childcare.
Crafty engineering can help solve many problems, including those we face in our own kitchens. At EPFL's Institute of Mechanical Engineering, students from three laboratories tackled some of the most common kitchen challenges as part of the first Kitchen-Inspired Engineering contest.
Sleep can impact an individual's health in many ways. University of Minnesota researchers were interested in how much teens sleep at night is related to their weight, eating habits and physical activity.
Educating parents and grandparents - as well as improving physical activity and the food provided at school - could hold the key to solving China's obesity pandemic, according to one of the largest trials of childhood obesity prevention in the world.
Scientists from Inra and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy) have shown that not all weed communities (spontaneous vegetation) generate crop yield losses, even in unweeded conditions, and that high weed diversity is associated to a reduced risk of important crop yield losses.
Selected Jobs
Assistant / Associate Professor - Breeding for Sustainable Cropping Systems Cornell University
KTP Associate - Flavour and Seasoning Scientist (Fixed term) University of Nottingham
Wissenschaftliche_r Assistent_in (Doktorand_in) (w/m/d (Institut für Zuckerrübenforschung ) (ID 14729) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Diagnostic des enjeux opérationnels de l’accompagnement des dynamiques de partenariat pour l’innovation ouverte Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Rennes
Identification et caractérisation d’expériences et de dispositifs de courtage en connaissances Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Rennes
Ingénieur(e) d’étude Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Poitiers
Links - Agronomy/Food Science
- Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - FiBL
- Swiss Food Research
- Nestlé SA
- Nestlé Research Center
- Syngenta
- Agroscope
- Swiss National Stud Farm SNSTF
- Agroscope Changins
- Agroscope Liebefeld
- Agroscope Posieux
- Agroscope Reckenholz
- Agroscope Tänikon
- Agroscope Wädenswil
- Fera Science
- Rothamsted Research
- Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (ANSES)
- Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement et l’agriculture (IRSTEA)
- School of Viticulture and Oenology - Changins
Job Offers in this Category
- Agronomy/Food Science - 25.11
Assistant / Associate Professor, Horticulture - Agronomy/Food Science - 15.11
Assistant / Associate Professor - Breeding for Sustainable Cropping Systems - Agronomy/Food Science - 12.12
KTP Associate - Flavour and Seasoning Scientist (Fixed term) - Agronomy/Food Science - 10.12
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Soil Carbon - Agronomy/Food Science - 9.12
Teaching Fellow in Nutrition - Agronomy/Food Science - 6.12
Wissenschaftliche_r Assistent_in (Doktorand_in) (w/m/d (Institut für Zuckerrübenforschung ) (ID 14729) - Innovation - 5.12
Diagnostic des enjeux opérationnels de l’accompagnement des dynamiques de partenariat pour l’innovation ouverte - Agronomy/Food Science - 5.12
Identification et caractérisation d’expériences et de dispositifs de courtage en connaissances