Further grant to help research into food and energy production

Researchers from the Business and Engineering Schools have built upon their recent Newton Fund RCUK CONFAP award with a further grant from the Knowledge Exchange Development Fund.

Brian Garvey from the Department of Human Resource Management and Paul Tuohy of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering were awarded £4680 for the project, 'Transcending the food vs energy polemic: socially committed technologies for 21st century energy reproduction'.

This project will bring together engineering and social scientists from Strathclyde and Brazil (State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo) alongside rural workers and dwellers from Scotland and Brazil.

Following sustained research in the interior of Sao Paulo state, Brazil and the Findhorn community of Scotland by the respective applicants, this participative start-up project will scope and plan a socially committed and integrated approach to food and biomass energy production that, in the longer term, seeks to address and resolve both social and ecological challenges to medium scale food and energy production in two locales.