📢 The next SCAF online networking session is taking place on Wednesday 20th August at 6pm! Join us to make new connections, find new collaborators, gain new insights, learn more about other sectors and disciplines, or develop new ideas 💡🌱 ➡️ bit.ly/4nP7nJG

Fruit for the Future 2025 starts tomorrow at the James Hutton Institute Join us for an afternoon filled with: 🚶Insightful tours 🫐Field demos 🌿 Meet our breeders 🍓Fresh fruit tasters 🕒3–6PM| The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie #FruitForTheFuture2025

📅 Save the Date! In collaboration with AFERO, the 2025 EASO COMs Summit takes place in Paris 🇫🇷 on 1–2 Dec 2025! Connect with the COMs community to share knowledge, strengthen skills & improve obesity care. 📝 Travel grants available. easo.org/save-the-date-…

Just back from an amazing visit to Swansea University for my first hands-on training with African turquoise killifish 🐟 Huge thanks to Dr James Murray for hosting and mentoring me, and to Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF) for funding this opportunity and supporting my research on nutrition and ageing 🧪✨

🚨 Just two days to #PotatoesInPractice2025! Get an insight into what’s in store by reading our latest news, including highlights from our field plots: 🍃 Tackling late blight 🌱 Potatoes for the future 📅 7th August |📍Balruddery Farm | 🕘 9am More: ow.ly/gvzA50WA1gZ

📢 SCAF Annual Event - just over 4 weeks to go! Join us over two days for engaging discussions, research talks and posters, and networking opportunities.🍴 📍 UofGARC and online ✅View the agenda and register here: bit.ly/4jphGRJ

A new project, funded by UK Research and Innovation, aims to better understand the reasons for dietary and health inequalities in low-income areas of Glasgow. The project will evaluate the impact of new, locally run food markets to help support healthful diets. More ➡️ gla.ac/4mzScTq

Fantastic news out today re our 3y UK Research and Innovation funded project on Community Food Markets in Glasgow gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

📢 Early career professionals are invited to submit their proposals for written feedback ahead of the upcoming pump priming deadline! 🌱 📅 Feedback deadline: 15/08 📅 Award deadline: 29/08 📫 Contact [email protected] to receive feedback ℹ️ bit.ly/3Tqj2R9

📢 SCAF Blog - What Happened this Summer ☀️ Before breaking for summer, we launched our 4th seed funding round, hosted a second successful writing retreat, collaborated with the SBNZ team, and heard from colleagues on the Isle of Eigg 👏 👉 bit.ly/45re6kI

The Reformul8 Challenge Fund is open! Scottish SME food & drink manufacturers can now apply for up to £5,000 to invest in health #reformulation. Apply now➡ bit.ly/4kVk5nz T&Cs➡ bit.ly/4kWyXlx Contact [email protected] to discuss your project

📢 SCAF Webinar! Researchers from two SCAF-funded pump priming projects are joining us next month to present their findings and next steps.🌱 More info and registration 👉 bit.ly/4mbhNSH

Great news! Prof Douglas Morrison Prof. Douglas Morrison and I are thrilled that our novel food ingredient Inulin Propionate Ester - designed to help reduce appetite-has been confirmed safe for general population by EFSA. It’s the result of a 15 year journey. efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal…