FOOD INDUSTRY PARTNERS

The Centre for Food Chain Research (CFCR), Imperial College

The CFCR was created in July 2002, in response to what many of the staff within the Department of Agricultural Sciences perceived as a growing need for more effective integration of the natural and social sciences in order to tackle increasingly complex, multifaceted problems within the food chain.

CFCR’s aim is to:

• provide a forum for researchers from numerous disciplines - animal sciences, consumer behaviour, economics, environmental chemistry, genetics, management, marketing, microbiology and plant sciences - to work together on applied research within the food chain
• become the world's leading centre of interdisciplinary research on the food chain - the first port of call for government and industry seeking answers to increasingly complex food chain problems

The Director of the Centre is Dr Andrew Fearne, senior lecturer in food industry management and based in the Applied Economics and Business Management Research Group.

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