Future Foods
What’s happening in this area?
February 2008
Building research skills
The Riddet Centre of Research of Excellence (CoRE) at Massey University has partnerships with the University of Auckland, Massey University, the University of Otago, AgResearch and Crop and Food Research.
New investment
Budget 2007-08 allocated $14 million over four years for research into new food and beverage ingredients and non-food biological technologies. This research will help link technologies to businesses.
Encouraging commercialisation
Food and Beverage Product Development Infrastructure Project
This project will help regional food and beverage innovators to commercialise products by providing pilot-scale processing and production facilities. More information on the Food and Beverage Taskforce on the Ministry of Economic Development website
Food and Beverage Roadmap
The directions signalled in the Future Foods TRST will be incorporated into the Food and Beverage Research Roadmap.
If you wish to be added to the Food Research Roadmap contacts list please contact carol.morris@morst.govt.nz.
Read the Future Food document
The Future Food document published in July 2007 outlines the reasons why this was chosen as a Transformational Research, Science and Technology focus area.
continue to the Future Food document