About the Author

Dr Wayne Martindale is a Research Director for MPC Research and an Editor for ‘Science Into’, an on-line magazine for food industry innovations. He is a leading figure in the food and agricultural industry for sustainability issues. Dr. Martindale has been an Organisation for Economic Co–operation and Development (OECD) Cooperative Research Programme Fellow, British Grassland Society Fellow for sustainable agricultural systems, and a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) McMaster fellow for sustainable food processing. Starting his scientific career as a biochemist at the University of Sheffield he then applied research with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Levington Agriculture Ltd where he established the first independent fertiliser industry technical information service for chartered agronomists. He has developed undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the agri-food supply chain at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and Sunderland in the United Kingdom. He is also a research fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility at Sheffield Business School.

See www.waynemartindale.com for his current research and updates.