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• Charlotte's web: social media and farming

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis She grew up on a dairy farm, bought her first cow when she was seven, and her husband's a dairy nutritionist. So when Michele Payn-Knoper was stumped by her Hosltein dairy calf not weaning, she did what any self-respecting... Posted Mar 29 2011, 04:10 PM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, innovation, twitter, social media [Edit Tags]

• Dairy road map heading for success

  Author Name: Karen Wonnacott Dr Karen Wonnacott spoke at the Dairy and the 21st Century Diet: Nutrition and Sustainability conference on the 27th January. We managed to catch her for a few minutes to ask how the dairy road map is progressing and what... Posted Mar 15 2011, 01:46 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Dairy, footprinting [Edit Tags]

• Dairy roadmap heading for success

  Author Name: Karen Wonnacott Dr Karen Wonnacott spoke at the Dairy and the 21st Century Diet: Nutrition and Sustainability conference on the 27th January. We managed to catch her for a few minutes to ask how the dairy road map is progressing and what... Posted Mar 15 2011, 01:46 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Dairy, footprinting [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #12

  Author Name: William Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. This time there is talk of investment in research, counter-productive biofuel plans, the credibility... Posted Nov 26 2010, 01:20 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, woodlands [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #9

  Author Name: Will Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. This time there is talk of the environmental costs of livestock farming, impacts of climate change... Posted Oct 15 2010, 05:48 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, nitrogen, beef, small farms, water footprint [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge#8

  Author Name: Will Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. This time there is talk of carbon footprints, speculative finance, setting the record straight... Posted Oct 01 2010, 05:40 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, crop failure, carbon footprint [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge#6

  Author Name: Will Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. More CO2 = higher yields? Think again. Read More... Posted Sep 05 2010, 08:33 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, wheat, co2 fertilisation, biochar, twitter [Edit Tags]

• Can Britain feed itself?

  Author Name: Sam Henderson During 2007 and 2008 the world experienced a global food crisis. Possibly the first genuinely global food crisis ever. There were riots in over 30 countries. The UN called emergency summits and meetings. India stopped exporting... Posted Aug 16 2010, 01:40 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, nutrient, resources [Edit Tags]

• The era of cheap, abundant energy is over

  Author Name: Will Frazer That was the message from Chris Huhne in DECC’s annual energy statement last week. The statement was about big choices and big trade offs to ensure the future of our energy supply - and agriculture and land use was very... Posted Aug 09 2010, 01:07 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, land use, woodland, bioenergy, energy [Edit Tags]

• Vertical farms and hydroponics for Qatar

  Author Name: Will Frazer Bold plans have been set out by Qatar to achieve national food security in the wake of the food crisis two years ago. Read More... Posted Jul 01 2010, 04:30 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, hydroponics, vertical farming, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]