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• Biodiversity needs agricultural inputs

  Author Name: Jim Orson, NIAB TAG Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE read more Read More... Posted Oct 03 2011, 02:23 PM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, biodiversity, farm, wild flowers, birds [Edit Tags]

• Industry News: New strategy to save and protect England's wildlife

  Author Name: Defra Defra has published a plan to create better habitats and join up the homes of some of England’s most iconic wildlife. ‘Biodiversity 2020: A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services’ aims to halt... Posted Aug 23 2011, 02:15 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, biodiversity, climate change, ecosystem, habitat, wildlife [Edit Tags]

• From a long history to a sustainable future

  Author Name: Chris Stoate A combination of history, modern science and childhood memories, can provide important insight into how we can work towards a more sustainable future. This mixture of information is also a great way of raising the awareness of... Posted Feb 21 2011, 11:57 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, resources, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #16

  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 many challenges of the future, punchy weather and soaring fuel... Posted Feb 15 2011, 10:48 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, biodiversity, solar pv [Edit Tags]

• Let’s shout about our environment and make people accountable for it!

  Author Name: Paul C Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Read More... Posted Jan 26 2011, 11:12 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, resources, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #14

  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 super dairies, sustainable woodland, investment in agriculture and... Posted Jan 14 2011, 09:23 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, biodiversity, solar pv [Edit Tags]

• The threat that dare not speak its name

  Author Name: Claire Wyatt Climate change is everywhere, Peak Oil is rising on the political agenda, the fate of the economy is still uncertain, resource wars are looming and yet still very few people mention the elephant in the room that could be the... Posted Jan 07 2011, 01:18 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, resources, biodiversity, climate change, population [Edit Tags]

• Happy marriage for low carbon and profitable livestock farming

  Author Name: Dr Duncan Pullar Livestock farmers have been a popular scapegoat in the press when it comes to climate change, but new research shows that farmers should now be on the front foot when it comes to discussing a sustainable future for the industry... Posted Dec 09 2010, 12:54 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy, biodiversity, carbon footprint, water footprint, profitability [Edit Tags]

• The microscopic majority – we ignore them at our peril!

  Author Name: Dr Christopher van der Gast Producing sufficient crops while ensuring our farming practices are sustainable is the big challenge for agriculture. But as well as studying and improving crop plants we also have to understand the microbial diversity... Posted Sep 17 2010, 03:42 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, food security, carbon, resources, soil, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• The Secret Ecosystem

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan It’s often said that we know less about the depths of our oceans than the surface of the Moon. In agriculture there’s a pretty important resource that is probably even more unknown. Read More... Posted Sep 14 2010, 06:18 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, soil, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• £1bn? Just this year’s invoice from the bees...

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." So said Einstein. Read More... Posted Sep 02 2010, 05:38 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, resources, biodiversity, bees [Edit Tags]

• Why a Russian seed bank is vital to agriculture

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan 2010 is the Year of Biodiversity . It is therefore particularly ironic that in 2010, it took a worldwide Twitter campaign to spark an inquiry into the closure of the Pavlovsk Research Station in Russia. Read More... Posted Aug 27 2010, 03:42 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, food security, resources, adaptation, seed bank, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• Biodiversity #1: Why a Russian seed bank is crucial to agriculture

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan 2010 is the Year of Biodiversity. It is therefore particularly ironic that in 2010, it took a worldwide Twitter campaign to spark an inquiry into the closure of the Pavlovsk Research Station in Russia. Pavlovsk is the world’s... Posted Aug 27 2010, 03:42 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, food security, resources, seed bank, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• Biodiversity #1: Why a Russian seed bank is vital to agriculture

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan 2010 is the Year of Biodiversity . It is therefore particularly ironic that in 2010, it took a worldwide Twitter campaign to spark an inquiry into the closure of the Pavlovsk Research Station in Russia. Read More... Posted Aug 27 2010, 03:42 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, food security, resources, adaptation, seed bank, biodiversity [Edit Tags]