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• Food system revolution...who’s hungry?

  Author Name: Julian Hunt One of the most striking things about Read More... Posted Feb 01 2011, 10:33 AM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, resources [Edit Tags]

• Who are the dynamos and who are the dinosaurs?

  Author Name: Patrick Barker Attending the Oxford Farming Conference for the first time it was my intention to absorb every bit of information thrown at me but it was the very first person that I met who gave the most pertinent piece of advice, “Establish... Posted Jan 21 2011, 09:32 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, resources [Edit Tags]

• Prof Tim Lang on why we should see food security as sustainability

  Author Name: Will Frazer The only way to achieve food security is to have a sustainable food system. That’s the message from Professor Tim Lang of City University’s Centre for Food Policy, who we met at the Inside Government Food Security... Posted Jan 20 2011, 03:09 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, soil [Edit Tags]

• 2011 - a new dawn for agriculture?

  Author Name: Richard Scott Looking at the newspapers, optimism seems to be in short supply at the start of 2011. But amid all the doom and gloom I’m positive for the long-term future of agriculture after some difficult times. Read More... Posted Jan 13 2011, 09:46 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, resources [Edit Tags]

• The challenge facing the next generation

  Author Name: Angharad Evans The issues of food, farming and Read More... Posted Jan 11 2011, 02:50 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, 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]

• An energy crop that cleans toxic soil?

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Read More... Posted Jan 04 2011, 09:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Biomass, food security, carbon, resources, bioenergy [Edit Tags]

• Oxfordshire farmers get together on climate

  Author Name: Alan Spedding Farmers are notoriously busy and time constrained. From feeding the world, GM crops and new technology, to better communications and different scales of production – there is plenty to think about. And for an eclectic... Posted Dec 01 2010, 04:27 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, water, carbon, nutrient, resources, soil [Edit Tags]

• Between and rock and a hard place: the threat of peak phosphorus

  Author Name: Dr Isobel Tomlinson There is one critical issue in securing our future food security that is missing from the global policy agenda: we are facing the end of cheap and readily-available phosphate fertilizer on which intensive agriculture is... Posted Nov 30 2010, 11:43 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, nutrient, resources, soil, phosphate, phosphorous [Edit Tags]

• Between a rock and a hard place: the threat of peak phosphorus

  Author Name: Dr Isobel Tomlinson There is one critical issue in securing our future food security that is missing from the global policy agenda: we are facing the end of cheap and readily-available phosphate fertilizer on which intensive agriculture is... Posted Nov 30 2010, 11:43 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, nutrient, resources, soil, phosphate, phosphorous [Edit Tags]

• Sustainable livestock: the benefits of big

  Author Name: Dr Duncan Pullar Let’s be clear – big livestock units are not bound to be bad. It depends, as with small units, how well designed they are and how well run they are. The vast majority of the UK public enjoys eating livestock products... Posted Oct 22 2010, 05:35 PM by Blog posts Filed under: food security, Livestock, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, carbon, resources [Edit Tags]

• Biotechnology – magic bullet or smoke and mirrors?

  Author Name: Will Frazer A technology that boosts yields whilst using less energy and water, and simultaneously increases soil fertility? Sounds like a magic bullet in our climate changed world, doesn’t it? Some argue that this is what biotechnology... Posted Oct 20 2010, 09:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, nutrient, resources, soil, biotechnology [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]

• £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]

• In at the deep end – horticulture and water

  Author Name: Charles Carr Here in the South East many of our water sources are categorised as ‘over pressurised’ in one way or another, and with a changing climate, a growing population and the food security issue looming large, that pressure... Posted Aug 25 2010, 10:17 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Horticulture, food security, footprinting, water, resources [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]

• Growing up - is vertical farming the future?

  Author Name: Valcent Are high rise farms, vertical farming, and urban farming the solution to feeding our growing population? More and more architects, politicians and urban planners are latching on to the idea that something radical has to be done to... Posted Jul 21 2010, 04:36 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Horticulture, food security, footprinting, water, carbon, nutrient, resources [Edit Tags]