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The Farming Futures blog is for farmers, land managers and their advisers to discuss and debate the issue of climate change and sustainability in agriculture.
We’re interested in how you think we can produce more food for a growing population in the context of Government targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, hotter, drier summers, higher energy and input prices, and the increased consumer interest in 'low carbon' food.
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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 non-farming resid...
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, organic farming and soaring fuel prices.
DECC throws a F...
The last year has seen tectonic shifts in the way we will live our lives. The new government has heralded a new dawn of politics and with it slipped in a few words that we have all been challenged to define in the next five years. It is like being gi...
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 rising food prices, solar farms (again), satellite observations and whether we will chang...
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 root cause of it all; pop...
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. With beef producers w...
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 beneath the surface that allows...
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.
Biodiversity is a word we’re getting used to in f...
"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. Whilst modern scientists would consider this a...
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 oldest seed bank,...