Archive for October, 2010
Climate extremes to challenge UK agriculture
Sunday, October 31st, 2010As climate change threatens to unevenly affect the water availability in the UK in the coming decades, the agricultural sector will need to adapt to new farming practices and more variable weather conditions. Researchers at the University of Reading released a report last week which details challenges [...]
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Reducing Emissions Whilst Increasing Production
Friday, October 29th, 2010Mr Kendall chaired the afternoon session of the event run by EU farming union organisation COPA-COGECA. As Vice President of COPA, Mr Kendall lead the discussion on how EU food production can be increased significantly to meet growing demand while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and benefiting the [...]
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UK: Farmers take on large-scale project to stop water pollution in agriculture
Monday, October 4th, 2010Farmers are getting involved in one of the largest studies of its kind to establish the best ways of halting water pollution from agriculture.
They will develop an understanding of how pollutants move through river systems and will test up to 80 methods for reducing their impact. These include [...]Leia mais