Animal culture
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- How can we optimise the food system to support future food production and consumption sustainably whilst reducing environmental impacts?
- How can we encourage the development and dissemination of innovations in the agri-environment sector? What are the right conditions for success?
- As well as modelling and understanding major land use change (for example from agriculture to forestry), how can we understand the effects of more subtle changes in land management across wide areas (for example changing tillage practice)?
- How do we respond effectively to challenges including a rapidly growing population, changing consumption trends, finite land use, resource constraints, changing climate, globalised markets, and black swan events such as COVID-19 all of which impact on food and farming system security and supply chain resilience?
- How can we use digital innovation and precision farming techniques to measure animal health and welfare outcomes for livestock, and to provide early warning of livestock disease and health threats?
- How can we best supply healthy safe sustainable affordable food that commands consumer confidence and meets the needs of all consumers (including vulnerable groups)?
- Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) has caused disease outbreaks in different animals, resulting in serious economic losses and biosafety concerns.
- High temperature is a major stress that negatively affects welfare, health, and productivity of dairy animals.
- How can we reliably measure and improve the welfare outcomes for livestock on farm, during transport and at slaughter?
- How do we minimize the risk of plant and animal disease import to the UK as traded products change, and as the UK goes through a period of significant change in its international trading arrangements post-EU and post COVID-19?
- How do we future proof farming and food chains to global shocks? What is the potential for wild relatives, landraces, and orphan varieties to increase diversity and enhance resilience?