Arable Farming
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- 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?
- What are the changes that will affect the quality and availability of agricultural land and how will these affect UK’s food and farming systems?
- 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 can we best supply healthy safe sustainable affordable food that commands consumer confidence and meets the needs of all consumers (including vulnerable groups)?
- What capability and capacity in the food and farming industry is needed to deliver future rural community policy needs?
- 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?