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Virtual workshop run as part of the Northern Real Farming Conference. Hosted by the Organic Research Centre team. One of the key components of a transition to agroecological food and farming systems is the need to move away from input-intensive systems and towards knowledge-intensive systems. Agroecology must cover everything from food production to the protection of healthy socioeconomic relationships. This session aims to bring together interested parties from across the food and farming sector who ...
A new open access paper ‘Management to Promote Flowering Understoreys Benefits Natural Enemy Diversity, Aphid Suppression and Income in an Agroforestry System,’ co-authored by Jo Smith (now ex ORC) with the University of Reading and Lund University in Sweden, has been published in Agronomy. Abstract Agroforestry systems, where productive trees are integrated into agricultural land, can deliver benefits to biodiversity, natural pest control, and pollination, but the effects are highly variable. Recent advances in our ...
Project
This ongoing project will monitor the effect on biodiversity of establishing a silvoarable system with apple trees on previously intensive conventionally farmed land in Cambridgeshire.
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Does tree fodder have a role to play in today’s livestock farming in the UK?
Help us to identify indicators that can capture the provisioning of ecosystem services by farming systems, in particular those with a focus on biodiversity, human nutrition and social well-being.
The Soil Association and The Woodland Trust event in Gloucestershire
Improving productivity for farmers and foresters
OF&G's flagship event will be held in Hampshire
GREATsoils field lab fourth meeting at Helen Browning Organics
Management, Creation and Funding. Soil Association Scotland event
