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BBC One’s flagship country lifestyle magazine Countryfile will feature the Devon silvopasture research that is planned to last for 12 years and which involves a group of livestock farmers trialling three different silvopasture designs created by the Woodland Trust. The group are an Innovative Farmers field lab with Luke Dale-Harris (FWAG-South West) as the coordinator and ORC’s Lindsay Whistance as the researcher (livestock benefits) and another FWAG-South West person looking at insects. Alongside this, North ...
An article by ORC’s Head of Research Will Simonson has been included in the March/April edition of e-law, published by UKELA (United Kingdom Environmental Law Association) as part of an issue focusing on the Agriculture Act 2020 and farming reform. This article notes the important role that organic farming has to play in transitioning to more sustainable food production and discusses the challenges for the sector arising from post-Brexit policy in the UK, concluding that ...
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Agroforestry ELM Test project blog Use this page to keep up to date on the latest developments of the Agroforestry ELM Test project and send us any thoughts or feedback via the comments form at the bottom of the page About the Agroforestry ELM Test project The Agroforestry ELM Test is a Defra funded project led by Organic Research Centre in association with the Woodland Trust, the Soil Association, and Abacus Agriculture. It will provide ...
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As the dust settles on the huge global phenomenon that was the 12th Oxford Real Farming Conference we highlight on some of the sessions ORC were involved with (directly or indirectly). All sessions were recorded and are being uploaded to ORFC’s YouTube channel and you can catch up at your leisure.
The Oxford Real Farming Conference goes global and online for January 2021! Working with partners around the world, ORFC Global brings together voices from the real food and farming movement across six continents. The programme has been released for a radical, inclusive and inspiring seven days of talks, events and workshops. Sessions with ORC involvement, or projects that ORC are involved with include; Thursday, 7 January Organic No-till with Living Mulches: The Holy Grail for ...
ORC is pleased to be partners in two projects funded by Farming the Future’s Year 2 Grant-pool. A National Network of Agroforestry Farms and Influencing Policy to Support Farm Woodland and Agroforestry from the Ground-up Farming the Future, administered by the A Team Foundation, serves a diverse collective of land-workers, educators, researchers, lobbyists, activists, organisations and funders, who are dedicated to transforming the current industrial food system. Emerging from the agroecological food movement, this alliance ...
Henry Creissen reports on the British Council's Researcher Links Initiative
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This research note reports on studies carried out within an organic silvoarable alley cropping system in the UK, where we have investigated the impact of trees on crops in the adjacent alleys.
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Is the government ignoring the value of ‘public goods’ in organic farming?
Scotland’s agriculture sector can comfortably reduce its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 38% by 2045
