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Agriculture, resilient agri-food systems and the environment

Agriculture is vital for human survival globally. It is a relatively small but important industry in the UK.

Farmers' impact on landscape and environment

It not only provides us with food and related products. It has shaped our rural landscapes over thousands of years. The ways in which farmers use the land have profound implications for the:

  • environment
  • animal welfare
  • rural livelihoods
  • trading relationships across the world

It affects the natural ecosystem services we all rely on such as:

  • clean water
  • beautiful landscapes
  • carbon storage

In the UK, Brexit means farmers will have to reconsider many of their management plans. Climate change provides a backdrop which the industry has to keep in mind.

Farmers harvesting wheat from a field during late summer

Our research

CRE research informs policymakers and practitioners so they can plan for the future.

It helps support producers to make agriculture more economically and environmentally efficient. It also helps to make our food production systems more sustainable and resilient.

Projects

Developing SUstainable PERmanent Grassland systems and policies (SUPER-G) - Funding from EU Horizon 2020 (2019-2024) - CRE input: Prof Lynn Frewer (Work Package leader), Prof Mark Reed (Co-Investigator)

 - Funding from BBSRC (2017-2021) - CRE input: Prof Mark Reed (Principal Investigator), Prof Lynn Frewer (Co-Investigator and Work Package co-leader)

 - Funders: ESRC (April 2017-September 2018) - CRE input: Dr Carmen Hubbard PI, Prof David Harvey, Anne Liddon, Charles Scott, Dr Michael Wallace

 (January 2016 鈥� March 2017) - Funding from Friends of the Earth - CRE input: Dr Ruth MacAreavey

 - Funding from   (2016-2018) - CRE input: Prof Mark Reed (Principal Investigator)

 - Funding from EU Horizon 2020 (2015-2020) - CRE input: Prof Mark Reed (Work Package leader)

 - Funding from STFC (2017-2019) - CRE input: Prof Mark Reed (Co-Investigator)

 - Funding from NERC (2017-2022) - CRE input: Prof Mark Reed (Co-Investigator and Impact Evaluation Group Chair)

 - Adapting animal and the feeding techniques to improve efficiency and sustainability of livestock production systems - Funding from EU (2015-2020) CRE input: Guy Garrod, Dr Carmen Hubbard, Marion Raley

 - Sustainability in pig production systems - Funding from ERA-NET (2017-2020) CRE input: Project Leader: Carmen Hubbard

 - Funding from ESRC (Sept 2016-Sept 2017) CRE input: Professor Sally Shortall (PI)

 - Funding from European Union Seventh Framework (2013-2018) CRE input: Prof Lynn Frewer (PI)

 - Funding from British Council 鈥� Institutional Links. (2015-2016) CRE input: Dr Menelaos Gkartzios (Principal Investigator), Guy Garrod (Co-Investigator), Dr Liz Oughton (Co-Investigator), Marian Raley (RA)