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A network of 130 Climate Demo Farms will be established in the UK as part of a 7-year EU Horizon project. The project, coordinated by Innovation for Agriculture, in association with ADAS and read more ...
The final report on a Cranfield University study for Defra on 'Evaluating the Productivity, Environmental Sustainability and Wider Impact of Agroecological compared to Conventional Farming Systems read more ...
Defra have announced details of funding for environmental measures in England starting in 2024. These include increased payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Initiative and Countryside read more ...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has announced another round of funding for the large R&D Farming Innovation Programme will open on 15th January 2024. One of the read more ...
Films of the 2023 Agroforestry Show, organised by the Soil Association and the Woodland Trust, are now available to view.
A team of experts across Europe have carried out a horizon scanning exercise to identify issues that are likely to have an impact on UK forests. Catastrophic forest ecosystem collapse received read more ...
Chichester District Council has announced it has received a share of the additional £2million provided by DEFRA for the Trees Outside Woodlands project. Chichester District Council, which has read more ...
A report on the state of nature in the UK has recently been published by a group of organisations involved with nature conservation and evidence collection. The key finding is that there has been read more ...
Scientists have discovered the first ash tree in the UK tolerant to ash dieback (caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus). The discovery of this tree, in Norfolk, opens up the read more ...
A large EU Horizon project on agroforestry, REFOREST (Agroforestry at the forefront of farming sustainability in multifunctional landscapes in Europe) has commenced. The project, which aims to read more ...