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How will farms in the future provide the food, fuel & fibre we need while delivering environmental benefits under the conditions of increasingly variable environmental change? Our latest case study by Rob Brooker highlights whether such win-wins are possible. You can read the case study here. "We are currently facing three long-term global challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss and the development of sustainable food production systems. Ideal solutions to these challenges would be ones that deliver win-wins, addressing at least two of these simultaneously. Our work on understanding the
The 6th World One Health Congress is the largest One Health event of the year, where experts and researchers from around the world present their latest scientific research. This event has been postponed from June 2020 to October 2020. SEFARI will have a stand presence, so please do come and visit us. More information about the event and how to register can be found here.
Industry, investors, scientists and government officials from all over the world will gather in Edinburgh, Scotland's dynamic and stunning capital city, seeking strategic partnerships and to discover the latest in research and development. More details about the conference and how to register can be found here. The full conference programme can be found here. SEFARI will be a sponsor, host a session and have a presence, so please come and see us. The event was postponed in 2021 and is now scheduled for April 2022.
We are currently facing three major global challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss and the development of sustainable food production systems. Ideal solutions to these challenges would be ones that deliver win-wins, addressing at least two of these simultaneously. Our work on understanding the role of biodiversity in crop production systems considers whether such win-wins are possible. For example, can we introduce biodiversity back into crop systems, making such systems more sustainable with concurrent benefits for farmland biodiversity (which has seen some of the most substantial
I am a social anthropologist, with around 10 years of ethnographic research experience based on fieldwork in Ecuador, Peru and the UK. I am currently researching the social, material, and political processes implied by moves towards energy decentralisation and the promotion of greater local participation in renewable energy production in Scotland. My ethnographic work follows three wind energy projects at different scales where relations between humans, wind and technology are being actively (re)negotiated in a variety of experimental ways. One fieldwork site is an off-grid west coast
SEFARI delivers the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021 (SRP) on agriculture, environment, food and land, providing direct and tangible benefits across diverse issues. The latest highlights report covering the the period September 2019 to February 2020 is now available to view online here. This report is presented to the Operational Group of the Strategic Advisory Board for RESAS Science. The highlights within this report emphasize the breadth and depth of this interdisciplinary programme’s contribution to Scotland’s environment, land, agriculture, food, rural
The highlights within this report emphasize the breadth and depth of this interdisciplinary programme’s contribution to Scotland’s environment, land, agriculture, food, rural communities and economy. Key highlights include wader bird conservation; new findings on tackling soil erosion; enhancing climate change risk assessments for Scottish crop pests and pathogens; the development of a suite of tests capable of detecting the most common infections carried by ticks; new evidence on the health and economic benefits from soft fruits; and new findings for the development and adoption of healthy