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Mark leads studies in molecular physiology in potato at the James Hutton Institute. His main research has been on understanding the molecular basis of quality and development trains in potato tubers. For SEFARI, Mark is Work Package Coordinator for Crop and grassland production and disease control alongside Alison Lees. His work for SEFARI focuses on genetic diversity and improvement of crops.
Derek is the Business Sector Lead: AgriFood at the James Hutton Institute and is responsible for developing the research opportunities on agriculture, food and drink supply and value chains, production systems, biomass, waste valorisation and the (bio)circular economy.
Background The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have released a stark warning of the consequences of uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions in a recent Special Report. We now recognise that to avoid dangerous climate change, it will be necessary to limit global temperature rises to no more than 1.5 oC above preindustrial levels. To achieve this, we need to bring net emissions down from current levels to zero by the middle of this century. This is a truly herculean task and will require changes to many aspects of the way in which we live, work and travel. One of the issues
Allan is a soil hydrologist at the James Hutton Institute with over 40 years experience in soil hydrology, soil survey and soil mapping. A key aspect of Allan's work is in interpreting soils data for a range of purposes and to make it more readily accessible to a wide range of users. His current focus is on estimating and quantifying soil carbon stocks. Allan is the curator of the National Soils Archive and the lead on the Research Deliverable Soil Management (1.1.4).
Alison is a potato pathologist based at the James Hutton Institute and is a key staff member leading Integrated Pest Management research.
Deb is Director of Science at the James Hutton Institute, and her research experience includes agricultural economics and regional science, with a nuber of inter-related areas. relation to rural and regional development she focuses on understanding how and why rural economies are unique, the key drivers for change, and reasons for regional disparities. Second, in relation to the policy, she has focussed on modelling the economy-wide impacts of changes in farm, forestry and structural policies using social accounting methods and general equilibrium models. Deb is the work package cordinator for
Eileen is a livestock genetics and systems researcher within the Animal & Veterinary Sciences Groups at SRUC, with experience in animal breeding, genetics, modelling and biostatistics. For SEFARI, Eileen is the Work Package Cordinator for Agricultural systems and land management; working on improving livestock management and genetics.
Background Farmers now have access to a wide range of modern farm management support tools and services. Smart farming refers to an approach which applies in-depth and frequently collected data with real-time processing to provide information for agricultural decision making. Precision agricultural technologies (PATs) are important to SMART farming because they allow for the management of tasks with multiple variables. The most common arable PATs are machine guidance technologies, which pilot machinery using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for greater accuracy. Variable rate technologies
Background The dietary choices and habits of a person cannot be divorced from climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems, or the more common focus, the prevalence of diet-related diseases (e.g. obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer). As regards climate change, it has been estimated that the food system (including e.g. agricultural production, processing, distribution, retail, cooking and waste) accounts for 20-30% of all UK greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Scotland has ambitious climate change targets, and these are set to increase through the Bill, and in the context of the 2015
Climate change, both projected and realised, impacts on livestock production – and livestock impacts on climate change, both here in Scotland and globally. Changing weather patterns can affect livestock directly, in terms of heat and cold stress, availability of food and water, and dictates what can be raised where and when. Climatic change also affects the prevalence, seasonality and geographic spread of livestock diseases. Less healthy livestock are inherently less efficient, and likely to have higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensities, i.e. to produce more kg of GHG per kg of edible