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Tag Archives: Soil
Pigs, organics, soils and the future of farming – a conversation with Helen Browning
Helen Browning is a passionate, committed organic farmer in love with pigs, CEO of the Soil Association, author, instigator and member of the RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, business woman and the only person I know who’s been on … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged Agriculture, food, Helen Browning, organic farming, Pigs, Soil, soil association
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Great new guide to global #soil #biodiversity from #EU on show @ESOF2016
My first degree was in soil science and it was great to see this beautifully illustrated Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas on display at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2016) in Manchester earlier this week. Despite all our lives depending upon soil, … Continue reading
Soil running out, growing faba beans in Scotland for people & fish, and Miscanthus for power stations?
When will our planet’s soil run out, given the way we’re (mis)using it? In about 50 years, according to Professor John Crawford, now director of the Sustainable Systems Programme at Rothamsted Research and formerly at the University of Sydney, Faculty … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged British Ecological Society, faba beans, Farming, James Hutton Institute, Miscanthus, Pietro Iannete, Soil, sustainability
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#Climate destabilisation and #biodiversity loss threaten our future – but too little attention is being paid to the latter
It seems to be a year of anniversaries for me. It’s 50 years since I went to university intending to study chemistry but then changing to study soil science. Soils are really complex physical, chemical, biological systems. Their health is … Continue reading →