Sustainability
Sustainable intensification - the challenge for agriculture (News)
Achieving increased levels of productivity using existing land whilst causing minimal environmental damage is one of the greatest challenges of modern agriculture. Sustainable intensification, as the concept is known, will be the ... Read more
Compost Good Practice Meeting (Event)
This meeting aims to introduce delegates to the WRAP Good Practice Guide: Using PAS 100 compost in landscape and regeneration projects, and to provide a forum for scientists and stakeholders to discuss recent developments in compo ... Read more
Dr Cameron Grant and Emeritus Professor Pieter Groenevelt seminar (Event)
Dr Cameron Grant, University of Adelaide, South Australia and Emeritus Professor Pieter Groenevelt, University of Guelph, Canada will deliver this joint seminar entitled "Plant available water: What must happen to make its ac ... Read more
The nutritional carrying capacity of Scots pine woods for Capercaillie (Research Page)
Background and rationale ... Read more
Agricultural habitat usage by wood mice (Research Page)
Background Small mammals, such as the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), are a known food source for birds of prey such as barn owls and species of harrier, and rare large mammals such as pine marten, polecats and wildcats. Wood ... Read more
Conference to discuss Roots to the Future (News)
Global experts on one of the last frontiers of agricultural and ecological sciences will congregate in Dundee this week (26-29 June) to discuss how their research could lead to sustainable increases in crop productivity and more e ... Read more
SSCR Annual Lecture 2012 photos (Gallery)
The 2012 Scottish Society for Crop Research (SSCR) Annual Lecture was given by Mr Michael Hamell, Head of Unit, Agriculture, Forests and Soil, Environment Directorate-General, European Commission. His talk was entitled “Envi ... Read more
Warning signs on global soils “serious” (News)
Scientists from the James Hutton Institute, joined by distinguished colleagues from around the world, have called for a greater acknowledgement of the importance of soils in climate change mitigation, global food security and main ... Read more
Time to change the strategy in the battle for biodiversity (News)
The Chief Executive of the James Hutton Institute, Professor Iain Gordon, has called for greater support and investment in inter-disciplinary science to tackle rising extinction rates in the plant and animal world. Speaking at th ... Read more
Scottish scientists study a “Planet Under Pressure” (News)
The Chief Executive of the James Hutton Institute, and several senior scientists on his team, are heading to London shortly to take part in the Planet Under Pressure conference which gets underway at the new International Conventi ... Read more
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