Delivering Sustainable Production Systems
Highly productive, profitable agriculture can benefit from biodiversity and environmental sustainability. Current challenges including depleting fuel and fertiliser resources, freshwater shortages, increasingly erratic weather, loss of biodiversity and degradation of the soil resource threaten the global supply of food. Our strong environmental, crop, livestock, modelling and socioeconomic expertise gives us the rare ability to get a holistic understanding of agricultural systems. We produce higher yielding and lower input crop varieties for specific environments, assess farming impacts on the health of soil and ecosystems and investigate social, economic and environmental drivers that affect the farming sector.
Delivering Sustainable Production Systems Theme Leader: Paul Hallett
Our research
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Improving the plant - Optimising soil conditions
- Root-soil interactions
- Benefitting from biodiversity
- Rotations and cropping practice
Our scientists
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Agroecology - Crop science and agronomy
- Geographical sciences
- Livestock and grazing
- Root biology
- Socioeconomics
- Soil science
Our facilities
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Analytical and laboratory - Glasshouse and controlled environment
- Field experiments
- Centre of Sustainable Cropping
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