The UK agricultural industry has published its first report on progress made in delivering its Greenhouse Gas Action Plan. The report says that the sector’s plans for the provision of an innovative pilot Farm Efficiency Hub – an electronic library...
Another article that looks at organic versus conventional yields. It compares yields in both developed and developing world contexts and argues a. the case for a more nuanced approach to considering yield variations and b. for less dogmatism in the...
The cross-research council Food Security website reports on the findings of a team from the University of Cambridge and Rothamsted Research. This team has identified a family of genes that could help us breed grasses with improved properties for diet...
This paper finds that in 2007–2008, oil palm plantations directly caused 27% of total and 40% of peatland deforestation. Under a business as usual (BAU) scenario, by 2020 ∼40% of regional and 35% of community lands will be cleared for oil palm,...
The World Resources Institute have developed a database that lists policies and measures in 18 developing countries that have an impact on climate change. It’s a beta version, and so the WRI welcomes feedback on both the user-friendliness...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Commission have announced a €5.3 million three-year project to promote “climate-smart” approaches to agriculture. The goal of “climate-smart” agriculture is that it “sustainably...
This meta-analysis finds that yields in organic systems are on average 80% that of conventional yields. This is an analysis at crop level but the researchers suggest that the yield gap could be higher at farm, regional or global level due to the...
FCRN mailing list member Ken Giller is one of the authors of this paper on phosphorous which finds that average global phosphorous needs in 2050 will be less than previous estimates assume due to the presence of residual phosphorous in soils (from...
Venkat K (2012). Comparison of Twelve Organic and Conventional Farming Systems: A Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Perspective, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 10.1080/10440046.2012.672378
Nemecek T, Wiler K, Plassman K and Schnetzer J (2012). Geographical extrapolation of environmental impact of crops by the MEXALCA method, Unilever-ART project no. CH-2009-0362 “Carbon and Water Data for Bio-based Ingredients”: final report of phase 2...
