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Plant Breeding for Agricultural Diversity

Farm Auditing for Sustainability

Ecological Cropping Systems – An Organic Target

Information about COR

Given at the 11th International IFOAM Conference in Copenhagen , Denmark, August 1996.

A summary version of the report “Eating Oil: Food supply in a changing climate” produced by Sustain and Elm Farm Research Centre

An article by Professor Martin Wolfe, Research Director of EFRC

A DEFRA Project. This is the Executive Summary of the DEFRA-funded project, OF0405, by authors Mark Shepherd, Dr Bruce Pearce, Bill Cormack, Lois Philipps, Steve Cuttle, Anne Bhogal, Peter Costigan & Roger Unwin.

A consultation document by UK Government, the Scottish Executive and the National Assembly for Wales. Consultation response by Elm Farm Research Centre. Position statement.

EFRC submission on Foot and Mouth Disease

Society is not split – there are pockets of bewilderment, some indifference and there is some pro-GM opinion – but by and large public feeling seems to be more or less anti

Lawrence Woodward, Director of Elm Farm Research Centre, discusses the favourite question posed by critics of organic agriculture

Organic Agriculture: A Necessity or An Irrelevance in the Creation of A Sustainable Society?

by Lawrence Woodward and Prof Dr Angelika Meier-Ploeger. First presented by Lawrence Woodward, at the IFOAM Conference, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, November 1998.

A project summary for research project 'Generating and evaluating a novel genetic resource in wheat in diverse environments (AR 0194- Wheat Breeding)'. Output from this project can be accessed via links from the project summary.

A project summary for research project 'Towards One Hundred Percent Organic: Research and development to achieve a one hundred percent organic ration for the Sheepdrove poultry system: Trial 1 (SOF030/1 and SOF030/2)'. Output from this…

A project summary for research project 'Sustainable low-input cereal production: required varietal characteristics and crop diversity (SUSVAR- COST860)'. Output from this project can be accessed via links from the project summary.

A project summary for research project 'Towards One Hundred Percent Organic: Research and development to achieve a one hundred percent organic ration for the Sheepdrove poultry system: Trial 2 – Differing formulations of one hundred…

A project summary for research project 'Towards a sustainable whole-farm approach to the control of Ergot (ErgotLINK'. Output from this project can be accessed via links from the project summary.

A project summary for research project Towards One Hundred Percent Organic: Research and development to achieve a one hundred percent organic ration for the Sheepdrove poultry system: Trial 3 – The winter season and bird…

A project summary for research project 'The incorporation of important traits underlying sustainable development of the oat crop through combining 'conventional' phenotypic selection with molecular marker technologies (OatLINK)'. Output from this project can be accessed…

Learning and research for sustainable agro-ecosystems by both farmers and scientists