Reviewing and Developing Health Concepts for Ecological Agriculture
The project aims to critically review current health concepts in agriculture, to develop new, comprehensive and consistent health concepts for ecological agriculture.
PhD programme: An assessment of the environmental and economic impacts of a large-scale conversion to organic farming in the UK
The work proposed will be a policy-focussed series of papers exploring the theme of a large-scale conversion to organic agriculture within the UK and the sector’s relative environmental and economic performance to non-organic/conventional farming.
OCIS Public Goods Tool
The OCIS public goods project produced a tool which is designed to provide a simple, measurable and accessible way to show the ‘Public Goods’ that accrue through organic farming systems and the addition of an OELS agreement.
Development of methodology for assessing the environmental, economic and social characteristics of (organic and non-organic) farming systems
A range of UK farming systems will be described. A methodology will be developed, to describe their economic, environmental and social characteristics, from a life-cycle approach to capture inputs, products, outputs and impacts of the systems.