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The Environmental Benefits of Organic Farming

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.

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Animal Health and Welfare Strategy

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

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FMD Lessons Learned Inquiry

EFRC submission on Foot and Mouth Disease

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The Importance of GM Crops for UK Agriculture

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

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Can Organic Farming Feed the World?

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

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Organic argiculture debate

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

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Consumer Perceptions of Organic Food Quality

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

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Wheat Breeding: Project Summary

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.
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Campylobacter: Project Output

Campylobacter Output

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