Image Resources Our extensive research library contains thousands of summaries of journal articles, reports and news stories that can be searched by keyword and category RESOURCES CATEGORYBooksBriefing paperEvent recordingFeatured articlesFeatured reportGameJournal articlesNews and resourcesReportsThink pieceVideoWorking paperWorkshop summary YEAR201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Resource GM crops and foods: follow up to the Food Matters report Read Resource Environmental improvement potential of meat and dairy products Read Resource Report: Growing pains: the possibilities and problems of biofuels This report from Christian Aid argues that the debate on biofuels needs to focus not on whether some biofuels can deliver or are better than others, but instead on the policy model that is pushing biofuels, which it argues is fundamentally flawed. Read Resource Biodiesel from poultry feather meal Researchers at the University of Nevada have developed a new process for producing biodiesel from commercial feather meal. The process is described in their paper published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Kondamudi N, Strull J, Misra M and Mohapatra S. (2009). A Green Process for Producing Biodiesel from Feather Meal. Agric. Food Chem., 2009, 57 (14), pp 6163 - 6166. Read Resource Shifts in African crop climates by 2050 and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation Burke M B, Lobell D B, Guarino L (2009). Shifts in African crop climates by 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation. Global Environmental Change, Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 317-325. Read Resource GDPRD Agriculture and Climate Change: fifth issues paper Read Resource Australian food and farming report The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has launched Paddock to Plate: policy propositions for sustaining food and farming systems. This is the second and final phase of the Future Food and Farming project, commissioned by the ACF and undertaken by Andrew Campbell of Triple Helix Consulting. Read Resource Soil carbon for carbon sequestration and trading: a review of issues for agriculture and forestry This report, published in March 2009 by the Australian government proposes that organic soil carbon can be divided into at least three ‘pools’ according to how fast it breaks down and is replaced. The pools are commonly divided into: fast (e.g. annual), slow (e.g. decadal) and passive (e.g. millennial). For carbon sequestration (long-term storage) and carbon trading purposes, it is especially desirable to increase the total amount of carbon in the pools that break down slowly (e.g. the slow and passive pools). Read Resource Dairy UK to produce an industry wide carbon footprinting guide Dairy UK and the Carbon Trust are announcing major plans for an industry-wide carbon footprinting guide, as a new report shows strong progress towards environmental targets in the Milk Roadmap. Work is just beginning with the Carbon Trust to develop the detailed footprinting guide for dairy, with strong support from dairy companies and other industry stakeholders, including the farming sector. The intention is to build on general work completed last year under Publicly Available Specification 2050. Read VIEW MORE
Resource Report: Growing pains: the possibilities and problems of biofuels This report from Christian Aid argues that the debate on biofuels needs to focus not on whether some biofuels can deliver or are better than others, but instead on the policy model that is pushing biofuels, which it argues is fundamentally flawed. Read
Resource Biodiesel from poultry feather meal Researchers at the University of Nevada have developed a new process for producing biodiesel from commercial feather meal. The process is described in their paper published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Kondamudi N, Strull J, Misra M and Mohapatra S. (2009). A Green Process for Producing Biodiesel from Feather Meal. Agric. Food Chem., 2009, 57 (14), pp 6163 - 6166. Read
Resource Shifts in African crop climates by 2050 and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation Burke M B, Lobell D B, Guarino L (2009). Shifts in African crop climates by 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation. Global Environmental Change, Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 317-325. Read
Resource Australian food and farming report The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has launched Paddock to Plate: policy propositions for sustaining food and farming systems. This is the second and final phase of the Future Food and Farming project, commissioned by the ACF and undertaken by Andrew Campbell of Triple Helix Consulting. Read
Resource Soil carbon for carbon sequestration and trading: a review of issues for agriculture and forestry This report, published in March 2009 by the Australian government proposes that organic soil carbon can be divided into at least three ‘pools’ according to how fast it breaks down and is replaced. The pools are commonly divided into: fast (e.g. annual), slow (e.g. decadal) and passive (e.g. millennial). For carbon sequestration (long-term storage) and carbon trading purposes, it is especially desirable to increase the total amount of carbon in the pools that break down slowly (e.g. the slow and passive pools). Read
Resource Dairy UK to produce an industry wide carbon footprinting guide Dairy UK and the Carbon Trust are announcing major plans for an industry-wide carbon footprinting guide, as a new report shows strong progress towards environmental targets in the Milk Roadmap. Work is just beginning with the Carbon Trust to develop the detailed footprinting guide for dairy, with strong support from dairy companies and other industry stakeholders, including the farming sector. The intention is to build on general work completed last year under Publicly Available Specification 2050. Read
