Launching – Woodlands for Climate Change Award
The award has been introduced alongside existing RFS Excellence in Forestry categories to raise awareness of, and promote the importance of, managing woods for resilience to increased threats to woodlands from pests, disease and climate change. It will reward planting that uses more diverse native and novel tree species to ensure Britain continues to […]
AIC welcomes FAO report on livestock production and climate change
The Agricultural Industries Confederation, which recently launched the Feed Adviser Register (FAR) welcomes a new global report that highlights how both livestock efficiency can be improved and climate change impact reduced, provided ‘best practice’ on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions is communicated effectively. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has published a report Tackling […]
Farming is part of the climate change solution
It comes following publication of the UN’s Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which reveals that scientists are 95 per cent certain that human activities are responsible for causing climate change, the warming trend observed over the past 60 years. NFU President Peter Kendall said: “The NFU firmly agrees that climate […]
Climate change report presents opportunities
CLA President Harry Cotterell said Managing the Land in a Changing Climate, which was released this week by the CCC, which independently advises the Government on climate change, was welcome. He said: “It advises the Government to make sure the market mechanisms – such as water trading and payments for maintaining carbon – are put […]
Water for Food group
The group was created during the 2012 drought and its membership reflects a wide range of interests in how water is used for food production – membership organisations like the NFU, CLA, CAAV and HTA; technical and research bodies like Cranfield University, the UK Irrigation Association, the Potato Council and the Association of Drainage […]
Evidence secures big savings for pig industry
The NPA and FEC have been working closely with the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to agree a 22.7 per cent energy saving target which will run from next year until 2023. Pig farmers who meet this target will then be able to claim a discount on CCL of 90 per cent […]
