Farmers have been invited to share tips on how to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis LIVESTOCK farmers are being invited to share their grassland management knowledge as part of a new project that will help inform future agricultural policy. The aim is to identify management practices that will improve the economic, environmental, and social performance of livestock farms. Led by researchers at Scotland’s Rural College and funded by SEFARI – a consortium of six Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes – the study will create practical guidelines, supporting policies and user-friendly indicators to monitor and benchmark farm performance. As part of the study, two online ideas boards have been created to enable grassland farmers to share and discuss their experiences.
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Open Calls for proposals in the BreedingValue project: European berry breeders invited to apply for funding
The EU-funded research project
BreedingValue, focusing on genetic resources in berries, has launched the first Open Calls for proposals. The Open Calls are a mechanism to transfer funding and knowledge from the project to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the field of berry breeding. With their launch, the project consortium, consisting of 20 partners from eight European countries, invites berry breeders from across Europe to test tools developed within the project. In turn, it allows them to explore the most promising genetic resources of their own breeding material.
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Golden Plovers breed on moorland before flying back south before winter
Working for Waders is a key initiative that is seeking to arrest the alarming decline in our wading bird population, writes Agnes Stevenson. They are an iconic feature of our coastline and estuaries and their long-legged and long-billed silhouettes appear too on lochs and lagoons, but the waders that are so much a part of our landscape are in dire trouble. In recent years populations of curlew and lapwing have collapsed, down 61% and 55% on what they once were, and oystercatchers too are struggling, with a third less of these beautiful birds being recorded around our shores.