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Chris Atkinson

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Agricology @agricology.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🚜The first event in the #ResilientFarmRoadshow series with AHDB is underway! Today we're at the James Hutton Institute in Scotland with our expert guests, sharing the secret to building a stronger farm business. 💪 Get your free ticket to the next Roadshow: agricology.co.uk/launch-resil...
Screen set up to present with the Resilient Farm Roadshow logo Conference room with round tables and chairs. People in the background standing up and talking to each other. Presentation slide with a definition of the word resilienceStephen Briggs delivering his presentation
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan. 👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Read the reports: ➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications... ➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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Organic Growers Alliance @ogagrowers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Can you help an @coventrycawr.bsky.social MSc student who's investigating pollinating insects e.g how management approaches such as planting attractant plants can be most effectively utilised and their pros and cons? He has set up a short survey for growers to complete forms.gle/FDj5Q4jXLn9u...
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Farmer Survey: Pollinators, Farming Practices & Conservation
Thank you for taking part in this study. This survey explores farmer attitudes, knowledge, and practices relating to pollinators on farmland. Your responses are anonymous and will contribute to MSc re...
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Soil Association Scotland @soilassocscot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“Sustainability & profitability can go hand in hand”, says Stuart Henry (Oakwood Mill Farm) of their low-intervention, #Organic beef enterprise. Join us on Wed 16 July to explore a #WholeFarm approach & #AnimalWelfare in action. Book your free place now👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-hea...
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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
📢 Only 7 days left to apply! IFOAM Organics Europe is looking for two Research & Innovation Officers to join our team: 🧑‍🌾 One focused on agriculture-oriented projects 🥗 One focused on food processing-oriented projects 📅 Don't miss this opportunity! Apply by 11 May: 🔗 ow.ly/NtCe50VJReJ
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Applied Vegetation Science @applvegsci.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Check out our new Special Issue, which features 16 papers on the Grazing Effects on Vegetation: vegsciblog.org/2024/09/26/g...
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Grazing effects on vegetation: biodiversity, management and restoration – a new Special Issue in AVS - vegsciblog.org
A new Special Issue in Applied Vegetation Science focuses on the effects of grazing on vegetation. Edited by Péter Török,
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ECIU @eciu.net · 16/12/2024
Climate impacts on UK food imports We live in a globalised world. Few systems represent that as clearly as our food system. The UK imports half of its food, and around half of that comes directly from vulnerable countries that lack capacity to respond.
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Climate impacts on UK food imports
Spotlight on: climate-vulnerable countries
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Markus Steffens @imvisir.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Cover cropping in organic reduced tillage systems: supporting soil microorganisms or increasing SOC? We have the choice! Cool and ambitious study by Simon Oberholzer bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cover cropping in organic reduced tillage systems: Maximizing soil cover or plant above ground biomass input?
Description of the two cover cropping strategies.
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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 14/12/2024
Cracking PhD opportunity at Reading. Agroforestry trees for #soil health, climate resilience, and food security #Agroecology #FoodStudies
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PhD Studentship in Ecology and Agri-Environmental Research: Agroforestry trees for soil health, climate resilience, and food security at University of Reading
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a PhD Studentship in Ecology and Agri-Environmental Research: Agroforestry trees for soil health, climate resilience, and ...
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Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming @sustainweb.org · 09/12/2024
UK farming sector at risk due to extreme weather, soaring inflation and chronic supply chains. READ open letter coordinated by Sustain + @wclnews.bsky.social w/ 41 TOP food, farming and nature groups ⬇️ @wwf.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social www.sustainweb.org/news/dec24-e...
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Over 40 food, farming and nature groups urge government to fix agriculture sector | Sustain
Extreme weather, soaring inflation and chronic supply chains are putting the UK's farming sector at serious risk, says open letter coordinated by Sustain and Wildlife and Countryside Link.
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Tom Lancaster @tommlancaster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have some new analysis out today on *the* biggest problem facing English nature conservation… …& increasingly climate goals… …& farm incomes… It’s the befuddling failure of Defra to stand up a higher tier land management scheme 🧵… t.co/jYmsFI4YLx
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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/nature-government-brexit-national-trust-north-yorkshire-b2659105.html
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
📜 New Citizen Manifesto As we continue to work with citizens to develop a National Citizen Manifesto, to be launched in 2025, here’s an early preview of the top five messages citizens want decision-makers to hear...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 22/11/2024
The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
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We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions
Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Agrivoltaics (growing crops under solar panels) can improve water conservation in Africa www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/22/a...
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Agrivoltaics can improve water conservation in Africa
Research led by the University of Sheffield installed an off-grid agrivoltaic system in Tanzania and a grid-tied agrivoltaic system in Kenya. They found the installations helped boost crop yield and c...
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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📢 NEW PhD opportunity: Peatlands, plants, and pollinators. This exciting project will use population genetics & landscape info to inform conservation management strategies for the endangered Large Heath butterfly across Scotland's peatlands. 👇🏼 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Large Heath butterfly (Bob Eade)
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Tom Lancaster @tommlancaster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
For me, the government reforms of Agricultural Property Relief (APR) miss two big opportunities 1. The political opportunity Labour had coming in to win over more farmers & ‘deep rural’ voters 2. The policy opportunity to use APR more imaginatively A 🧵 on what I mean…
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Growing crops under solar panels 🌱🌽⚡️ Austrian utility building 164 MW agrivoltaic plant www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/18/a...
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Austrian utility building 164 MW agrivoltaic plant
Burgerland Energie says it is building a 164 MW tracker-based agrivoltaic facility near Tadten-Wallern on Lake Neusiedl, southeastern Austria.
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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’ve written about the recent Labour budget and what it might mean for an agricultural green transition. Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red theconversation.com/farm-inherit...
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Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red
If British farms are less competitive then food production will simply shift elsewhere.
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"We estimate that less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects - Nature Communications
Carbon markets are key in climate strategies, but only 16% of carbon credits represent real emission reductions, based on a study of 2,346 projects. Reforms are needed to improve the effectiveness of ...
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François-Xavier Joly @fxjoly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
To people referring to soil invertebrates as 'insects', I have a visual for you. You could say this really bugs me. 🧪
Visual representing the diversity of soil organisms that can be considered as invertebrates (a lot), arthropods (a bit less), and insects (a lot less).
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SoilMicroBio @soilmicrobio.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We've a 5 month Research officer role assessing the impact of management & climate on soil ecology available at Teagasc in Wexford, Ireland as part of the soilguard project. topjobs-teagasc.thehirelab.com/LiveJobs/Job... Deadline 22/11/24
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Herbert Nickel @herbertnickel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Tibor Hartel about one of the greatest landscapes we still have in the EU. Unfortunately it is fading away between our fingers, accelerated by EU policy. Imho the greatest ecological catastrophe in Europe of our time which is also bad for climate due to enormous mineralisation of carbon from soils.
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Konstantinos Tsilimekis @ktsilimekis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
EEA-Briefing: "Solutions for restoring #Europe ’s #agricultural #ecosystems" "... (1) improving the condition of semi-natural habitats; (2) (re-)establishing multifunctional, biodiverse agricultural landscapes; and (3) reducing pressures on #biodiversity while managing soil and water sustainably."
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Solutions for restoring Europe’s agricultural ecosystems
This briefing presents evidence-based examples of key options to help restore Europe’s agro-ecosystems and ecosystem services and enhance agricultural resilience and productivity. It is published in t...
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A new paper in Nature offers yet more evidence of the immense #inequality in who contributes to climate change and breaching planetary boundaries. It's time we direct our societal and political attention to those who disproportionately cause ecological breakdown! 🌱⚖️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries - Nature
An analysis of the environmental footprints of consumption finds that planetary boundary transgressions can be mitigated by following an effective mitigation pathway focused on the food and services s...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"There are two things that get me out of bed in the morning - one is my alarm clock and the other is ecosystem function." Great piece in the @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social mag by Director David Smyth
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Read Tim's full report: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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The False Economy of Big Food
And the case for a new food economy
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