Food & Farming Futures/The National Library of Agri-food

The National Library for Agri-Food serves agri-food practitioners by providing access to recent, high quality, science-evidenced information and guidance in a well-constructed online repository with good metadata standards for easy searching and robust perma-links to content.

Website
https://www.nlaf.uk/
Twitter
https://www.twitter.com/FarmingFutures

The National Libraries for AgriFood is a knowledge exchange integrator service aimed at the food and farming industries, to help more efficient, sustainable supply chains. The service in currently being developed by an independant consortium body, Food and Farming Futures, as: a place where quality-vetted grey literature, advisory notices and research papers are held in collections appropriate to the agri-food sectors a large and competent repository of actual documents (mostly PDF files), videos and other electronic media files, rather than links to documents held elsewhere. You can find us on: https://www.nlaf.uk/ and join our 25K Twitter following under @FarmingFutures.

Sign up for our weekly email digesting what's new across agriculture and academia.

Follow us on our LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-national-library-of-agri-food/

 

 

Related Organisations

Connected Content

Knowledge

Farm-PEP aims to bring together all the sources of useful knowledge for Agriculture, whether from academic science, applied research projects, industry trials, farmers own trials or simple on-farm experience. Listed below are useful websites, organisations and websites that we know of.  Add any we've missed in the comments box or by adding as new content, or better still, as a new Group.  

Farming Press & Newsletters

The farming press is a very important route to disseminating knowledge across the industry.  A range of newsletters serving a host of communities help keep people up to date. Share here sources of news and info that you find most useful.

Useful websites

What web resources do you find useful to find and share knowledge?

Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge Exchange in Agriculture in the UK is diverse, with many organisations involved. That is part of the reason for creating Farm-PEP, to help provide connections to what many percieve as a fragmented landscape.

Application of Science to Realise the Potential of the Agricultural Transition

Report by Lord Curry (Food & Farming Futures), James Lowenburg-DeBoer and Michael Lee (Harper Adams University) into how agricultural science and extension can be supported and co-ordinated to address the productivity gap in UK agriculture.    

Rewilding and its implications for agriculture

Where does rewilding sit in the future of food and agriculture? Rewilding is a contested term, described by some as laying a foundation for global biodiversity restoration and by others as a threat to human and non-human life in the countryside. This explainer explores how and why people disagree about rewilding, compares its various definitions, and considers how the rewilding debate ties in with different visions for the future of food.

Lack of knowledge holding farmers back from investing in agri-tech - NFU Report

NFU Mutual found almost half (46.2%) of survey respondents said lack of knowledge was holding the

Farmbench results: past, present and future

Mark Topliff, AHDB Lead Analyst – Farm Economics, uses Farmbench data to illustrate how crops

Regenerative Agriculture: An agronomic perspective

Paper by Ken Giller et al. exploring the practices defined as Regenerative Agriculture.

Reduction of fertiliser use is key to reducing climate impact of arable production

One of the few positives from the current fertiliser crisis is that it will at least force al

Digital direction – The digital revolution

There’s been an exponential growth in the adoption of digital farming tools in recent years – but

This weeks highlights

Seaweed in agriculture

Seaweed’s and macroalgae’s agricultural use could have a role in circularity, particularly in coa

This week's highlights from Food & Farming Futures (14th May 2022)

F&FF Highlight (25th May 2022)

Pig welfare and water use

Novel Teagasc study finds providing pigs with a high enrichment allowance reduces water usage and

This week's highlights from F&FF (21st May 2022)

Food & Farming Futures F&FF

The independent, collaborative news and information source for farming and food

Rewilding and its implications for agriculture

Where does rewilding sit in the future of food and agriculture? Rewilding is a contested term, de

Comparative economics of Sida hermaphrodita (L.) Rusby and Silphium perfoliatum L. as bioenergy crops in Europe

Silphium could provide a profitable and viable perennial bioenergy crop. For Sida to be a profita

Precision approaches for sustainable soils - CHAP report

Precision approaches and technologies will play a key role in successful, economically viable and

Potential co-benefits and trade-offs between improved soil management, climate change mitigation and agri-food productivity

B

Ergot Explained

Ergot is a fungus that grows on rye, triticale, wheat and barley, and to a lesser extent, oats. I

New YEN data suggests how to grow more than 7 t/ha beans

The YEN programme has highlighted factors not previously recognised as important for achieving go

Data-driven decision making in pig farming: A review of the literature

Current studies focus on isolated and one-off problems, and we suggest future research to conside

Rapid Risk Assessment for spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 from wild birds to poultry from the shooting of wild waterfowl and wild game (including formerly captive) birds

Expert opinion during the HPAI H5N8 epizootic of 2016/2017 was that wildfowling, or more general

What is Conventional Agriculture?

Paper by James Sumberg and Ken Giller in Global Food Security, 2022

F&FF - Monday's featured article (23 May 2022)

Improving connectivity in the seed potato supply chain Claire Hodges'

Fertiliser use could be reduced with nature-based farming, shows major study

Analysis of 30 long running farm experiments in Europe and Africa by Rothamsted Research has show

F&FF Highlight 27th May 2022

Stopping the spread: Researchers create rapid test for deadly infections in livestock, starting with pigs

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new form of rapid test to detect infections i

Data-driven decision making in pig farming: A review of the literature

Current studies focus on isolated and one-off problems, and we suggest future research to conside

Translational research in agriculture. Can we do it better?

A major reason for the predominant failure of translational research from laboratory to field is

F&FF Featured article, 28th May 2022

Review: Improving the performance of neonatal piglets

Newborn piglets have a high incidence of preweaning mortality that is not only associated with lo