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Cost and scale of field trials for bovine TB vaccine may make them unfeasible
Instead, the researchers suggest that the scale and cost of estimating the effect of a vaccine on transmission could be dramatically reduced by using smaller, less expensive experiments in controlled...
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In the heart of London there is a farm like no other. It's subterranean, sustainable and energy smart. It also has a digital twin looking out for its every need.
View ArticleReducing the rise of antibiotic resistance
Rising resistance to antibiotics is a worrying prospect, but a success story happening across the farms of the UK gives hope that something can be done.
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Intensive farming may actually reduce risk of pandemics, experts argue
In the wake of COVID-19, many have pointed to modern industrial farms with tightly-packed livestock as potential hothouses for further pandemics caused by 'zoonotic' diseases: those transmitted from...
View ArticleThe future of farming: from eating insects to urban agriculture
The Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School is supporting new ventures to improve sustainability in agriculture to meet the demands of a growing global population.
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Paying farmers to create woodland and wetland is the most cost-effective way...
Incentivising farmers to restore some land as habitats for nature could deliver UK climate and biodiversity targets at half the taxpayer cost of integrating nature into land managed for food...
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Carbon emissions from fertilisers could be reduced by as much as 80% by 2050
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that two-thirds of emissions from fertilisers take place after they are spread on fields, with one-third of emissions coming from production...
View ArticleTransition Live: Park Farm
University of Cambridge's Park Farm hosted one of the most important new agricultural events on the UK farming calendar this month.
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