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Lessons from the past
Until around 2,500 years ago, river valleys on Peru’s south coast were filled with dry forests. But as they cleared trees for agriculture the ancient Nasca inadvertently exposed this landscape to a...
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Latest archaeological finds at Must Farm provide a vivid picture of everyday...
Archaeologists have made remarkable discoveries about everyday life in the Bronze Age during their ten-month excavation of 3,000-year-old circular wooden houses at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, a site...
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Casting light on the dark ages: Anglo-Saxon fenland is re-imagined
The East Anglian fens with their flat expanses and wide skies, a tract of some of the UK’s richest farmland, are invariably described as bleak – or worse. Turn the clock back 1,000 years to a time when...
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Massive projected increase in use of antimicrobials in animals could lead to...
The researchers, from ETH Zürich, Princeton, and the University of Cambridge, conducted the first global assessment of different intervention policies that could help limit the projected increase of...
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Changing the face of Indian farming
The rains are less reliable. Sudden heat waves create challenging conditions for crops. Poor harvests result not only in debt, but also in malnutrition for smallholder farmers. Farming in India is not...
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Cambridge and Indian partners launch collaboration to transform India’s...
The adoption of modern methods and new technologies in agriculture that propelled India to self-sufficiency in grain production in the second half of the 20th century is known as the country’s “Green...
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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...
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Périgord black truffle cultivated in the UK for the first time
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Mycorrhizal Systems Ltd (MSL) have confirmed that a black truffle has been successfully cultivated in the UK for the first time: the farthest north that...
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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