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UK scientists are working on a £4.7m study to understand the scent signals used by rodents - work which could help to reduce harvest losses. read more..
Scientists have made a breakthrough that could eventually result in high-yielding, flood-tolerant crops and play an important role in improving global food security. read more..
Peter Kendall will be among the speakers when the Centre of Excellence for UK Farming and Farming Futures team up to consider the future of the industry. read more..
Monday October 31 is the day on which the United Nations estimates world population will reach seven billion. read more..
NFU President Peter Kendall will be on the panel of experts for a Farmers Guardian web debate today (Friday) at 1pm. read more..
NFU chief economist Phil Bicknell considers the outcomes of the recent G20 agriculture meeting and its efforts to address volatility. His analysis follows a week in which US corn futures recorded their steepest fall in 15 years, on the back of USDA figures that showed American farmers have sown unexpectedly large areas despite wet weather. read more..
Increasing production must be an explicit government policy goal, NFU Vice President Gwyn Jones told a food security forum in London yesterday. read more..
Our economics and international affairs team has put together a briefing on the key piece of work to come out of the recent G20 meeting of agricultural ministers in Paris. read more..
The BBSRC has awarded £12m of funding to train industry specialists working in vital areas within the agri-food sector. read more..
Farmers will face increased volatility in the coming decade as the market adapts to higher global demand and a lack of long term investment in production. read more..
Defra secretary Caroline Spelman and her Brazilian counterpart have called for G20 action on food price volatility. read more..
The FAO has released a first forecast for world wheat production in 2011, predicting a 3.4% increase. Get the early indications worldwide here. read more..
Government should be looking at all policy through a ‘food lens’ if it is to meet the challenges laid down in the recent Foresight report, the NFU has said. read more..
A major government report has set out how farmers might feed a world population of nine billion by 2050 while using fewer natural resources. read more..
The NFU's Tom Hind reports from this year's Chatham House food security conference, ‘Making Food Security Work’. read more..
Our message was clear at the Inside Government Food Security Forum. Farmers can and will grow more food to feed a growing population - and they will do it while impacting less. read more..
We respond to a Soil Association report questioning our future food needs. read more..
Industry must make a significant investment if it is to produce more food while impacting less on the environment. Read our 2010 Budget submission here. read more..
Farmers take their place at the table as major research funding bodies come together to talk food security. read more..
Read an NFU summary of Defra's landmark Food 2030 strategy document read more..
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