Let’s talk about hedges
Our beautiful hedgerows support biodiversity, prevent flooding and counter climate change, but half have been lost in recent decades. A team of Reading researchers are informing the public about their...Read More >
Agriculture
Shaping Agricultural Policy
Agriculture policy decisions, including a replacement for the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, are being informed by an annual survey of financial data from 1,750 farms across England. The survey is…Read More >
Polytunnel research comes to fruition
The commercial success of a collaborative research project at the University of Reading is demonstrating how applied science has the potential to revolutionise the global agricultural sector, by bridging the...Read More >
Making nature counts count
Insect pollinators such as bees and hoverflies are critical components of our natural ecosystems, providing important crop pollination services. How their populations are changing in the UK, as they face…Read More >
Getting the UN buzzing
For the past two years, Simon Potts, Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, has been playing a major role in improving worldwide policies for the conservation of pollinators and their…Read More >
Bees, Please
How best to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators to food security? And how to ensure that threats they face as ecosystem providers are countered? For research fellow Dr…Read More >
Crops and climate change
As our climate changes, there will be big impacts on crop production. Understanding what these changes will be, and how they affect crops can only help us to better prepare...Read More >
Saving Britain’s pollinators
Pollinators are in decline worldwide – which species suffer most, what causes the declines and how this will impact nature and society?
