Growing ecosystem services around farming

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July 18th, 2014 10:00 AM
Sophi Taylor building, Park Farm
Villa Road
Impington
Cambridge, CAM CB24 9NZ
United Kingdom
Phone: 01223 342206
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Full Registration £ 36.00

This British Ecological Society Agricultural Ecology SIG symposium will consider a range of ecosystem services, such as pollinators and the soil microbial community. Speakers will address how on-farm biodiversity can be achieved through the use of agri-environment schemes and new resources designed to promote healthy ecosystem service provision. In the afternoon there will be field-based talks by industry stakeholders using demonstrations of commercially available resources for ecosystem services on the NIAB Innovation Farm site.

July 18th, 2014 10:00 AM

This British Ecological Society Agricultural Ecology SIG symposium will consider a range of ecosystem services, such as pollinators and the soil microbial community. Speakers will address how on-farm biodiversity can be achieved through the use of agri-environment schemes and new resources designed to promote healthy ecosystem service provision. In the afternoon there will be field-based talks by industry stakeholders using demonstrations of commercially available resources for ecosystem services on the NIAB Innovation Farm site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Draft programme

10.00-10.15    ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION

10.15-10.20     Welcome and Introduction to NIAB Innovation Farm
                           Dr Lydia Smith; Head of NIAB Innovation farm, NIAB

10.20-10.45     Using agri-environment schemes to enhance pollination services
                            Dr Lynn Dicks; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

10.45-11.10    What if the world ran out of soil?
                          Prof. John Crawford; Head; Sustainable Systems Research, Rothamsted Research

11.10-11.30    REFRESHMENTS

11.30-11.55    On farm biodiversity can be achieved
                           Mr Marek Nowakowski; CEO; Wildlife Farming Company, Oxfordshire 

11.55-12.20   The road less travelled from'ecological services' to agronomic practice
                          Dr Pietro Iannetta; Molecular Ecologist, The James Hutton Institute

12.20-12.30    GutterGrow vertical allotment
                          Mike Anstey; Sustainable Opportunities Ltd

12.30-12.55    Food and thriving people: Paradigm shifts for fair and sustainable food systems
                          Dr Geoff Tansey; Writer and consultant; fair healthy and sustainable food systems

 13.15-14.00   NETWORKING AND LUNCH

 14.00-16.00    TOUR OF THE NIAB INNOVATION FARM FIELD AND GLASSHOUSES

Focusing on the range of resources that are being designed to provide food
and habitats for birds and pollinating insects and increasing biodiversity on farm

GutterGrow vertical allotment
Mike Anstey; Sustainable Opportunities Ltd
Pollinator mixtures
Barbara Smith; Game and Wildlife ConservationTrust
Margin mixes for biocontrol and biodiversity
Rothamsted Research
Supplying farmers
Paul Totterdell; Cotswold Seeds

 

 

 

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