Tag Archives: agriculture

1st October 2018 – Climate Change and Food: a Cosmologist’s Perspective

Posted on January 22, 2018 by jrsee

Professor Sarah Bridle returns to talk about food – a far cry from her “day job” investigating dark energy and dark matter as Professor in the Manchester University School of Physics and Astronomy! Motivated by the need to reduce global greenhouse gas … Continue reading →

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6th February 2017 – Farming & Agri-business

Posted on February 6, 2017 by KevinG

It’s two for the price of one at next month’s SciBar, when the joint presenters will be Anthony Clarkson, a local arable farmer, farming over a thousand acres in Cheshire and providing services (spraying etc.) to other local farmers, and … Continue reading →

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1st February 2010 – Is Farming Sustainable?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by DaveT

Dr Alastair Leake MRPPA ARAgS MIAgrM CEnv from The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Project Head of The Allerton Project, will talk to us about farming and the pressures on farming today. Alistair describes his topic: “The Allerton Project is 333 hectares … Continue reading →

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