The notion of ‘landscape’ thinking is gaining momentum, promising a more sustainable future. But what does this mean in practice, and more importantly, what mechanisms exist for achieving resilient outcomes from our natural resources? On April 17th, 3Keel convened a roundtable event to investigate the question ‘Who shapes the landscape and why does it matter?’— […]
3Keel is undertaking a ground-breaking research project to quantify the economic cost to English agriculture of crop losses. We’re launching an appeal for potato, lettuce and strawberry growers to get involved in the study. There is currently a lack of good evidence on the scale of on-farm crop losses, however the causes are known to […]
On 9th March, Simon Miller attended the launch of ‘Leading Food 4.0’, from the National Centre of Universities and Business. The report from the Food Economy Task Force explores the opportunities for growing business-university collaboration for the UK food sector, coining the phrase from ‘lab to landfill’ to cover R&D innovation to opportunities at end-of-life. […]
On Monday Julian Cottee and Tom Curtis will be at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) presenting insights from 3Keel’s work on urban food systems. Organised in collaboration with the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, the seminar will explore how 3Keel’s FoodPrinting work has allowed cities and regions to model the […]
We are pleased to announce the first in our ‘3Keel events’ series, taking place in Oxford in April. We are posing the question: ‘Who shapes the landscape – and why does it matter for keeping Britain in business?’ We are inviting a selection of representatives from farming, food businesses, land owners, NGOs, academics and […]
3Keel reports from the Oxford Real Farming Conference – on the potential of new online platforms to transform the food supply chain. New technology has been the driving force in the transformation of food systems over the past centuries. In 1900, 40% of the US population was employed in agriculture (and 80% a century […]
This week saw the publication of a new edition of the International Dairy Federation research bulletin. Featured in it is an analysis I helped scope and deliver in partnership with Best Foot Forward for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). The paper presents results of detailed research assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]
As the controversy surrounding the floods in southern England has escalated, the debate has often centred on trade-offs between protecting housing, farmland and – to a lesser extent – natural habitats. For some quarters of the agri-food industry the images of flooded farmland is further proof that conservation management has gone ‘too far’ and is […]
This year’s Biosymposium at the University of Oxford Biodiversity Institute was…
