🚜There's still time to apply to join us as a Farm Sustainability #Researcher ! 🚜

Work on an #international project and help reduce farm environmental impacts using digital tools.

Full-time position University of Oxford, apply by 01-May-2024. Details below! #Sustainability #Oxford 🌍

🐽Reconciling trade-offs in pig farming requires a change in mitigation approach🐽

Don't want to read the full paper? You're in luck! Here's our research briefing

nature.com/articles/s4301…

Listen to Dr Harriet Bartlett 's interview for @BBCsounds 'Farming today' elaborating on her paper's findings & the importance of better labels for consumers to make informed choices:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Oxford Martin School Oxford Biology Future of Food Cambridge University

Do current pork labelling schemes help consumers make informed choices?

A study published in Nature Food has evaluated different types of pig farming, here is the good news and the bad. 👇 📷Credit: Liliana Resende

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Really cool & important work by Dr Harriet Bartlett 🤩😎 - empirically exploring trade-offs and synergies between biodiversity, public health & animal welfare in livestock systems.

Critical to sharing/sparing debate, and defining pathways to Nature- & People Positive future 🌿💪🏽

🐷New paper in Nature Food🐷

THE BAD NEWS: overall, we found trade-offs. Farms with lower GHGs had lower land use, but higher antimicrobial use and poorer welfare.

THE GOOD NEWS: trade-offs weren't inevitable. Several farms performed well in all four ways. 1/5

Want to work with farmers to help them improve their sustainability at scale? Come work with us!

Super cool job for a post-doc or research assistant at University of Oxford Oxford Martin School Oxford Biology with HESTIA Farm Sustainability Toolkit, EJ Milner-Gulland and me.

Worrying analysis of #conservation teaching in UK and Australia; v. limited social science teaching. I would've expected more practical focus at MSc level (I can see why an UG degree wld be more academic) but no. We must design courses for real-world needs conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/…

Are you interested in tackling climate change? Are you concerned about the impact food systems have on environmental degradation? 🌎

Check out this job at WRAP in partnership with HESTIA Farm Sustainability Toolkit team

linkedin.com/jobs/view/3873…

Can you smell spring in the air?

Now that the Spring Equinox has passed, our days will get steadily lighter and our nights will shorten 🌙☀️

Despite pollinator-friendly planting initiatives, bee populations are still declining 📉

New research with University of Exeter reveals plants aren't blooming early enough for bees, leaving them a 'hungry gap' - but planting early-flowering species can help 🌸👇
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More than a smattering of fritillaries now

Pasture for Life is seeking a dedicated Project Lead for our Pasture and Profit in Protected Landscapes programme in the Cotswolds and Chilterns National Landscapes.

Closing date 9am 18th March. Interview date 25th March. Job description here. pastureforlife.org/media/2024/02/…

Recently posted to our jobs & opportunities board:

2-year postdoctoral position at SLU in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods for current & future livestock systems

🗓️ 31 March 2024

More info here: tabledebates.org/opportunities/…