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21 May 2009 • James Clarke

How UK crop productivity could contribute to global food security

ADAS crop scientists have been involved in a major report which hopes to improve understanding of the importance of productive agriculture in addressing both global food security and green house gas concerns.

UK crop productivity and global food security has been the topic of a major report which ADAS has been involved in producing and which has just been published by the Government Office for Science (GO-Science).

This report shows the potential for the UK to almost double its production of wheat and oilseed rape. It highlights that increases in crop productivity are preferable to the extension of cropped areas because increased productivity w...

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