What impacts will other policies have on plant health and how can plant health be embedded across multiple policy areas?
Background
Question Group: Working with nature to improve plant, animal and soil health, enhancing agricultural practices, and promoting resilient food systems. It also encompasses innovation in disease control, climate adaptation for crops and stock, strengthening food safety and sustainable farming to reduce environmental pollution and boost productivity.
Sub-questions: -what will be the interactions from new agriculture reform, land use, biodiversity and climate change policies, and their impact on plant health?
-how can biosecurity be embedded?
-how can we mitigate against known and unknown pathogen threats and unintended plant health consequences as a result of wider policies?
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Environment natural resources agriculture research strategy 2027 2032
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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EMPHASIS-GO: Bringing Emphasis to Operation: European Infrastructure for Multi-Scale Plant Phenomics and Simulation for Food Security in a Changing Climate
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Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
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Unravelling beneficial multi-species interactions in a cereal crop system
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Why might this be relevant?
Partially addresses plant health impacts and beneficial interactions in crop systems.
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Impacts of climate change on the risks of biological and chemical environmental contaminants from agriculture to human health
Climate change models predict that average UK temperatures will increase by up to 5 degrees celsius by the 2080s, that winters will be wetter and summers drier and that intense rain events will be more frequent (UKCIP200...
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Why might this be relevant?
Partially addresses the impacts of climate change on biological contaminants and human health.