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Increase and maintain trust to ensurepeople feel safe where they live, wherethey work, and in their environment New Technologies: How are new technologies and work practices being adopted by those using chemicals (e.g. next generation crop protection, variable rate application, genetic modification and biological pesticides etc) and which emerging innovations are considered most viable (e.g. digital agriculture, field monitoring, robotics, etc) and likely to become mainstream and transformative? How can we ensure appropriate regulation ensuring chemicals are used safely whilst promoting the adoption of technologies with the potential to improve the sustainability of chemical use? Health and Safety Executive, 2023
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Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste What are the population-level impacts of sublethal pesticide and other chemical exposure in the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks We need to better understand the true value of plants and trees to society and deliver ongoing research to understand and prevent the introduction and spread of threats to UK plants – natural and crops. This include key threats such as Xylella, emerald ash borer, and other risks highlighted on the UK Plant Health Risk Register. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we use digital innovation and precision farming techniques to measure animal health and welfare outcomes for livestock, and to provide early warning of livestock disease and health threats? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks Endemic animal diseases undermine agricultural productivity, negatively impacting animal welfare, farmers’ livelihoods, public health, and threaten trade. Increased research into improved methods of detection and control of bovine TB and other such endemic diseases remains a priority for Defra Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we enable better biosecurity standards and behaviours to control and minimise the impact of disease and pests? how can we build systems that are resilient to introductions of pests and diseases and that can support adaptation and recovery? How can we breed animals and plants which are resistant to key diseases? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we develop and apply science, technology, and evidence to inform and deliver a risk-based approach to animal and plant biosecurity? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming What data and evidence are needed to inform policy and delivery and what are the best sources to meet these needs? How can we improve broad access to this data and enhance knowledge exchange across the agri-food industry? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming What capability and capacity in the food and farming industry is needed to deliver future rural community policy needs? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How can we best supply healthy safe sustainable affordable food that commands consumer confidence and meets the needs of all consumers (including vulnerable groups)? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How can innovation boost productivity to transform and future proof the food and farming system in ways that are sustainable and resilient; including the use of agritech, robotics, and automation to drive change and enable food and farming sectors to compete globally? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How do we reduce the impacts of production on the environment through more sustainable food production, processing, and manufacture? And how do we influence consumer choice towards healthy and sustainable dietary choices? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How do we future proof farming and food chains to global shocks? What is the potential for wild relatives, landraces, and orphan varieties to increase diversity and enhance resilience? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Remediation and emergencies Identify, prioritise, and investigate scientific and technical challenges for remediation from a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) or HAZMAT event Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Environmental monitoring and data science Advanced electronics: How will sensors, omics, geographical information systems, internet of things, be used to support regulation and enforcement needs across the agri-envrionmental and food sectors? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Behavioural and social science How can we encourage the development and dissemination of innovations in the agri-environment sector? What are the right conditions for success? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” What is needed to further understand the value of plants and the wider environment to society, and how is this relationship eroded by pests and disease? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Natural resources and trade How do we minimize the risk of plant and animal disease import to the UK as traded products change, and as the UK goes through a period of significant change in its international trading arrangements post-EU and post COVID-19? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use How can we optimise the food system to support future food production and consumption sustainably whilst reducing environmental impacts? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero Can other land-based approaches to greenhouse gas removal, such as enhanced weathering and biochar, help achieve net zero without negative environmental impacts? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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