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Reduce environmental impacts How can the vulnerability and role of habitats alongside transport infrastructure be better understood regarding climate change, pests, and disease? How can we increase resilience? Department for Transport, 2023
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks We need to better understand the impacts of invasive non-native species on our natural ecosystems, including as vectors of disease 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 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 do we protect pollinators and maximise beneficial insects? 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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Water How do we effectively monitor and assess the impact of emerging threats on water quality and ecology (for example plastics, antimicrobial resistance, neonicotinoid pesticides, nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals, invasive species, and chemicals) to inform risk-based decision making? 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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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” How can we improve the management of our ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, environmental degradation, and the introduction of alien species, to reduce the risk of infectious zoonotic, animal, and plant diseases? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” What is the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment and within food systems, and to what extent is this facilitating the development and transmission of AMR between animal and human populations? 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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