Sustainable and Holistic Food Chains for Recycling Livestock Waste to Land

Funder: RELU

Cost: £430k

Duration: 2005-2008

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• Project Overview
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• People and Institutions
• Results and Application
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Project Details

Highlights of research to date

• A case study of ten farms has begun with detailed monitoring of FIO flows and farming activity to assess the risk of pathogen transfer.
• A questionnaire has been designed and will be evaluated during on-farm interviews of up to 100 farmers in the catchment.
• The questionnaire will deliver mainly physical information on livestock and manure management, farm size, cropping, soil type, field slopes etc. and will be used to generate indicators of risk of FIO transfers from source to watercourse.
• The questionnaire will be followed up with a more detailed social science interview on a selected sample of farms.
• A leaflet (see below) has been designed to encourage farmer engagement.
• The first non-farmer stakeholder meeting took place in December 2005. A summary document was prepared for this meeting.

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