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Find out about: What’s in our soils? | Contribution of soils to resilient ecosystems | Building soil carbon stocks with paper crumble
Building soil carbon: building a healthier soil
UEA explores the benefits of improved soil carbon management and interventions that will build carbon stocks.
Evidence suggests that UK arable soils have been losing carbon for 40 years (Environment Agency, 2019), contributing significantly to the country’s CO2 emissions. This in turn presents a challenge to the current conventional cultivation of arable farmland, as it has been observed to have detrimental effects on the ecosystem and structures within soil.
Soil Salvation
Find out about the importance of soil carbon and an option to move carbon from the atmosphere into the soil via paper crumble in a presentation from Brian Reid, Professor of Soil Science and Associate Dean for Science (Innovation) at the University of East Anglia.
UEA and Greenworld Ltd: Building a healthier soil
Hear about a collaboration between researchers in the School of Environmental Sciences (UEA) and Greenworld Ltd, a recycling and waste management company based in Norfolk, that explores the potential of paper crumble as a means to enrich soil, improve retention of water and nutrients, and increase productivity. This interview includes Prof Brian Reid from UEA and Steve Kilham, Managing Director of Greenworld Ltd.
Soil Salvation
Find out about the importance of soil carbon and an option to move carbon from the atmosphere into the soil via paper crumble in a presentation from Brian Reid, Professor of Soil Science and Associate Dean for Science (Innovation) at the University of East Anglia.
UEA and Greenwiorld Ltd: Building a healthier soil
Hear about a collaboration between researchers in the School of Environmental Sciences (UEA) and Greenworld Ltd, a recycling and waste management company based in Norfolk, that explores the potential of paper crumble as a means to enrich soil, improve retention of water and nutrients, and increase productivity. This interview includes Prof Brian Reid from UEA and Steve Kilham, Managing Director of Greenworld Ltd.
Interested in finding out more about the work being done at the University of East Anglia in Agriculture?
Click the links below to read UEA’s Know More Grow More report and to find out more about Professor Brian Reid, the School for Environmental Sciences and UEA for Business; alternatively, click the email icon in the ‘Connect’ section to email Business at UEA.
“The NFU has set a Net Zero 2040 aspiration to neutralise the carbon footprint of farming. Within this aspiration is the vision to make gains through improved soil carbon management and interventions that will build soil carbon stocks. We are looking forward to talking to farmers and growers about the opportunities to increase soil carbon and achieving Net Zero on the farm to help realise this vision.”
Professor Brian Reid, UEA
Reaching net zero using carbon capture and byproducts on farm
Join Brian Reid, Professor of Soil Science at the University of East Anglia and Gareth Roberts, Co-Founder of Cambond, for this 25 minute podcast as we look at the opportunities to use by-products and soil carbon capture to help us achieve the NFU’s goal of net zero by 2040.
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The University of East Anglia (UEA) is an internationally renowned, campus based university at the heart of the economy of Norfolk and Suffolk, providing top quality teaching to over 15,000 students and undertaking world leading research addressing major global challenges with world-class impact.
Their specialisms include health and nutrition, the environment and responses to climate change, investigating consumers, competition and regulation, computing science through to creativity and enterprise. UEA has strong collaborative research links across the Norwich Research Park. In terms of the number of most highly cited scientists, Norwich is ranked fourth in the UK.
UEA is internationally renowned for its research excellence – placed in the UK top 15 and world top 80 for research impact through citations of their research by the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2014-5 and recently ranked in the world’s top 100 universities for research excellence by the Leiden Ranking.
The University offers a vast range of opportunities for businesses to access the insights of their innovative researchers, students and graduates and use specialist facilities to solve technical, strategic and operational issues. Business can work with the University on small ad-hoc projects to longer, more complex strategic engagements.
