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Dr Debbie Sparkes

Description
Crop physiology and agronomy of temperate field crops. Organic crop production.

Dr Markus Eichhorn

Description
Trees and how they function with communities and ecosystems. Forests - temperate to tropical rainforests. Agricultural systems, particularly agroforestry and farm woodlands.

Dr Paul Wilson

Description
The economics of combinable peas, field beans and potatoes. Depreciation in agricultural machinery. Technical efficiency in agriculture. The influence of management of technical efficiency. Response of farms to climate change.

Dr Phil Garnsworthy

Description
The nutrition of dairy cows and maximising the efficiency of feed utilisation for milk production without compromising reproductive performance. Rumen fermentation. Near-infrared spectroscopy. Ration formulation. Computer modelling of animal reproductive systems.

Dr Stephen Ramsden

Description
Rural business management, agricultural policy, modelling farmer adaptation to environmental change.

Professor Charles Watkins

Description
Rural land management. History of the British landscape. History of forestry in Britain and Europe. History of agriculture. Wildlife conservation. Conservation of the black poplar. Social change in the British countryside. The effect of farming on the rural landscape and wildlife. Historic parks and gardens. Public access to the countryside. Landscape history of Liguria. Conservation of Sherwood forest.

Professor Colin Black

Description
Microclimatology in semi-arid and sub-humid tropical agroforestry systems. Impact of atmospheric pollutants on plants. Using green plants to remove pollutants in soils contaminated by heavy metals.

Professor Sayed Azam-Ali

Description
Tropical agriculture in relation to drought stress. Agriculture biodiversity and under-utilized crops.

Professor Shujie Yao

Description
Quantitative methods and applied econometrics. Development and agricultural economics. Microeconomics/business economics/international business and finance. Economic growth, income distribution and poverty. Economic development in China.

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