Pwllpeiran New Entrant Partnerships launched by Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth University officially announced the Pwllpeiran Upland Research Platform New Entrant Partnerships at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair today. The Partnerships offer a unique opportunity for up to two farmers with some experience in managing a livestock hill farm, to work in partnership to develop upland research programmes with the Institute and its researchers. Nigel Scollan, Waitrose Professor in Sustainable Agriculture at IBERS said; “This is an exciting prospect to work with us to investigate and demonstrate new innovations in Uplands Agriculture, and to identify and exploit new rural or land based enterprises and business opportunities. The challenges of food security, global warming and the protection of biodiversity require informed and improved use of the uplands through the development of new plants and animal systems. Innovative, science-driven approaches will be developed to meet these challenges, and as such IBERS is exceptionally well positioned to make a major contr...