Sustainable and holistic food chains for recycling

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Sustainable and holistic food chains for
recycling livestock waste to land Dr. Dave
Chadwick, Dr. Chris Hodgson (IGER) Prof. Louise
Heathwaite, Dr. David Oliver (Lancaster
University) Prof. Michael Winter, Dr. Rob Fish
(University of Exeter)
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BACKGROUND
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Farm / Field
Catchment / Regional
AIMS
Farmer interviews Perceptions Management Hydrology
/topography Economics
Monitoring Current
Experimental Controls of survival Transport
mechanisms
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RESULTS Risk tool development
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RESULTS cont.

• Farmer Survey gt70 interviews
• Expert-weighted risk tool being further refined
  and extended
• Social aspects
• Evidence from experiments
• Mitigation

Relative Faecal coliform concentration in the soil

• 8 15 22 29 36 43 50
  57 64 71 78
• Days after application

control surface spread
shallow injection
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DISSEMINATION

• Stakeholder group
• Farmers
• Defra
• BBSRC
• Website
• Conferences
• Journal papers