Martin Collison has been appointed as one of 20 experts on food supply chains from 14 members states across Europe who have been brought together to form a new ‘Focus Group’ which meets for the first time in December 2014 in Prague. The Focus Group is charged with reviewing the potential offered by ‘Innovative Short Food Supply Chain Management’. The group is charged with 5 tasks to help shape EU policy and investment in this area:
Identify and analyse the different alternative food supply chain models existing in Europe.
read morePositive response to digital divide campaign in Westminster
Business leaders and community representatives from across East Anglia received a positive response when they outlined the need for improvements to rural mobile signal and broadband in Westminster on Monday (22nd).
read moreShetland ram lamb Tilney Victor has been exported to Belgium to a farm park which is seeking to introduce new bloodlines into sheep flock and the wider Belgian farming community.
read moreMartin Collison today spoke about the challenges of agriculture in the context of the global pressures on resources at the International 2014 Earth Systems Governance Conference at the University of East Anglia.
read moreMartin was part of a small delegation which met DEFRA Minister George Eustice during his visit to the Cambridgeshire County Show on Sunday 1st June. During an hour long meeting the importance of agricultural technology and a progressive science led approach to the development of he industry was discussed.
read moreApril 2014 – Greater Lincolnshire LEP (GLLEP) publishes a new Agri Food Sector Plan developed by Collison and Associates
GLLEP has published an ambitious plan for the Greater Lincolnshire Agri Food sector which was developed by Collison and Associates to focus the development of the industry. The plan envisages doubling the value of the agri food sector in Lincolnshire by 2030 through an ambitious programme of investment by industry backed by government. The plan foresees growth in the UK and export markets supported by new product development, investment in technology and automation and a drive to recruit and train additional highly skilled staff.
read moreMartin Collison spoke at a Norfolk NFU meeting on the challenges of water supply for agriculture. Martin discussed the challenge posed by a rising population, increase demand for crops such as salads which need irrigation, climate change and the fact that many of the parts of the World from which we currently import these crops are now running short of water supplies.
read moreHGCA have published a Water Footprint Guide to Cereals and Oilseeds which was developed with Collison and Associates to guide their investment in applied research on water resources.
read moreEdge Apprenticeships is a partnership project which we have helped to develop and launch. The result of a meeting held by New Anglia LEP FFREB sub group in spring 2012 chaired by Martin, the project is designed to help find the next generation of skilled technicians and junior managers in agriculture.
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