Positive 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).
Shetland 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.
On17th July 130 leaders from industry, research and government gathered in the Peers Dining Room at the House of Lords to celebrate 50 years of the UEA and to launch the new Agri Innovation Fund developed by the Adapt Group at UEA.
Martin 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.
Martin was part of a small delegation which met DEFRA Minister George Eustice during his visit to the Cambridgeshire County Show on Sunday 1st June.
April 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.
On 21st March 70 delegates from across East Anglia gathered at Bedford Lodge Hotel in Newmarket to debate how East Anglia could make faster progress in closing the digital divide which rural communities suffer.
Martin 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.
HGCA 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.
Norfolk Rural Development Strategy was published on Friday 4th October at Barnham Broom Country Club, Norfolk. The event had presentations from Mid Norfolk MP, George Freeman, Chief Executive of Anglia Farmers Clarke Willis and George Nobbs, Leader of Norfolk County Council.