$18 bn
BusinessPublic
$31 bn
= £12 billion per year
Includes:Machinery,Pesticides,SeedsBreeding and Processing industries…
…but not farming
GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL R&D
Field labs
80%of farmers CCRI
surveyed will
“definitely keep
attending”
28topics
650 farmers
“from
advice
takers to
advice
makers”
Where next?
Innovation
clubs
Thank you! Please get in touch to find out more:
Tom MacMillan, Soil Association
www.soilassociation.org/fieldlabs
Background explained in article in Nature Issue 509, May 2014