Media coverage

Links to selected media coverage from the group

Sustainable agriculture:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/19/cities-should-grow-fruit-vegetables-roadside-verges-study-claims/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317130713.htm

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/arctic-tundra-saharan-sands-seconds-inside-sheffields-hidden-world-cutting-edge-climate-change-research-256993

https://inews.co.uk/news/urban-farming-growing-fruit-vegetables-grass-verges-five-a-day-healthy-eating-409184

https://www.technologynetworks.com/analysis/news/sensors-in-development-to-improve-soil-management-331336

https://nypost.com/2017/03/01/your-turkey-sandwich-is-contributing-to-global-warming/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/28/new-research-highlights-environmental-impact-of-bread.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4264934/Production-loaf-bread-emits-half-kilo-CO2.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2122857-a-loaf-of-bread-emits-half-a-kilo-of-co2-mainly-from-fertiliser/

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-39106180

From crap to crop: How human excrement could fertilise our farmlands

The Desert Garden:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-51466978

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/research/features/sheffield-zaatari-and-back-feeding-world-foam

Old mattresses used to grow crops in desert camp

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7995059/Old-mattresses-used-replace-soil-grow-vegetables-refugees.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51472821

Synthetic soils:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sustainable-food/news/scientists-develop-probiotics-help-plants-fight-disease-without-pesticides

https://inews.co.uk/news/plant-probiotics-soil-pesticides-430816

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8354399/Giving-plants-good-bacteria-help-fight-disease.html

https://environmentjournal.online/articles/university-of-sheffield-designs-sustainable-greenhouses-in-oman/

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-soil-foam-global-food-crisis.html

Sheffield scientists launch soil-free urban farm

Soil microbiology and Soil degradation:

https://theecologist.org/2019/may/23/soil-erosion-greatest-threat-planet

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200323132412.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-land-soil-food-security-shortage

Science and environmental policy:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/tackling-climate-change-1.529038

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-policy/what-the-new-agriculture-bill-contains-for-farmers

https://wun.ac.uk/article/cop21

https://theconversation.com/shocking-and-scary-how-trumps-victory-was-received-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-marrakech-68537

https://theecologist.org/2020/jan/16/agriculture-bill-back-parliament