Researcher
Dr. Colin R. Tosh is a Senior Agroforestry Researcher at the Organic Research Centre, specializing in agroecology and sustainable farming systems. With a BSc in Animal Biology and a DPhil in Ecology, his work focuses on integrating trees into farmland to enhance biodiversity and climate resilience. He works on projects like the Agroforestry ELM Test and AGROMIX, exploring how agroforestry can mitigate environmental stressors in agriculture. Previously an academic in ecology and evolution, Dr. Tosh transitioned to applied research to address global crises in biodiversity and food security. His publications span ecological theory, pest management, and agroforestry's role in sustainable farming. Outside work, he enjoys coastal fishing, organic gardening, and writing speculative fiction.
Content of interest
A year-long traineeship in Agroecology with land-based learning to help students transition into, or upgrade their skills in, the world of regenerative farming.
The world of farming and food…
The Sustainable Arable Farming For an Improved Environment (SAFFIE) project started in 2002 and experimental work continued until the end of 2006. When the project was conceived, arable farmers…
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YEN Zero is a recently established network in the ADAS YEN Family, with the overarching aim of creating a net-zero community. It aims to bring key players from across the agricultural industry…
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Webinar on Digital Technologies in Land-Use Net Zero
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On-farm research consultancy supporting the understanding of what works on-farm, through experimentation, evidence and exchange. Also by developing shared distilled explanations, utilising this…
Solutions presented at From Soya to Sustainability in Peterborough on Wednesday 22nd January included presentation of research carried out by SRUC, The James Hutton Institute and Agrii and the…
Revised figures reveal the full extent of the savings that would be made possible that increasing pulse production and displacing imported soya could bring.
Including legumes in the arable rotation clearly has the potential to lower environmental footprints, said Prof Pete Iannetta of The James Hutton Institute. “It’s not just greenhouse gases. There’s…
Putting farmers at the heart of innovation is key to getting the right technical solutions to their challenges.
Scientific paper in Big Data & Society by Monja Sauvagerd, Maximilian Mayer & Monika Hartmann of University of Bonn.
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Are environmental benefits (carbon, biodiversity...) best served by sharing agricultural land with nature, or by maximising yield in some areas to spare tracts of land exclusively for nature in other…
Thoughtpiece from Science for Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Pearsall, Peter Button & Derrick Wilkinson, counteracting calls for more nature friendly land sharing farm practices with the…
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Scientific paper by Andrew Balmford and colleagues at Cambridge University published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that reinforces the need for high yield agriculture to spare…
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On Farm Experimentation (OFE) is increasingly being recognised as having transformative power in improving performance in agricultural systems across the world.
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Agri-TechE is a not-for-profit, independent membership organisation dedicated to advancing agricultural innovation and sustainability.
We take pride in our decade-long commitment to transforming…
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The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) was launched in 2012 to support and energise on-farm learning-by-sharing and thus to enhance farming progress.
Introduction
Over the last few months at FCT, we have seen an increase in the interest in understanding the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of adopting more regenerative farming practices.
As a…
The two key objectives of this work are to identify the best scenario for optimizing environmental impact and financial return for farmers and to determine the carbon cost-benefit of transitioning to…
With climate unpredictability increasingly impacting the agricultural sector, the UK’s farming landscape is undergoing a novel transformative shift. Here, Sarah MacAfee, Technical Officer for LEAF…
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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is based on a diversity of pest management measures (prevention, non-chemical control, best practices for optimizing pesticide efficiency, etc.). These are combined…