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The A-BioMe project is a collaborative industrial research project to extend the use of Agrisound automated insect monitoring system to give wider biodiversity, landscape and environment information. The envisaged product will be the first fully-automated acoustic landscape monitoring system - a maintenance-free device to be deployed in remote locations a...

**Overview**: This project focuses on developing a technology-verified carbon insetting scheme for Cranswick to 1) reduce carbon emissions associated with their agricultural supply chain and 2) quantify biodiversity changes. The new scheme will provide a financial incentive for Cranswick's producer base by planting wildflowers and/or flower-rich grasses, ...

**CHALLENGE**: c.85% of South Africa(SA)'s electricity is generated via burning coal, with SA being one of the largest global greenhouse-gas emitters. State-owned Eskom supplies 95% SA's electricity, but power stations are regularly broken/undergoing maintenance, leading to 'loadshedding'. **BIO-ENERGY**(=renewable energy) has a short life cycle with pote...

This project will develop a smart lighting system that dynamically responds to chicken behaviour to improve welfare and productivity. The right lighting sequence in chicken barns is well known to improve FCR and overall productivity. However, farmers are still largely monitoring for problems through manual surveillance, which increases the risk of disease...

The intensification of agriculture has undermined vital pollination services provided by wild insect pollinators (WIPs), resulting in a downward decline in pollinator numbers and significant concerns about the sustainability of food production systems. Current methods to address biodiversity loss and productivity are missing vital information about WIP po...

Strawberries are one of the most commercially important fruit crops in the UK and are good sources of nutrients including vitamin C. Insect pollination is vital to the production of commercial strawberries and is required to ensure a successful and marketable crop. Over or underpollination can lead to low quality and misshapen fruit that is not suitable f...

This project will assess the feasibility of using a novel sound processing approach to enable low-cost, low-bandwidth transmission of sound data using innovative satellite networks to enable biodiversity monitoring across farms. Initially focusing on identification of pollinating insects, the project will develop and assess the novel technique for sound d...

40% of insect species risk extinction, a further 30% endangered (New Scientist 2019), yet few farmers actively monitor or quantify on farm biodiversity, despite it being a critically important measure of ecosystem, landscape, overall biological health of the farm, and key public good. This project will monitor biodiversity 24/7 where three separate remote...

Achieving net-zero carbon objective by 2040 is a priority requiring novel and innovative solutions to modernise the cattle husbandry sector. Although research has developed dietary supplements and medication, these are applied with a blanket approach and don't address individual needs of the animal and farmer. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) targets ind...

Food production systems are under pressure to produce more food from less resources to feed a growing population. UK demand for high quality fruit and vegetables is high, with ~32% increase in demand vs. 2019, driven by health awareness post-lockdowns (EIT Food, 2020). New innovations are required to address existing bottlenecks to production, increase ag...

This 3-month feasibility study will explore how to implement an automated system for pollination services management in SubSaharan Africa. In order to explore this idea we are conducting studies in three countries, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, representing different geographical and economic regions of Africa.The project will allow us to investigate a...