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UK Expert Committee on Forest Science appointment for Prof Maria Nijnik

"I’m happy to represent a link among forest and land use research institutes in the UK and beyond, notably the James Hutton Institute, and promote the complementarity of activities for multiplying the scientific results and their impacts" Professor Maria Nijnik, a senior scientist at the James Hutton Institute’s Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences department, has been appointed a member of the UK Expert Committee on Forest Science. The Committee was established by the Board of Forestry Commissioners to provide independent, expert advice and assurance on the quality of science and

One Health – World One Health Congress

SEFARI delivers the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021 on agriculture, environment, food and land, providing direct and tangible benefits across diverse issues. We are delighted to be supporting the World One Health Congress (#WOHC2020) and recognise how interconnected humans, plants, animals and our environment are and the importance of a One Health approach. SEFARI research spans a number of areas relevant for One Health, including the evaluation of livestock health; animal disease epidemiology; food safety; disease threats in the environment and integrated

PRESS RELEASE: Research consortium receives funding for Smart Sheep project

A UK research consortium has been awarded funding from the government’s Transforming Food Production Challenge Fund through Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency to develop new tools to encourage the adoption of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies in UK sheep flocks.

One Health - What do Scots want for the future of food and farming?

Professor Lee Innes (Director of Communication at Moredun Research Institute) discussing "What do Scots want for the future of food and farming".

One Health - Approaches to emergent infections under climate change and threats to biodiversity

Professor Rowland Kao (Chair of Veterinary Epidemiology and Data Science at the University of Edinburgh) discussing One Health approaches to emergent infections under climate change and threats to biodiversity.

One Health - Generation Alpha and One Health

Professor Liz Grant (Director, Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh) Generation Alpha: what skills, training and technology will they need to equip them for One Health.

One Health - What is One Health?

Professor Lisa Boden (Chair of Population Medicine and Veterinary Health Policy, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security at the University of Edinburgh) Introducing the concept of One Health: how the health of people, animals and the environment interconnect.

Antimicrobial resistance: bringing Scottish expertise together to find the solutions

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global, immediate and ongoing concern to human health. AMR occurs when microbes become resistant to clinical or veterinary drugs that are used to treat disease, and this has major consequences on how microbial diseases are managed and therefore how antimicrobial compounds are used. AMR and antimicrobial usage (AMU) affects different aspects of our lives and environment, and this is reflected in ongoing research. Examples of the breadth of our work includes research on estimating the levels of resistance in sheep, surveillance of AMR genes in Scottish soils