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Animal and Plant Disease projects


Large Projects

Reducing E coli Risk in Rural Communities (Norval Strachan)

Assessing the Potential Rural Impact of Plant Disease (Peter Mills)

The Governance of Livestock Disease (Graham Medley)

Assessment of Knowledge Sources in Animal Disease Control (Brian Wynne)

Lessons from Dutch Elm Disease in Assessing the Threat from Sudden Oak Death (Clive Potter)

Assessing and Communicating Animal Disease Risks for Countryside Users (Chris Quine)

Managing Food Chain Risks (Richard Shepherd)

Overcoming Market and Technical Obstacles to Alternative Pest Management in Arable Systems (Alastair Bailey)

The Role of Regulation in Developing Biological Alternatives to Pesticides (Wyn Grant)

 

Interdisciplinary Fellowships

Reinventing the wheel?  Farm health planning 1942-2006 (Abigail Woods)

Science Communication on Badgers and TB (Angela Cassidy)


Studentships

Fine-scale habitat use of forests by human visitors: developing an agent-based model of risk of tick challenge (Jennifer Taylor)

Campylobactcriosis: Elucidating the disease burden, risk perception and costs to rural communities and their families (Laura MacRitchie)

Perceptions, risks and costs of food-borne pathogens: Salmonella and Campylobacter (Caroline Millman)

Implications of on-farm anaerobic digestion for organic farming systems (Laura Clements)

Impact of climate change on diseases of oilseed rape on the rural economy (Emily Measures)

 

Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Centre for Rural Economy, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
Tel. 0191 222 6903 Fax: 0191 222 5411 E-mail: relu@ncl.ac.uk