Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming systems.
is an ambitious five-year research programme supporting the UK’s transition towards domestic food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature. The programme is bringing together a community of researchers and farmers to evaluate innovative farming methods and to define practical pathways to achieving “net zero plus� arable and livestock farm systems.
Achieving net zero plus agriculture requires cross-disciplinary research and cross-sector collaboration. AgZero+ is being delivered by experts from leading research institutes in partnership with industry, governments, and charities.
Through this approach AgZero+ is aiming to:
- Define pathways to achieving net zero plus arable and livestock farm systems, which minimize negative trade-offs between agricultural productivity and the environment.
- Create a network of study farms and field-scale to national data, models and tools which will enable the transition to net zero plus agriculture.
- Provide the science community with an advanced modelling framework to define pathways to achieving net zero, plus arable and livestock farm systems that minimize trade-offs with production and the environment.
- Utilize innovative data science to supply real-time, high-quality data, models, and tools to enable the transition to net zero plus agriculture.
- Involve agri-environmental research to address the major societal challenges of net-zero food production and reversing biodiversity declines.
