Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

Guide outlining the three pillars to a successful conservation approach; created to support a 'Conservation of Farmland Birds' workshop held at Peppering Farm in Sussex.

Collaborative project between Agricology, GWCT and the Duke of Norfolk’s Peppering Farm in West Sussex, which aimed to demonstrate that food production and conservation can successfully co-exist, and it is possible to reverse species decline; particularly when farmers consider the needs of wildlife and adjust their farming methods accordingly.

Agricology is delighted to offer a tour of Peppering Farm - for farmers and farm advisors in the county of Sussex - to explore the three pillars of successful farmland bird conservation: Habitat, Food Source, and Predation Control.

This 'Farming the Future' A Team Foundation - funded project aims to promote agroforestry as a way of farmers and landowners simultaneously and sustainably growing food, transitioning into the new ELM Scheme and contributing to ‘public goods.’ It showcases farms and initiatives across the UK successfully balancing these objectives to share knowledge and evidence of the value of agroforestry...

In 1992 I started my career as a newly fledged post-doc working on the Integrated Farming Systems project and so have been intrigued to see the rising interest in regenerative agriculture. But what is it, and is it any different to integrated farming that has been promoted by organisations such as LEAF (Linking Environment and […]

A huge range of rural organisations have got together to organise a series of Zoom webinars for everyone involved in land management, which we, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), are excited to be part of! For anyone involved in farmer-led landscape scale conservation, this affords an opportunity to match up group with ideas, […]

Dr Alastair Leake (Director of Policy & the Allerton Project for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) talks about why it’s important to consider using unproductive farm land to sow a winter mix of bird food. He stresses the importance in relation to helping the farmland bird index to recover, and gives a little advice […]

Dr Alastair Leake (Director of Policy & the Allerton Project for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) discusses why they are trialling taking an arable field out of crop production and have sown it with mixed species leys (filmed during September 2019). He explains they’re growing a traditional grass and clover mix alongside a mix […]

A case study focusing on Douglas Christie, a farmer in Scotland, who has been experimenting with direct drilling and growing cover and companion crops in his quest to reduce inputs and improve soil health and biodiversity.

This year will be the first that neonicotinoid seed dressings will no longer be routinely applied to cereal crops following their ban last year. This no doubt will be making many farmers rather nervous and reaching for a few cans of pyrethroid. Unfortunately, resistance to these products by the aphids is on the increase and […]

We’re all set for another year at Groundswell and very excited to be hosting the Agricology Discussion Tent this summer. We have a strong line-up of informal sessions across both days, sharing knowledge and innovative insights into agroecology in practice from farmers and researchers. Come and find us in the Discussion Tent and be part […]

This project investigated the viability of transferring agroecological practices more widely across UK agriculture. Agroecological techniques are not exclusive to organic systems and are increasingly being applied by progressive farmers in the non-organic sector...