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TETRAPARTITE 2007  Defra’s Strategy Refresh Reorientation of Agricultural Research New programmes for sustainable farming and food Agriculture and climate change Water quality and use Sustainable farming systems and biodiversity Efficient food chain Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture Quantification Ammonia inventories Future patterns and spatial distribution Nitrification to N2O Mitigation Agro forestry Animal nutrition Manure management Impacts of ammonia mitigation on other pollutants Farmland Biodiversity Recovery of Cirl Bunting populations The UK bio-renewables industry has expanded, e.g. Overall land area in England for main non-food crops grown is up by 75% to 210,000ha (2003-5) Number of farms in England growing non-food crops up 20% to 5,120 (2003-05) Future strategy priorities should focus on 4 sectors: Bioenergy (biomass and biofuels) Plant-based pharmaceuticals Renewable construction materials Renewable chemicals (inc. monomers, polymers, oils) Defra funded research on renewables - examples: Using natural fibres to develop thermoplastic biocomposites (for car components) (￡545k) Developing Artemisia as an alternative UK industrial crop for anti-malarial medication (￡500k) Developing biodegradable foams based on wheat flour (￡390k) Defra’s Earth Observation Strategy Monitoring agri-environment schemes Suffolk Avian Influenza Outbreak H5N1 high pathogenicity AI outbreak in poultry in Suffolk (England, February 2007) Genetic sequencing of the virus revealed a high level of match with H5N1 outbreaks in geese in Hungary Epidemiological investigations ruled out a range of hypotheses for the source of infection, including migratory or resident wild birds Epidemiological Report concludes: The infection was most likely introduced to Britain via the importation of turkey meat from Hungary. Such meat could have originated from a sub-clinically infected turkey flock in Hungary, which had been infected from a wild bird