Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
United States Department of Agriculture - Summaries of Cotton and Cottonseed Research
Date: 1962Reference: JDW/2/17/7Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Annual Reviews - A(?), Lotte
Date: 1944-1983Reference: PP/MLV/C/1/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
Understanding the links between agriculture and health / edited by Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel.
Date: 2006- Archives and manuscripts
The King's Fund UK Maternity Enquiry into the Safety of Maternity Services in the UK - call for evidence: NCT Response
Date: c.2006Reference: SA/NCT/E/4/11Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: Nottingham, Agricultural Research Council and Bangor (University of Nottingham School of Agriculture) - closed material
Date: 1972-1975Reference: PP/AMO/B/1/12aPart of: Amoroso, Professor Emmanuel Ciprian CBE, FRCP, FRS (1901-1982)