Beef Improvement Research Programme
What the buyer wrote
Beef production makes a significant contribution to the UK farming economy, with cattle raised for meat production representing nearly12% of the £24,089 million value of gross agricultural output in 2012 . However UK food production, including beef, operates in a global market which faces economic challenges as well as competition for natural resources that are needed to feed a growing global population, whilst protecting the environment and enhancing ecosystem services from agricultural land. The overarching policy background supporting this call for research is framed by the Government’s Foresight Report , The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability, …
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Beef Improvement Research Programme
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 3 Aug 2014
- Work ends
- 31 Dec 2018
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Neil Rowlands was the named contact on this notice.