More and more people outside and inside academic specialisms are becoming aware of the pressing need to halt dramatic losses in biodiversity worldwide.
The EU H2020 project, FRAMEwork is mounting an ambitious response to these critical problems.
The project will create a Biodiversity Sensitive Farming System that will encourage and enable farmers to conserve biodiversity, promote a rebalancing of agriculture in a way
that capitalises on the value of native biodiversity, and
improve the capacity of farming to deliver food and
nutritional security in the face of climate change, disease pandemics and other pressures on the system.
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Mark Young
James Hutton Institute
Information technologist/plant scientist with expertise in database/software development, systems modelling and data mining.
Mr Young has a Higher National Diploma in Biology, a MSc in Environmental Physiology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology. He has 30 years’ experience in a research environment including large scale field experimentation, GIS, farm surveys. He provides database development and curation for projects in Agroecology e.g. Farmscale Evaluation of GM Herbicide Tolerant Crops, EU projects including FP6 SIGMEA, FP6 Legume Futures, FP7 PURE and FP7 AMIGA. He has expertise in data mining (Genstat, R, Weka, DeXi, MapInfo, ArcGIS) and has developed a systems model for energy capture and flows of nitrogen and carbon in arable.