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OVERVIEW Energy policymakers struggle to reconcile the competing claims of climate change, cost and security of supply, writes Mike Scott Energy has always been central to economic success at home and around the world. For many years, the main issue... Read more
ENERGY BILL Policy reforms to help bring about a low-carbon economy are eagerly awaited, but investors want a 2030 decarbonisation target, as Flemmich Webb reports British energy policy is once more on the move. In 2006, the then Labour government... Read more
NUCLEAR ENERGY The wheels could be falling off the UK’s plans to build 16 gigawatts of new nuclear generation capacity by 2025 and, as Tim Probert discovers, the country’s best hope for a nuclear future may now lie in East... Read more
OVERVIEW With nine billion or more people to feed by 2050 in a resource-constrained world, the success of the agriculture sector is crucial to us all, writes Mike Scott For decades agriculture has been a generally low-profile business and the... Read more
MEGATRENDS From climate change to population growth, the pressures on food producers are intensifying. Mike Scott reports Growing food used to be a far simpler proposition. Subject to the vagaries of the weather, the farmer grew his crop and took... Read more
ANALYTIC FARMING Precision agriculture is helping farmers get the most from their land, writes Jim McClelland “The key statistic is that we are producing 260 per cent more food with 2 per cent less inputs versus 20 years ago,” declares... Read more