Sarah Pilgrim

TL;DR: The UK Government's Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures project as mentioned in this paper aims to improve dialogue and understanding between agricultural research and policy by identifying the 100 most important questions for global agriculture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the main drivers of demand for food and demand for liquid transport fuels are reviewed, and the controversies surrounding bio fuels arising from food-price spikes, the demand for land, and consequent direct and indirect land-use change.

TL;DR: It is suggested that any hope for saving biological diversity is predicated on a concomitant effort to appreciate and protect cultural diversity, and that future policy responses should target both biological and cultural diversity in a combined approach to conservation.

TL;DR: A strong inverse correlation between ecological knowledge and income levels in and among India, Indonesia, and the U.K. is shown, the first to consider the association between economic growth and social capacity to manage the environment.

TL;DR: It was found that UK residents with the highest levels of ecoliteracy visited the countryside frequently, lived and grew up in rural areas, and acquired their knowledge from informal word-of-mouth sources, such as parents and friends, rather than television and schooling.