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Gareth Edwards-Jones
Researcher at Bangor University
Publications - 124
Citations - 9450
Gareth Edwards-Jones is an academic researcher from Bangor University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Fisheries management. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 124 publications receiving 8553 citations. Previous affiliations of Gareth Edwards-Jones include UPRRP College of Natural Sciences & World Bank.
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Biochar-mediated changes in soil quality and plant growth in a three year field trial
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the multi-year impact of biochar on crop performance and soil quality with specific emphasis on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling over a 3 y period.
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Short-term biochar-induced increase in soil CO2 release is both biotically and abiotically mediated
Davey L. Jones,Daniel Murphy,Mohamed Khalid,Waqar Ahmad,Gareth Edwards-Jones,Thomas H. DeLuca +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the mechanistic basis of soil respiration response to biochar and showed that biochar repressed native organic matter (SOM) breakdown, counteracting the release of CO2 from the biochar.
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The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture
Jules Pretty,William J. Sutherland,Jacqueline Anne Ashby,Jill S. Auburn,David C. Baulcombe,Michael J. Bell,Jeffrey Bentley,Sam Bickersteth,Katrina Brown,Jacob Burke,Hugh Campbell,Kevin Chen,Eve Crowley,I. R. Crute,Dirk A. E. Dobbelaere,Gareth Edwards-Jones,F. R. Funes-Monzote,H. Charles J. Godfray,Michel Griffon,Phrek Gypmantisiri,Lawrence Haddad,Siosiua Halavatau,H. R. Herren,Mark Holderness,Anne-Marie Izac,Monty Jones,Parviz Koohafkan,Rattan Lal,Tim Lang,Jeffrey A. McNeely,Alexander Mueller,Nicholas Nisbett,Andrew Noble,Prabhu Pingali,Yvonne M. Pinto,Rudy Rabbinge,N. H. Ravindranath,Agnes C. Rola,Niels Röling,Colin Sage,William H. Settle,J M Sha,Luo Shiming,Tony Simons,Pete Smith,Kenneth Strzepeck,Harry Swaine,Eugene Terry,Thomas P. Tomich,Camilla Toulmin,Eduardo Trigo,Stephen Twomlow,Jan Kees Vis,Jeremy D. Wilson,Sarah Pilgrim +54 more
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.
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The role of attitudes and objectives in farmer decision making: Business and environmentally-oriented behaviour in Scotland
Joyce Willock,Ian J. Deary,Gareth Edwards-Jones,Gavin J. Gibson,M. J. McGregor,Alistair Sutherland,J. Barry Dent,Oliver Morgan,Robert Grieve +8 more
Abstract: Despite considerable effort to understand and represent decision making by farmers, there has been little attempt to integrate socio-economic, psychological and farming variables within a comprehensive framework. This paper attempts to do this in the context of two types of farming behaviour - business and environmental -for a sample of over 200 Scottish farmers. Using variables covering their attitudes, objectives and behaviours relevant to many aspects of farming, we proposed mediating variables models of business-oriented and environmentally-oriented farming behaviours. Structural equation modelling was used to test the adequacy of the proposed models. The results of the study emphasise the importance of psychological factors in the decision making of farmers.
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Testing the assertion that ‘local food is best’: the challenges of an evidence-based approach
Gareth Edwards-Jones,Llorenç Milà i Canals,Natalia Hounsome,Mónica Truninger,Georgia R. Koerber,Barry Hounsome,Paul C. Cross,Elizabeth H. York,Almudena Hospido,Katharina Plassmann,Ian Harris,Rhiannon Tudor Edwards,Graham Day,A. Deri Tomos,Sarah J Cowell,David L. Jones +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conclude that food miles are a poor indicator of the environmental and ethical impacts of food production, and that only through combining spatially explicit life cycle assessment with analysis of social issues can the benefits of local food be assessed.