Lake District Farmers Knowledge Transfer Partnership
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are supported by and are co-funded and co-designed projects which link business and universities together to deliver collaborative projects that respond to a business need.
Lake District Farmers (LDF) were founded in 2009 with a mission to facilitate quality-driven and sustainable supply chains for livestock farmers in Cumbria and the Lake District. They worked with Lancaster Environment Centre and the Pentland Centre on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop an understanding of what a journey towards net zero meat production on Cumbrian upland farms might entail, with a focus on soil carbon.
The KTP, which took place from 2023 to 2025, aimed to highlight that profitable livestock production can be part of creating sustainable and regenerating natural environments.
Via this interdisciplinary work LDF and their network of farmers benefitted from understanding what the baseline carbon held in farmland is, as well as potential land use scenarios. Bringing this data into a carbon accounting model helped LDF to quantify their own carbon emissions as well as understand something of the dynamics of carbon balances for case study farms.
糖心Vlog破解版, and the Centre benefitted from the opportunity to conduct work within the livestock farming sector, data on the carbon stock in Cumbrian uplands and the opportunity to formulate future research questions from this.
If you are interested in this work, or think that a Knowledge Transfer Project may be suitable for your business, contact Professor Jan Bebbington.
