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Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England (2019)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Seymour, S., & Wilson, P. (2020). Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England. Energy Research and Social Science, 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101387

Outside of Denmark, straw-based bioenergy has seen uneven success across Europe. In the UK, straw-based bioenergy has been positioned as making a potentially important contribution to the UK government's energy and environmental objectives. However,... Read More about Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England.

NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing (2019)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Hartley, S., & Pearce, W. (2019). NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing. Agriculture and Human Values, 36(4), 779–791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09956-9

Plant genome editing has the potential to become another chapter in the intractable debate that has dogged agricultural biotechnology. In 2016, 107 Nobel Laureates accused Greenpeace of emotional and dogmatic campaigning against agricultural biotechn... Read More about NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing.

Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming? (2019)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2019). Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?. Palgrave Communications, 5, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0220-2

This paper interrogates the claim that antimicrobial resistant infections are rarely encountered in animal agriculture. This has been widely reiterated by a range of academic, policy and industry stakeholders in the UK. Further support comes from the... Read More about Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?.

Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press (2016)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2016). Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press. Journal of Rural Studies, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.003

Despite links to animal disease governance, food and biosecurity, rural studies has neglected consideration of how actors make sense of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the implications for animal and human health. As antimicrobial re... Read More about Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press.