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Discover the difficulties faced when storms hit & what the extent to how flooding can affect people. Find out the advantages of good soil management.

For the third consecutive year LRA is contributing to a training course in Agricultural Land Classification (ALC). The classification system, designed to protect the highest quality farmland from irreversible loss to development

Land Research Associates have been appointed by Maidstone Borough Council to undertake agricultural land classification mapping of up to 65 sites put forward by land owners and developers to help meet the increased need for housing in the district.

Healthy soils are the foundation for food, fuel, fibre and even medicine said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)as it kicked off 2015 the International Year of Soils on the first-ever World Soil Day on December 5th.Soils are…

The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is a voluntary initiative created to improve governance of the limited soil resources of the planet to ensure delivery of healthy and productive soils for the future. The area of fertile soil for food production is…

A group of soils and geo-conservation experts, recently joined by LRA director Malcolm Reeve, is working together to raise the general profile of soils as a key part of Earth Science. The aim is to encourage local geo-conservation groups and soil…

Land Research Associates has recently been helping Schlumberger Water Services with the soil geochemical study for a proposed iron-ore mine in south-east Liberia. The Putu iron ore project is part of a 425 km² exploration tenement majority-owned by…