The world’s first “climate positive” gin has been created by UK scientists — using the humble garden pea. Five years of research at Abertay University and the James Hutton Institute in Scotland, in collaboration with Arbikie Distillery, has culminated in the release of new gin, Nàdar.
In the conference on Protected Cultivation in Mild Winter Climates, Georgia Ntatsi, Leader of WP2 presented the early findings of TRUE in a diverse audience working mostly on protected cultivations.
REDEA Ltd. held her third annual agricultural conference "Knowledge Management in Agriculture" as part of the TRUE project on 26th of January 2018. The conference highlighted the importance of legumes in promotion of sustainable food production and food safety, both for human consumption and forage legumes for livestock.
“You cannot grow soybean in Scotland”, was the advice recieved by Scottish researchers. Without evidence to support the conclusion, and like TRUE researchers we engaged optimistic seed suppliers to acquire the most suitable genotype. Driven by our interest in elite-rhizobia and -arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculum, we established a plot scale trial.