OUR SCIENCE - MAKING THE DIFFERENCE

We combine leading expertise, outstanding facilities and strategic partnerships to meet agricultural challenges with wide impact.

SCIENCE STRATEGY

Building on our unique ability to work across different scales and disciplines, we aim to deliver expertise, better data, better practices and new technologies to improve performance, resilience and value. We aim to raise the productivity of crop and livestock systems, tackle weed, disease and insect resistance to agrochemicals, improve soil health, enhance natural capital, reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint, and add novel nutritional and bioeconomical value to crops and other products.

At the heart of our strategy lies the recognition that our core purpose is to bring together global science, fresh thinking and innovation for lasting benefits worldwide.

READ OUR 2017-2022 SCIENCE STRATEGY

The new strategy for 2023-2028 is currently in preparation.

SCIENCE PORTFOLIOS

SUPERIOR CROPS

We explore new ways for improving the cultivation, yield, resource efficiency, resilience, nutritional and industrial value of crops.

SECURING PRODUCTIVITY

We develop smarter solutions for ensuring crop health in modern agriculture.

FUTURE AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMS

We close gaps in productivity and efficiency, and design the next generation of arable and grassland-livestock systems.

NATIONAL bioscience research infrastructures

Supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Rothamsted hosts three internationally unique experimental facilities for strategic research on the performance and improvement of agro-ecosystems. These NBRIs play a vital role in our own research, and they are also openly available to researchers in the UK and worldwide, as are our samples and data.

SCIENTIFIC LIFE FOR STUDENTS

We have a long history of successful doctoral training and a diverse portfolio of exciting projects awaiting new students. Our students gain from working in a genuinely dynamic and stimulating environment, which is further enriched by our collaborations with many universities and institutes, in the UK and abroad.

OUR SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS

Our science departments are structured to encourage interaction and to provide support for areas of expertise and personal development.

OUR SCIENTISTS

Our scientists are the lifeblood of our organisation. We employ world leading experts and we are continually investing in recruitment, professional development and facilities that provide a dynamic cutting-edge place to work.

PUBLICATIONS

You can access and share our knowledge via a complete list of the institute's publications, with links to their open access details.

FEATURED PUBLICATION

Mass seasonal bioflows of high-flying insect migrants

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