Our science programmes
The Food and Environment Research Agency has organized its science teams broadly around the thematic science areas required by its client base. This means that high levels of specialism can be maintained whilst at the same time, by utilizing a matrix structure, expertise can be brought together to deliver multi disciplinary projects. Fera's science programmes and the expertise they contain are outlined here.
| Wildlife management | Wildlife and emerging diseases | |
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The programme provides research, advisory and operational services in relation to diseases of wildlife, livestock and zoonotic infections of humans. It contributes to disease control by developing effective wildlife management options and by helping implement these. |
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| Evidence and analysis | Plant pest and disease | |
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The evidence and analysis programme houses analytical expertise in risk assessment and probabilistic modeling, experimental design, statistics and informatics. The Programme is home to national GM Inspectorate, international plant health consultancy and pest risk assessment. It also includes teams expert in sustainable land use, agri-environment schemes, non-food crops and pesticide usage surveys. |
This programme is focused on the sciences relating to plant pest and disease identification and control. The programme's research work supports both the development of plant health policy and Fera's Plant Health and Seeds Inspectors. Vital to both is the drive to develop faster and more accurate frontline in-the-field diagnosis techniques. |
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