Welsh research project receives funding

According to the Welsh Daily Post, the newly-formed Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, which is based at Aberystwyth and the College of Natural Sciences at Bangor, will receive backing from Welsh assembly Government worth £23.5 million.

The funding will be used to provide facilities and new scientific and management posts at the institute, which will examine practical solutions to climate change, food and fuel security and animal and plant diseases.

Professor Noel Lloyd, Aberystwyth University's vice-chancellor, told the newspaper: "We are assembling one of the largest teams of scientists and support staff working in this field in Europe.”

"They already have an international reputation and this award will strengthen that reputation further" he added.

We are assembling one of the largest teams of scientists and support staff working in this field in Europe

Professor Noel Lloyd

Aberystwyth University

At the upcoming Royal Welsh Show, the Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences will promote ways of using farmland in a sustainable manner.

The institute will showcase ways to grow biofuel crops on grassland farms, as well as using plants such as willow and miscanthus and animal manure to produce a renewable fuel supply.