Research into agricultural systems and practices ranging from the science of plant and animal production to rural policy and decision-making; with a focus on alternative crops, food and nutrition, farmer health, local knowledge and rural development. **Research Areas** Agricultural Systems with specialisations in: - Sustainable Development - Agricultural Ecology - Trade-offs between output of land and the needs of local people - Relationship between systems of food production and ecology of plants and animals - Farm, forest and environmental valuation - Accounting and Appraisal - Physiology and agronomy of temperate and tropical cereals, root crops and oilseeds - Peri-urban farming systems