James Clarke Email & Phone Number

ADAS is the UK's largest independent provider of agricultural and environmental consultancy working across the UK and internationally. ADAS exists to help secure our food and enhance the environment. Our great strength is our breadth and depth of expertise spanning both the agricultural and environmental sectors. ADAS are a recognised leader in delivering research and consultancy in the agricultural, environmental and rural sectors. www.adas.co.uk. Since joining forces with RSK (www.rsk.co.uk) together we help our clients in three major areas: food, energy and environment.As Research Director I develop and co-ordinate business opportunities within ADAS and the RSK Group through maintaining a high profile for ADAS externally and internally, especially in areas of farming and science. This includes providing a leadership and mentoring role for staff within ADAS, and where appropriate wider RSK Group, to enable them to develop their technical, business and managerial skills and industry profiles to improve the performance of their business areas.I am a specialist in all aspects of crop production, especially sustainable agriculture, integrated farming and impacts of arable farming on the environment. My areas of of specialism and international reputation include farming systems, general agronomy, weed control, herbicide resistance and set-aside. I am co-leading the Agricultural Systems technical advisory group in the Land Use for Zet Zero Hub. I have a strategic role in projects on assessing impacts of losses of crop protection options, assessing a sustainability including carbon footprints, farmland biodiversity, developing a Weed Management Support System for winter wheat, exploiting grass-weed ecology to reduce cultivation costs, managing herbicide resistance.Chair (from 1 January 2024) of UK Expert Committee on Pesticides (ECP) of which also an independent member, and deputy chair, as a farming systems specialist (2021-2023). I was Chair of Pesticides Forum (and chair of Indicators group) 2001-2002 and 2007-2015. I am Chair of the Weed Resistance Action Group (see https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12757011/ and https://ahdb.org.uk/wrag). Member of RSPB Lowland Farm Advisory Group. Expert in knowledge transfer and author of many publications.Views expressed are my own and not those of my employer or other organisations I am involved with.

Listed skills include Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Crop Protection, and 25 others.

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  Research Director

  Adas

  Nov 2021 - Present - Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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  University Of Reading

  Agriculture