Peter Danks is an agri-environmentalist, with a practical background in agricultural engineering gained through working for two major international suppliers of irrigation and pollution control equipment. Since joining Reading Agricultural Consultants in 1986 he has mainly been concerned with the impact of agriculture on the environment principally through catchment management, livestock related development, waste management, spray irrigation, water supply and soil water matters, latterly working on environmental research projects.He is a Chartered Environmentalist, Director of Reading Agricultural Consultants and Director of RACEnvironment. He has been Chair of the BIAC's Environment Division, Chair of the National Farm Waste Management Register, and a member of the Environment Agency’s Thames Regional Environmental Policy Advisory Committee. For 17 years until 2007 he was an elected Trustee and member of the Board of Management of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. With colleagues and as a part of multi-disciplinary teams, he has undertaken research for the Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, UKWIR and Water UK, using catchment scale and in-depth studies to consider the impact of pesticide and fertiliser use on water quality and the measures necessary to drive lasting change the benefits of which are resilient to climate change. He has lead projects to identify the flow of materials and resources in the UK pig and poultry supply chains.Specialties: Peter’s main interests are in the resource efficiency of livestock farming and the peaceful coexistence of livestock units and country dwellers at a time of rapid change in the dairy, pig and poultry sectors that is leading to larger livestock units to take advantage of economies of scale.