What we need now is action to prevent the current farm-scale trials and test sites contaminating crops and honey.

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Although the debate ends in July, the results of the farm-scale trials of four crops proposed for Britain, carried out over the last four years, are not due to be known until September.

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Earlier this year, the firm won permission for a similarly large-scale fish farm on Loch Torridon in the north-west Highlands.

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The Internet is making it easier for small-scale African entrepreneurs to sell farm goods in Europe.

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It will increase the amount of energy generated from offshore wind in the UK by one third to 1, 314MW. Opened in September, the Thanet wind-farm was built by the Swedish Vattenfall energy company, and increases the number of large-scale offshore British turbines to 436, to be compared with 2, 640 based on land.

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The project, part-funded by the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, saw a full-scale 44m prototype turbine blade fitted at a wind farm in Norfolk.

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The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.

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While low flow fixtures, rainfall collection, and solar panels help to conserve water and energy, the desalination plant and wind farm that were part of the original plan are the kinds of large-scale facilities that would make this community truly stand out as a worldwide front-runner in sustainability.

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As well as the small-scale schemes, Dumfries and Galloway Council is also being consulted on plans for a major wind farm development at Kilgallioch in Wigtownshire.

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