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Nuffield Farming Scholar: How could farmed seaweed support UK arable production?

As a 2025 Nuffield Farming Scholar, Mollie Gupta has travelled around the world to investigate what is needed to move British seaweed farming from an emerging industry to commercial scale

Ashleigh Ellwood
Head of Arable
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Nuffield Farming Scholar: How could farmed seaweed support UK arable production?

As Senior Programme manager at World Wide Fund for Nature UK (WWF-UK), Mollie Gupta has spent the past year asking a deceptively simple question: How can the UK scale its seaweed production? It is the...

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