IFM Literature Database

Search the LEAF Integrated Farm Management database for summaries and abstracts of key IFM research projects, conference notes, books, journals, farming press and a host of other sources.  You can search by author, title, key words, browse alphabetically or by DEFRA's sustainable indicators.

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1 - Agricultural assets and liabilities
2 - Age of farmers
3 - Percentage of holdings that are tenanted
4 - EU Producer Support Estimate (PSE)
5 - Payments to farmers for agri-environment purposes
6 - Total income from farming
7 - Average earnings of agricultural workers
8 - Agricultural productivity
9 - Agricultural employment
10 - Adoption of farm management systems
11 - Area converted to organic farming
12 - Knowledge of Codes of Good Agricultural Practice
13 - Pesticides in rivers
14 - Pesticides in groundwater
15 - Quantity of pesticide active ingredients used
16 - Spray area treated with pesticides
17 - Pesticide residues in food
18 - Nitrate and phosphorus losses from agriculture
19 - Phosphorus levels of agricultural topsoils
20 - Manure management
21 - Ammonia emissions from agriculture
22 - Emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture
23 - Direct energy consumption by farms
24 - Trends in indirect energy inputs to agriculture
25 - Use of water for irrigation
26 - Organic matter content of agricultural topsoils
27 - Accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural topsoils
28 - Area of agricultural land
29 - Change in land use from agriculture to hard development
30 - Planting of non-food crops
31 - Area of agricultural land under commitment to environmental conservation
32 - Characteristic features of farmland
33 - Area of cereal field margins under environmental management
34 - Area of semi-natural grassland
35 - Populations of key farmland birds