Francis Rayns

Assistant Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Honorary CAFS Associate, Faculty of Business & Law

Emailab5438@coventry.ac.uk

821 Citations
7 h-Index

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Research Interests

Sustainable management of soil fertility, particularly concerning the use of green manure crops and the utilisation of waste materials in the form of soil amendments such as compost, anaerobic digestate and biochar for field applications and in growing media. I am also interested in intercropping, the use of heritage vegetable varieties (particularly legumes) and citizen science as a method for improving agricultural practice.

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Projects 2018 2022

1 Active

Pathways to phase-out contentious inputs from organic agriculture in Europe

Schmutz, U., Burbi, S., Conroy, J., Evans, A. & Rayns, F.

1/05/18 → 30/04/22

Project: Research

Research Output 1987 2018

821 Citations
7 h-Index
11 Article
3 Other report
3 Conference proceeding
2 Commissioned report
5 More
- 2 Chapter
- 1 Book
- 1 Abstract
- 1 Paper

Organic-PLUS project: Pathways to phase-out contentious inputs from organic agriculture in Europe – Research overview and preliminary results

Schmutz, U., Rayns, F., Burbi, S., Evans, A., Zikeli, S., Oudshoorn, F., Katsoulas, N., Andrivon, D., De Marchi, M., Righi, F., Løes, A-K., Malińska, K., Grøn Sørensen, C. & Antón, A., Nov 2018.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

Open Access

organic production

fertilizers

horticulture

peat

plastics

Phasing out contentious inputs in organic and non-organic horticulture – Organic-PLUS.

Schmutz, U., Rayns, F., Evans, A., Nikolaos Katsoulas, N., Løes, A-K., De Marchi, M. & Grøn Sørensen, C., 12 Aug 2018, (Submitted) In : Acta Horticulturae. (In-Press), p. (In-Press) 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

horticulture

peat

fertilizers

plastics

public speaking