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Jonathan Leake

Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions, University of Sheffield

Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions, University of Sheffield Jonathan has interests in sustainable agriculture, especially focused on sustainable management of soils and soil resources, regenerative agriculture and collaborative research between farmers and academic researchers. He has interests in sustainable urban food production. He teaches sustainable agriculture at the University of Sheffield, and has been conducting long-term trials of effects of reintroducing leys into arable rotations to regenerate soil health via the recovery of key functional groups of soil organisms. He has a PhD in Plant-Soil Interactions and has published over 130 papers, and supervised / co-supervised more than 20 PhD students.