Dr Matthew Jordon

Dr Matthew Jordan

I am interested in the potential to enhance natural capital stocks on UK farmland to improve the sustainability of ruminant livestock production. My research focuses on incorporating trees into sheep and cattle farming systems and regenerative agriculture practices that increase soil carbon whilst continuing food production.

Selected Publications

Matthew W Jordon, Kathy J Willis, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Gillian Petrokofsky, Rotational grazing and multispecies herbal leys increase productivity in temperate pastoral systems–A meta-analysis, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 337 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108075

Matthew W Jordon, Kathy J Willis, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Neal R Haddaway, Pete Smith, Gillian Petrokofsky, Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis, Environmental Research Letters, 17(9) 2022. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8609

Matthew W Jordon, Pete Smith, Peter R Long, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Gillian Petrokofsky, Kathy J Willis, Can Regenerative Agriculture increase national soil carbon stocks? Simulated country-scale adoption of reduced tillage, cover cropping, and ley-arable integration using RothC, Science of The Total Environment, 825 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153955

Jordon, MW, Willis, KJ, Harvey, WJ, Petrokofsky, L, Petrokofsky, G (2020) Implications of Temperate Agroforestry on Sheep and Cattle Productivity, Environmental Impacts and Enterprise Economics. A Systematic Evidence Map. Forests 11(12). DOI:10.3390/f11121321