Martin Collison, BSc (Hons) Agriculture Wye College, FRSA, FCIEA, FRAgS, FRASE, MSAg
Director Collison and Associates Limited
Visiting Professor in AgriFood Systems at the Lincoln Institute for AgriFood Technology (LIAT)
Martin has been an agrifood consultant since 2000, an academic since 1987 and is a Visiting Professor in Agri-Food Systems at LIAT. He has also been a partner/company director of businesses in arable, livestock (sheep), horticulture, consultancy, import and export. Martin helped develop the UK Strategy for Agricultural Technologies and was on evaluation teams reviewing the AgTech Catalyst, Transforming Food Production, Farming Innovation, Biomass Feedstock Innovation and DEFRA small grant programmes. He has also worked on reviews for the EU Commission of the European Innovation Partnership for Agriculture (EIP Agri), short food chains, water and agriculture, food exports and the EU Code of Conduct for the Food Chain. Martin wrote two successful bids for H2020 projects in the livestock sector: 4D4F focused on use of digital tools to improve animal husbandry; DISARM focused on antibiotic reduction.
Martin has supported Greater Lincolnshire LEP as agri-food advisor since 2013 and developed the UK Food Valley programme. He also chairs the Norfolk and Suffolk AgriFood Industry Council. He has also been on the national CLA Agriculture and Land Use Committee for 12 years.
In the last 5 years he has written agrifood growth plans for Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, Midlands Engine, Cornwall, Great South West, Gloucestershire and the NFU South East and London region, covering over 50% of national agri-food production.
