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Innovation Pack: 27 Experiments for Defra

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A browsable library of 27 research-led ideas for making the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs more connected, intelligent, and adaptive.

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The library organizes 27 experiments across service, policy, operations, and data concerns, with filters for audience, capability, AI involvement, and delivery horizon. Its cards move from evidence infrastructure—such as a continuously improving graph of people, places, interventions, and outcomes—to farmer-facing ideas including Outcome Explorer and Proactive Funding. The site explicitly labels these as opportunity hypotheses rather than committed solutions, while its Now, Next, Later, and DREAM BIG markers distinguish present priorities from more speculative directions.

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