应将农粮研究委员会和自然环境研究委员会合并建立一个自然资源研究委员会,以便“对土地和水的利用以及人类对自然环境的影响问题采取更为综合性的态度”。由于农业与自然环境的划分越来越具有人为性质,所以应使这些领域的研究更紧密地结合起来。两者的任务之间的不恰当的划分——如农作物和林木——应该取消。这是上议院科学技术研究委员会提出的建议,该委员会正在对农业与粮食研究问题进行 The Committee on Agronomy should be merged with the Natural Environment Research Council to establish a Natural Resources Research Council to “take a more holistic approach to land and water use and the human impact on the natural environment.” As the division of agriculture and the natural environment becomes more and more anthropogenic, research in these fields should be more closely integrated. Inadequate division of tasks between the two - such as crops and trees - should be eliminated. This is a suggestion made by the Lords Science and Technology Research Council, which is working on agricultural and food research issues