The full speaker line-up for LandAlive, a major new regenerative farming conference, has just been released and includes expert talks on climate-friendly farming from leading practitioners, advisors, soil specialists, policy makers, wildlife organisations and representatives from across the food supply chain.
LandAlive is a new event and takes place at the Bath & West Showground, Somerset, on the 22nd and 23rd November.
The first day will focus on how to farm profitably whilst reducing inputs and delivering ‘public goods’, the second on making healthy food affordable
Graham Harvey, LandAlive Programme Director, says, “We’ve got the best of regenerative farming expertise in one place with content tailored to the particular needs and interests of farmers in the South West, but drawing in the country’s top speakers and farmer-pioneers. We’ll be looking at the nuts and bolts of regenerative farming practice, but also covering what’s new in soil science, technology, changing supply chain dynamics and, of course, the shifting subsidy landscape.”
He continues, “It’s an amazing opportunity for farmers to get up-to-speed on the huge changes going on in farming. Paying attention to soil quality, rebuilding biodiversity and reducing dependence on chemical inputs is very much in the mainstream now. Given the bottom-line cost of inputs, and rising consumer demand for planet-friendly, gut-friendly food, it’s simply good business sense to look at more nature-based solutions.”
Over twenty speakers are lined up with programme highlights including;
- How to ‘weatherproof’ farms going forward, with farm advisor Niels Corfield
- Regenerative farmer Matt Chatfield discusses the need for suppliers of nutrient-dense foods to build relationships with everyone in their food chain
- Rotahmsted professor Andy Neal will outline the importance of pore-space connectivity in making soils productive;
- Martin Lines, CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network and farming consultant Tim Williams (Earth Farmer) will show how biodiversity and profitable farming belong together
- Sue Pritchard, Chief Executive of the Food and Farming Commission will be part of a focus on how policy needs to shift to support farmers better
- DEFRA’s Helen Coates, will close the conference with developments in farming and food policy reform at both a national and regional level
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