ORFC 2025 9 – 10 Jan
How can a farm reach net zero? This session focuses on the innovations of three farmers as part of a 43-strong community in Cornwall funded by the Climate Action Fund, part of the National Lottery Community Fund. The Farm Net Zero project is driven by farmers to improve farm resilience by reducing emissions from feed, fuel and fertilizer but at the same time increase soil health and ecosystem services. The speakers are part of an…
From labourers to landowners, livelihoods in agriculture are often precarious. A lack of funded pathways into farming makes careers in producing food both hard to access and difficult to sustain. Finding ways to support these livelihoods will be critical to building the resilient, sustainable and just local food systems we need. This is an interactive workshop as well as the launch of a new report, with findings from a year
of hosting conversations with…
An interactive session introducing a new finance assessment tool which will help to evaluate to what extent projects contribute towards the agroecological transformation of our food systems. The toolkit has grown out of work by many organisations, including the global Agroecology Coalition, that together have been tracking the volume and quality of funds flowing towards agroecology. In this session, speakers will introduce and discuss the tool kit and explore its potential uses in many different…