Agriculture needed serious re-thinking even before the present crises – financial, political, environmental, humanitarian. Now almost everyone who does not deliberately blind themselves to the obvious can see that the re-thinking is urgent. The Oxford Real Farming Conferences are designed to help this re-thinking – and to encourage farmers to take the lead, because hands-on farmers understand farming best, and yet they are routinely sidelined when it comes to making policy. The ORFC of January 2012 – the third in the series – continues what is already a tradition – but now with the inescapable sense that we must move very quickly beyond discussion and into serious action.

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