Farm Gate

Place-based food economies are an opportunity to redesign food systems, from the bottom up, in ways that distribute profit and power more fairly throughout the value chain. They are also essential if we are to create a truly defensible nation with distributed resilience and communities that can thrive in spite of an attack on the centre. But what do place-based food economies look like - how do they help towns and villages too prepare for crisis - and how can we use these different visions of food societies to reach out to under-represented groups. ffinlo Costain is joined by:* Daphne Du Cros, Coordinator and Co-Director of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership, and author of the report, Civil Food Resilience in Practice* Jenny Ekelund, the Chief Executive of Good Food Oxfordshire* Dominic Watters, a council estate single dad and PhD Researcher at the University of Southampton.This is the latest in a series of programmes drawing on conversations that took place at the UK's Conference on Food & National Security, which was co-produced by Ark and Farm Gate. Our sponsors were Howden, Savills and Saffery - and our founding patron was Marian Boswall.

ffinlo Costain and Martin Lines (Chief Executive, Nature Friendly Farming Network) are joined by Nisreen Shahin from Inside Track, an organisation that represents an anonymous group of senior executives from major UK producers, manufacturers and retailers, who say that boardroom short-termism is leaving the food system dangerously exposed to climate change, biodiversity loss and soil degradation.They also chat through Martin's October farming operations, discuss the impact of a major railway development on his farm, talk about how to reduce on-farm fossil fuel use, and applaud Chichester's plans to survive a food crisis.

ffinlo Costain is joined by Baroness Julia Aglionby, the long-serving executive director of the Foundation for Common Land, as she takes her seat as a Liberal Democrat life peer.ffinlo asks Julia three questions: why was she chosen, how did the appointment happen, and what does she plan to do now that she’s there?

As the impacts of climate change deepen, what will happen to food and farming systems in the UK and around the world? And do we need greater food independence and food sovereignty in the UK?Today, ffinlo Costain is joined by Kirsty Lewis, Applied Climate Science Fellow at the Met Office - by Vicki Hird, Strategic Lead on Agriculture at The Wildlife Trusts - by Honor Eldridge, Author of The Future of Food Policy in the UK - and by Lucy Noad, a beef and dairy farmer from Woodhouse Farm in Wiltshire.* This programme draws on conversations that took place at the UK's Conference on Food & National Security, which was co-produced by Ark and Farm Gate. Our sponsors were Howden, Savills and Saffrey - and our founding patron was Marian Boswall.

For more than a decade, nature markets have promised wadges of new cash for farmers, promising them financial security as they work to bridge the regenerative transition and restore natural infrastructure. But while many land managers are ready to supply carbon or nature credits, the demand simply hasn't scaled, and the market that does exist is hard to navigate. So, where are we now, and what's the future for nature markets?ffinlo Costain is joined by Luke Baldwin, Chief Executive of Nature Broking - Lucy Jenner, Head of Natural Capital Consultancy at Savills - and Alastair Grizzell, former Head of Nat Cap at Zora Ecosystems, and now Commercial Director at Ark Intelligence & Events.