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Reasons Revisited

Back to nature: how can farming be sustainable?

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hello! This week we’re getting our wellies on as we dig deeper into the future of farming. Agriculture accounts for around 10% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions and has a role in biodiversity loss and pollution. So how can we change the way we farm and use our land in a way that helps ensure food security, restores nature and provides a livelihood for farmers, all while tackling the climate crisis? It's quite a task but we chew it all over with Lydia Collas from Green Alliance and Minette Batters from the National Farmers’ Union. We’re then heading to Dorset to talk to Jyoti Fernandes about the role of ‘agro-ecology’ to feed ourselves, restore nature, and cool the planet.


Plus: Which unexpected (and highly relevant) radio show was Ed obsessed with as a child?



Guests


Lydia Collas, Policy Analyst, Green Alliance (@LydiaCollas / @GreenAllianceUK)

Minette Batters, President, National Farmers' Union (@Minette_Batters / @NFUtweets)

Jyoti Fernandes, Campaigns and Policy Coordinator, Landworkers’ Alliance & Agroecology Smallholder (@fernandes_jyoti @LandworkersUK)



More information


Visit the websites of Green Alliancethe NFU and LWA

Read Jyoti's open letter to George Monbiot

Elms: England greener farming payments detail unveiled (Article, BBC News, January 2023)

What is agroecology? (Explainer, The Soil Association)

Contact Reasons to be Cheerful via our website, follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Let us know your episode ideas, your comments and feedback!




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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by the Financial Fairness Podcast, which I've recently become a

0:05.1

subscriber to. If you like this, I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. It is excellent conversations

0:11.6

about the issues that affect living standards. I listened to a great one yesterday,

0:16.3

with Chief Executive of the Trustle Trust, Emma Revy, who's working to stop UK hunger and poverty.

0:21.9

And she's incredible obviously. Now of course, people needing to turn to food banks because

0:26.6

of financial hardship is deeply troubling. But it was also really inspiring to hear about how

0:32.8

they meet that need with compassion and also Emma's thoughts on what needs to change. And that

0:38.8

is what is at the heart of every episode and of the Financial Fairness Trust itself, improving

0:45.6

living standards for people on low to middle incomes in the UK. Now like I said, I'm certain that

0:50.8

if you enjoy our podcast, you'll really love it. And I'm just looking down the feed. And they have

0:56.0

excellent guests to real heavyweights like economists, meata fanbola, former chancellor,

1:02.3

Alistair Darling, award-winning money journalist Paul Lewis. Basically, you get to hear some

1:07.2

serious brains on why our economy works the way it does and how we can create a fairer society.

1:13.3

Listen and subscribe to Financial Fairness Podcast.

1:25.1

This says reasons to be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd.

1:29.4

Well hello. Hello. How was your Easter? It was fine. I feel like maybe we are not in touch

1:36.6

enough. Why did you say that? Well, because I told you just before we turned the mics on that I'd

1:41.6

been to Nice. I went on a fantastic holiday to Nice for Easter. You said, oh, I love Nice.

1:47.3

Do you seem to be very unfair with Nice? But we I felt to communicate before and I was going.

1:52.9

I would have got lots of travel tips from you. But some years ago, I recommended it as a holiday

1:57.6

destination to you. And you were kind of sniffy and snooty about and said, oh no, it's very touristy.

2:02.9

We prefer to go somewhere more authentic. That sounds entirely characteristic of me to say,

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