Working Lunch: Farmers talk climate – a countrywide conversation
Thu 09 Jul
|The Library, FarmED
How can farms cut their greenhouse gas emissions, while adapting to trade shocks and extreme weather? How should limiting farming’s climate impact fit with other priorities like food security, business profitability and supporting nature? Farmers are invited to share their views, ideas & experience.
Time & Location
09 Jul 2026, 12:00 – 14:00
The Library, FarmED, Station Rd, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton OX7 6BJ, UK
About the Event
How can farms cut their greenhouse gas emissions, while adapting to trade shocks and extreme weather? How should limiting farming’s climate impact fit with other priorities like food security, business profitability and supporting nature?
The Cluster and FarmED are working with the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, an independent, transparently funded policy organisation, who've been commissioned by Defra to run 10 focused conversations with farmers across England. We want to hear from farmers about what’s working well for their businesses and what could work better, and understand what action and incentives would be most effective.
Over a delicious FarmED lunch you’ll discuss and share your views, ideas and experience in a small group. Your thoughts will feed directly into the government’s food and farming climate strategy, due to be published in the autumn, as well as climate planning across other government departments. Rather than another tick-box consultation or survey, this…