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THE AGRARIAN RENAISSANCE:: PEOPLE :: LAND :: FOOD ::

The Agrarian Renaissance

why and how food and farming must change


A Perfect Storm

Global Food Riots

No 10 Strategy Unit

Chatham House

The Royal Society

The UK Government Food Strategy

Foresight Programme

“The Perfect Storm” - Population, Urbanisation & ‘Prosperity’ drive demand

- Energy, Water & Land + CLIMATE constrict supply

“Food Fundamentals” - less oil; climate change; water; biodiversity; urbanisation; labour; population;affluence&health;climbingthefoodchain


There is really only one option

The International Assessment of Agriculture, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)

It is NOT a simple question of yield-per-acre - access more important than production

- markets more important than technology

ProposedGMOfixesarefundamentallyflawed -createmoreentrencheddependenceoninputs

- relies on not-yet-created multi-genetic traits

- ignores issues of livelihood and equity

The health impacts of eating processed foods and factory farmed meat

The quality of the countryside and health of rural economies and cultures


Can Britain Feed Itself?

YES! - we have enough arable land already... and with a few simple calculations:

arable pasture woodland spare land

Chemical Vegan 3 - - 15.6

Chemical Livestock 4.4 6.4 - 7.6

Organic Vegan 7.3 - - 11.2

Organic Livestock 8.1 7.8 - 2.6

Permaculture Vegan 7.2 - 6 8.8

Permaculture Livestock 7.5 5.9 6 2.8

“Self Reliance” “Food Sovereignty” “Freedom to Trade”

CanTotnesFeedItself?CanNorwichFeedItself?CanBrixtonFeedItself?CanBristolFeedItself?


The State Of UK Farming

MASSIVE fall in Total UK Farming Income - from £7 bil (1970s) to £2.5 bil (current)

Accompanying 22% reduction in share of market price - from 47% (1988) to 36% (2007)

This is a DIRECT transfer of wealth to the supermarkets

TotalprofitabilityalmostwipedoutbyestimatedcostofNitratePollutionalone(£1.8bilperyear)

The system is propped up by ineffective and grossly unfair subsidies

Additionalexternalitiesnotcounted-Health,Roads,HighStreets...

UK Farming stripped of its assets - People, skills and culture

- Infrastructure

- Secondary economy

- Biodiversity, hedgerows, soil condition

- Over-burdened by debt


The Agrarian Renaissance

Agrarian - relating to rural matters; “an agrarian society”

- implies a strong connection between people, land and food

Renaissance - resurgence, reawakening, rebirth, renewal, revival

- emphasises the role of learning and culture

Food and Farming must change...

Themargins,labourandknow-howexist...

Customers, customers, customers...

All that a farm can be...

If it can be done once...


Founding Principles

We can feed ourselves (if we choose to)

There is only one realistic option

Farmingmustbemixed,diverseandcomplex

We all farm three times a day

An Agrarian leap forwards

The huge importance of the small

Act global, buy local

If something can be done once...

Great farming = great food = great life

Because it is right: our shared humanity


Church Farm, Ardeley


FARM:shop


The New Agrarian Convention



A People’s Brand Based On Farms

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AGRARIAN RENAISSANCE RECONNECTING PEOPLE , LAND & FOOD


The role of geo-data

Ongoing collaboration with live|work over 2 years

Engagement with OS and Geovation

Ideas that might just work?

- The State of UK Farming (interrogate baseline data and the current situation)

- Open Land Map (using geo-tagged “tweets”?)

- Local Food Mash-Up(compileallexistinglocal food and growing data in one place)

- Planning to Grow (interactive map-based planningtoolusingexistingdata)

- The REAL Farmville (open innovation for food and farming)

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