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KEVIN FREDIANI HEAD OF SUSTANABLE LAND USE
BICTON COLLEGE
F3
Fossil Fuel Free Farming
Kevin Frediani Head of Sustainable Land Use
Overview of talk
• Rationale for progressing a new approach – Background drivers of global change – Objectives (how we set out to achieve!)
• Introduce aim of F3 project • What will be different?
The global commons – resulted in the unsustainable harvest of the worlds natural resources!
Disconnect = Unsustainable growth
Why have need to experiment and question!
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/How-Oil-Prices-Affect-The-Price-Of-Food.html
Challenge: Uncoupling food from oil!
Food issues in the modern world… • Food security • Food control • Food quality • Food quantity • Food costs • Food miles • Food sustainability • Food ethics
Making sense of agriculture
Hunter-gathering or
foraging economies
1650-1850
1950-
12000 BP -
• Sustainable Sourcing • Improve Land and Water Management • Improve Nutrition • Improve Food Security • Sustainable Agriculture • Reducing Commodity Price Volatility
UK been importer food 1000 yrs+. During the industrial revolution, we lost self-sufficiency in basic foodstuffs and have never regained it.
Making sense of food
International
National
Local (regional)
Urban
Food loss and waste.
http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/why-should-the-uk-grow-food/
Consumption driven production through population increase & emerging wealth.
Sustainable land management required for ecosystem service benefits
Reduced resource = increased market volatility & £ (need to make most of our land)
Project Aim: Fuel, Fibre & Food • Decouple production from effects of higher oil
prices – To do so without relying on soil based
biofuel production • Build resilience against climate change and
extreme weather events • Conserve local resources and reduce need for
degrading basic natural resources • To learn by experimentation and practice • To share the results and build a community of
fossil free farming practice
Key Objectives of Farm System • ECONOMICS-
Commercially Viable, productive and scalable. • ENVIRONMENT-
To conserve natural resources and to protect the wider environment (e.g., land, water, forests, biodiversity & prevent air and water pollution, manage wastes into resources).
• EXPERIMENT-
Provide physical resource for research partners, and to develop F3 systems approach and technologies.
• EDUCATION –
Provide a physical resource for all levels of Education and social groups
THE FARMING SYSTEM System Based integrated model Potential base Enterprises: Dairy. 70 Cross bred cows on Once-a-day system Sheep. 500 ewes for meat/fibre Cropping. To provide all required animal feeds, optimise and capture naturally available nutrients. Agroforestry. Symbiotic relationship between food production, soils and habitat. Hydroponic and Aquaponics Systems. Vertical and Urban growing. Pigs. Increase utilisation of woodlands and conventionally Poultry. unproductive land Adding Value. Development of local markets and processing
Flows of materials and energy in a farm system after Lewis et. al. 2010 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/agriculture/pdf/Final_Report_041010.pdf
Inputs
Outputs
Baseline Data and On-going Monitoring of system and sub-projects • Soils • Energy Usage • Diseases and Pests • Carbon Foot printing • Water Usage • Habitats • Flora • Fauna • Physical Outputs • Financial • Waste Products • Social, Community and Externality Values
Renewable energy
High Density Vertical Growing?
Integrate best of modern technology?
Overview of F3 project
Energy -‐ Anaerobic diges>on → Heat, energy, fer>liser Photo voltaic → Energy Solar transfer → Heat Biofuel (biomass, biodiesel, ethanol, biogas)
Physical -‐ Fer>lisers, nutrients, gene>cs, water, land, space, labour (replace, reuse, op>mise) Resources
F3 Food, Fibre, Fuel Markets, communi>es, supply chains (local over global) Environmental -‐ Soil, water, air, biological, health & wellbeing, community resilience Benefits Finance/ Economics Profitable Measures of success -‐ Direct profitability Environmental Stewardship
Social
Financial Environmental
Inputs Benefits
Final thoughts…
Targets and Benchmarking Systems • Should we set realistic targets? • Or extend those targets to currently
unrealistic and innovate to achieve them. • Can it be done? • We won’t know until we try
Parsonage Farm
Walking with awareness!