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This is the third episode in our series: Filling the Funding Gap, in which we discuss how particular natural capital markets work and whether they can help farmers to bridge the gap between public payments and the real costs of transition towards resilient and regenerative food production.
ffinlo Costain is joined by two experts from Regenerate Outcomes: Matt Jordon, Chief Scientific Officer and Tom Dillon, Director.
Farm Gate's Filling the Funding Gap series is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howdens Insurance, Regenerate and Saffery.
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In this programme we'll ask - what do UK farmers need to do first to access nature payments?
ffinlo Costain is joined by:
Holly Story, Head of Nature-based Solutions at National Parks Partnerships
Guy Thallon, Head of Natural Environment at Castle Howard
And David Wright, founder and CEO of Ecometric
We're talk about what can be measured and how - options for payments - actions that can be stacked with food and fibre production - and baselining and outcome measures.
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8point9.com editor, ffinlo Costain, is joined by a new co-host, Joe Stanley, for Farm Gate's monthly chat through the big land use topics of the moment.
Joe Stanley is a Farmers’ Weekly columnist, author and Head of Sustainable Farming at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Allerton Project.
In this podcast they discuss NFU leadership tactics - whether the ongoing campaign against inheritance tax changes is performative or effective - the UK government's decision to uphold a ban on noenicitinoid use - and new financial incentives to boost on-farm water management.
(Views expressed in the podcast by Joe and ffinlo do not necessarily represent the views of their respective companies and organisations.)
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This is the first of 11 programmes in a series called Filling the Funding Gap.
Throughout the series we'll discuss how natural capital markets work and whether they can help farmers to bridge the gap between public payments and the real costs of transition towards resilient and regenerative food production.
In this introductory programme we're taking a broad overview - discussing what we mean by natural capital markets - the extent to which they currently function - and we'll consider some of the ethical dimensions of monetising the natural world in the first place.
Featuring:
Martin Lines, Chief Executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network
Peter Harker, a partner at Saffrey
Tom Johnstone from We Are Nature-Based
With ffinlo Costain, Editor of 8point9.com
This series is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howdens Insurance, Regenerate and Saffrey.
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When we think of regenerative food and farming, we tend to think of small to medium-scale farmers, supplying into small or perhaps independent supply chains.
But what about big companies – what about massive corporations – can their supply chains be regenerative too?
Nestlé has become the great big regen corporation – but who’s responsible for that decision, what does regen mean for a global food brand, and how do you deliver transition through such an enormous network of suppliers?
I spoke to Emma Keller, Head of Sustainability, and Matt Ryan, the Regeneration Lead for Nestlé UK and Ireland.
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In this programme, ffinlo Costain talks to two storytelling giants from the world of farming - Graham Harvey, former scriptwriter and farming story editor for the long-running BBC Radio drama, The Archers - And Ben Eagle who runs the podcast agency RuralPod Media and is the host of two farming podcasts: Rural Business Focus and Meet The Farmers.
They talk about the public perception of farming, the stories the industry chooses to tell, and how storytelling helps to shape the political, scientific and practical choices of farmers and policymakers.
They also talk about The Archers and the role that it's played in shaping the public and political perception of farming issues.
Graham's book, Underneath the Archers can be found at Waterstones and on Amazon. RuralPod Media can be found here.
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In this programme, Farm Gate addresses the challenge of growing regenerative cereals in Britain. Is it possible? How can farmers deliver regeneration while producing the yields and profits necessary for viable farm businesses and a healthy food system?
ffinlo Costain talks to Tim Parton from Brewood Park Farm, who's passionately championed regenerative agriculture for 15 years - and to Joe Stanley, the Head of Sustainable Farming at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's Allerton Project and a Farmers' Weekly columnist.
The trio discuss soil-building rotations, livestock integration, the impact of climate change, glyphosate and the cost of Wildfarmed bread.
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ffinlo Costain is joined by Charlie Bennett, author of Down the Rabbit Hole - The misadventures of an unlikely naturalist.
They discuss the nature, language, heritage and history that Charlie showcases in his book - which is a perfect stocking filler.
Down the Rabbit Hole is now available in Northumberland bookshops - across the UK in Waterstones - and for international listeners, direct from CharlieBennettauthor.co.uk.
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ffinlo Costain speaks to Dougald Hine, author of 'At Work in the Ruins: Finding our place in the time of climate crisis and other emergencies'.Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker, and one of the great minds behind the Dark Mountain Project.
We talk about his new book, and about the role of agriculture and food production in taking humanity through ecological, social and economic collapse.
You can buy Hine's book - At Work in the Ruins - at all good book shops, on the street, or online.
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In this programme, we're previewing LandAlive - the regenerative agriculture conference taking place at the Bath & West Showground on the 22nd and 23rd of November.
ffinlo Costain is joined by:
Tamara Giltsoff, co-founder of LandAlive George Dunn the chief executive of the Tenant Farmers' Association And Abby Allen, director of Pipers Farm and author of The Sustainable Meat CookbookAnd to claim the exclusive half-price discount for Farm Gate and 8point9.com readers and listeners:
Go to the LandAlive website - landalive.co.uk Click on 'Buy Tickets' Select 'General - 2 day delegates' And enter the discount code '8point9' -
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft - he's a good guy, right? Africa's food system has been a major recipient of Gates' $59bn philanthropy. But is Gates helping African food systems - or destroying them? Is he ending hunger - or depleting land resilience and contributing to food insecurity and societal instability?
I'm joined by Tim Schwab, author of the new book, The Bill Gates Problem - and by Million Belay, the co-founder of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
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Seven conversations today, focussed on Land Alive, a new British regen farming event at the end of November; the findings of three Nuffield Farming Scholars; the potential to integrate bast fibre production within organic farm systems; and the perils faced by earthworms when the land floods.
ffinlo Costain speaks to:
Professor Mark Hodson, from the University of York - 0'34''
Graham Harvey, from Land Alive - 10'40''
Carol Paris, from the Royal Bath & West Society, and Tamara Giltsoff, from Land Alive - 16'25''
Zoe Gilbertson, a fashion ecologist - 27'14''
Kendra Hall, Nuffield Farming Scholar - 36'02''
Chris Taylor, Nuffield Farming Scholar - 46'08''
Ruth Grice, Nuffield Farming Scholar - 56'20''
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There's an ever-bigger regen farming community at all scales of production - but there are also farmers who say that they've tried regen ag, but it hasn't worked and they've given up.
Why are these farmers failing to deliver a regenerative transition on their farms and in their businesses?
ffinlo Costain is joined by two regen farming experts, Tim Williams and Clare Hill, and together they flesh out some of the hurdles and identify some possible solutions.
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Today we're frontloading the programme with conversations about baselining, banking and funding the transition - we'll hear from Lee Reeves from Lloyds, Adam White from Barclays and Doug Wanstall who wants to bring integrity into carbon markets. Later, Andrew Whiteford will explain a little of the business-case for tree-planting in Scotland - Valentin Pitiot will extol the virtues of giant kelp - and Dan McAlpine will talk to us about why Compassion in World Farming has turned the spotlight onto UK retailers' chicken supply chains.
ffinlo Costain speaks to:
Adam White from Barclays Business Banking - 0'54''
Lee Reeves from Lloyds Banking Group - 12'00
Doug Wanstall from Beyond Zero - 24'40''
Valentin Pitiot from Kelp Blue - 37'25''
Andrew Whiteford of Ulzieside Farm - 51'26''
Dan McAlpine from Compassion in World Farming - 1,00' 58''
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Well, the summer's over, but for the last week in the southwest of England the sun's been shining while autumn's been gently easing itself into the air - and Newsweek is back with a full, ripe crop of six conversations.
ffinlo Costain speaks to:
Emma Toovey from the Environment Bank - 1'10''
Leona McDonald, the director of Golden Hooves - 9'12''
Andrew Barbour from Mains of Fincastle - 15'58''
Bishop Takalani Mufamadi from the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute - 25'46''
Emma Bell from The Open University - 40'22''
Alice Groom from the RSPB - 53'24''
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ffinlo Costain speaks to Alpha Lo, the founder of the Climate Water Project, a series of podcasts and articles in which Alpha investigates how to restore the water web.
Farm Gate is part of https://8point9.com/
To find out more about the Climate Water Project just visit https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/
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Forests are super important - they have enormous environmental, economic, cultural and amenity value as well as being sources of food and nutrition, medicines, habitats, fuel and, of course, building materials.
In this programme, we discuss what timber can do - why forests are so important - how public support for commercial forestry could be improved - and where forestry fits within broader land use conversations.
ffinlo Costain is joined by Paul Brannen, the author of Timber! How wood can help save the world from climate breakdown - and by sustainable forestry consultant, Andrew Heald.
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* Pat Thomas from A Bigger Conversation - 1'00''
* Emily Bull from FAI Farms - 14'18''
* Professor Sebastian Dötterl from ECH Zurich - 31'08''
* Million Belay from IPES Food and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa - 42'11''
* Vicki Hird from The Wildlife Trusts - 55'32''
* Alun Thomas from the Beacons Water Group - 1,05'23''
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In Britain, Labour has promised to "build 1.5 million new homes by the end of this parliament, with the biggest increase in social housing and affordable housebuilding in a generation."
ffinlo Costain asks, can these homes be built in the time available - and just as importantly, can this level of house building be achieved in balance with nature and food production?
ffinlo is joined by James Ellis, Director of Planning at Rural Solutions - and by Gabriel Connor Streich, the Chief Executive of Greenshank Environmental.
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Phil Carson (Nature Friendly Farming Network) and ffinlo Costain (8point9.com) discuss Labour's landslide general election victory, and what it means for food, farming and nature.
This is Phil's last WFTC, as he moves on to a new role in Northern Ireland. A BIG thank you for all his knowledge and expert conversation.
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