Food, Farming and the Future
An open meeting hosted by Community Solidarity Stroud District
Sunday 25th May, 4-6pm, Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ
Join us for an inspiring meeting learning from people involved in positive and practical projects around food and farming locally. We’ll explore people’s concerns about corporate control of the food system, the future of farming, and how concerns about food and farming are being hijacked to recruit people to harmful ideas.
Our speakers will discuss the following questions:
- What can we do about food poverty? Many people cannot access enough/healthy food
- Why are small farms struggling and failing? What will the impact of recent policy changes such as inheritance tax be?
- What is working in farming like? How can working conditions in the UK and overseas be improved? How can we increase access to land for farming?
- Will there be enough food for everyone in the future? How will climate change affect food security?
- What is the impact of farming on biodiversity, the environment, and climate change, and how can we produce food more sustainably?
- How can we challenge the power of supermarkets and other corporations?
- Who is hijacking fears about food and farming – stoking fear and attempting to recruit people to harmful ideas?
- What can we do about all this?!
Agenda:
- 4pm – event opens, time for settling and meeting people
- 4.10pm – Introduction by the Chair
- 4.20-5pm – Talks by our panel of speakers
- 4-5.30pm – Discussion in groups
- 5.30-5.45pm – Wrap up
- 5.45pm – Closing remarks by Chair and time to chat
- 6.00pm – Event ends
Chair and speakers:
Jade Bashford will chair the meeting. Jade is the Programme Manager for Ready Healthy Eat at the Real Farming Trust. She has previously worked on sustainable food projects for some years at a grass roots, national and international level. She was employed by the Soil Association for 14 years, in the Local Food Department. She has worked on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), set up a food hub and community orchards and has been the owner/director of an organic brewery and canteen. She has a smallholding in Stroud and keeps bees.
We will also be joined by Judith Large representing CSSD, Molly Scott Cato – local Green Party politician, economist and activist, and Eric – a farmer running Good Small Farms in Stroud.
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Please join us for this public meeting on Sunday 25th May from 4pm to 6pm at the Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ. Please come along.
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