What is the problem ?
Climate change will bring opportunities for UK farmers in the UK but farmers need support to take advantage of potential opportunities.
What is the solution ?
Farming has to be more profitable and farming organisations must help farmers to adopt innovations.
What is the evidence?
Regenerative farming practices have been spreading
among British farmers.
What is the caveat?
Farming is not really profitable.
What should organisations do?
Make farming more profitable, support applied research and support ways to propagate innovations.
Sections
Section 1: First 5 minutes : Introduction to Ali , her farm and her career.
Section 2: Next 50 minutes: Opportunities and risks of climate change and the ability of growers to innovate and adapt.
Section 3: Last 10 minutes: Food security in the UK
Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise
Guest: Ali Capper
Owner of Stocks Farm, Ex Chairperson of the National Farmers Union Horticulture & Potatoes Board.
Director of the Oxford Farming Conference, Chairperson of the
British Apples and Pears and Chairperson of Wye Hops.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-capper-71163813/
Date : 8th September, 2025