Chair of Anita MacNaught

Levels of inequality in the UK are globally and unsustainably high. Control of land is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an untouchable and unaccountable elite. The climate crisis is going to exacerbate these tensions. 500 years ago, this might have prompted a revolution. Instead climate collapse could be that revolution. Can the countries land and property owners continue to shut out the poor and the dispossessed when they are also hungry and thirsty?

Guy Shrubsole

Author of Who Owns Britain? and Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, Guy has also written for numerous publications including the Guardian and New Statesman.

Prof Ian Hodge

Professor of Rural Economy at the University of Cambridge and and past President of the Agricultural Economics Society.

Antonia Layard

Chaired by Anita McNaught

Britain imports nearly 70% of it’s food. As all the farming systems of the world are damaged irrevocably by climate collapse, Britain is going to have to fall back on its own resources. But look what this country is facing; drought, over-population, an exhausted topsoil in many of our principle agricultural regions and large-scale, oil-based farming methods, that are unsustainable by any reckoning. How and what can we grow to feed our population? Is more, or less intensive farming the answer? Are livestock the problem or part of the solution?

Stuart Roberts

Vice-President of the National Farmers Union, Stuart is a third generation arable and livestock farmer who has also worked for Defra and the Food Standards Agency.

Colin Tudge

Biologist, Broadcaster and Author of books such as The Secret Life of Trees, Colin has now also co-founded the Campaign for Real Farming.

Josiah Meldrum

Co-founder and Director of Hodmedods, a British beans supplier.

John Lynch

is an environmental scientist at the University of Oxford. His work focuses the climate impacts of agriculture, especially livestock production, including new ways of thinking about and reporting agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. He is also interested in the wider implications of what a more sustainable food system might look like, and how to get there

CHAIR: Taniel Yusef

With Laura Nolan and Liz O’Sullivan

Chaired by Anita McNaught

“Around 25 years from now, where those [demand and supply] lines cross is known by some as the ‘jaws of death’ – the point at which we will not have enough water to supply our needs, unless we take action to change things’ - Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency.

We won’t be a green and pleasant land for much longer. Anyone looking at the weather and rainfall data can tell you that parts of Britain are heading into permanent drought. Combine that with population growth and development in the driest parts of the South East, a culture of little respect for water conservation, and a privatised water industry under pressure to produce profits when all the inputs are heading into the red zone. Is there any action we can take now to mitigate against our coming water crisis?

Prof. Trevor Bishop

Managed the 2012 UK drought as national duty commander and is now part of the planning team for long term (2100), future drought and flood sustainable adaptation.

Julian Jones