Soil Association Annual Conference, 18 and 19 November 2008, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol
This year's conference is focusing on 'UK Food & Renewable Energy – The Plan for Britain'. With Britain's food supplies threatened at more than any other time in recent history, this two-day event will begin to address and attempt to provide some of the solutions towards putting in place secure, resilient systems of food production, based on renewable energy.
More details to follow shortly.
2007 Conference - One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future
The 2007 Soil Association conference focused on the urgent need to develop new models of localised food and farming systems. This is in anticipation of the central role that farmers and growers will play in averting climate change and delivering food security in an era of scarce and expensive energy.
» Download One Planet Agriculture - The Case for Action - includes key articles on peak oil, energy use and the need to relocalise food.
Thursday 25 January, 2007
Friday 26 January, 2007 - One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future
Saturday 27 January, 2007
Pre-conference
Patrick Holden talks about the theme of the Soil Association annual conference - One Planet Agriculture. He discusses the effect of peak oil and the role of organic food and farming, and responds to recent comments by the Secretary of State for Environment, David Miliband.
» Listen to the mp3 [5.1 MB]
» Read the transcript
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