3 December 2024 – Richard Kipling

Regenerative farming

Buzzword, or transformation?

How can the demand for low-cost food be reconciled with the increased interest in local food systems, together with environmental factors such as climate, welfare, and biodiversity? In this talk for Engaging Issues, Richard will consider regenerative farming as a solution. He will set out the strengths and weaknesses of regenerative farming as a concept, and consider what has prevented transformational change so far.

Richard Kipling

Richard Kipling is a researcher at Oxford University, working on the TABLE initiative. TABLE is a food systems platform that sets out the evidence, assumptions, and values that people bring to debates about resilient and sustainable food futures. TABLE participants explore the data, biases, and beliefs behind those debates in order to support better dialogue, decision making, and action.

Richard is also a research advisor to the Sustainable Food Trust, where he has been Head of Research for three years.

Richard's background includes a PhD in pollination ecology and two seasons spent surveying seabirds on Skomer Island. He has 12 years of experience as a researcher and a lecturer on food and farming sustainability. His research in recent years has been on barriers to change in food and farming, and development of the local food sector.