2022
A former Director of the Oxford Farming Conference, John Gilliland, is a farmer from N. Ireland; the Director of Global Agriculture and Sustainability at Devenish; Professor of Practice in Agriculture and Sustainability at Queens University Belfast; and chair of the innovative, EIP, farmer led, carbon farming project, ARC Zero, www.arczeroni.org.
Formerly, John chaired DEFRA’s Rural Climate Change Forum for seven years; helped set up SRUC’s Carbon Management Centre; and chaired the writing of the N. Ireland Sustainable Land Management Strategy which led to the recent announcement of the creation of N. Ireland’s Soil Nutrient Health and LiDAR Scheme, a World first.
Whether it’s credits, sequestration, or offsetting, everyone’s talking about carbon. But how do we as both an industry and individual farming businesses go about the de-carbonising of UK agriculture? In this ‘Question Time’ style debate hosted by the Oxford Farming Conference and chaired by OFC Director Liz Bowles, we’ll hear the opinions of four industry […]