Sarah Johnson
2025
Sarah has a background in conservation science, and particular interest in sustainable land management. She leads LWT’s award winning work to improve and restore the peat landscape, and to explore innovative land management practises on agricultural peat soils. Active also in policy / strategy in these areas, Sarah has sat on Defra’s Lowland Peatland Taskforce NW sub-group, and is a lead author of the IUCN UK Peatland Programme’s Commission of Inquiry report on Productive Lowland Peatland.
My Sessions
Lowland peat Solutions – Rethinking farming on lowland peat
Vicki Hird
Phil Jarvis
Sarah-Jane Taylor
Sarah Johnson
Cameron Edwards
Lowland carbon peat soils are precious — from storing vast amounts of carbon to being a key wildlife, food and hydrological resource. Yet they are severely degraded, leading to soil and nature loss and greenhouse gas emissions. This session will explore the tools we have to rethink agriculture on lowland peat with speakers [including farmers] […]