The Oxford Farming Conference

This session is open to Scholars only.

Please select from one of the following fringes, which are delivered and managed by the hosting organisation, noted below.

Option 1: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission - Can I have some more: what's on the menu for 2030? 

Option 2: tbc

Option 3: tbc

Space is limited per fringe and booking is required so please select at the time of booking your OFC ticket.

Organised by the Innovative Farmers, the Great Beer Debate hosted at St Edmund Hall, is open to all and timed to fit alongside both Oxford Farming & Oxford Real Farming Conferences. Spaces are limited and booking is required.

Hosted in the North School at the Examination Schools.

Spaces are limited and tickets to the dinner are at an additional cost to the conference. If you would like to join us, please select this dinner option at the time of booking. If you are a Scholar or Inspire Programme delegate, dinners are already pre-selected when you register as they are included in your package.

Former Director (tbc) will open the live stream for digital attendees.

UK agriculture is facing a year of momentous change in terms of its place in the trading world. What are the challenges and are we up to the task? How can we plot a path to success? 

Speakers:

• Kimberley Botwright  - Lead, International Trade and Investments.Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum.
• Tom Tugendhat, MP - Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
• Janusz Wojciechowski - European Commissioner for Agriculture
• Speaker 4 tbc

Chair:

OFC Co-Chair, Sarah Mukherjee

This session is included in the digital package.

The Frank Parkinson Lecture is renowned for challenging thinking and looking forward to opportunities in the future. Professor Sarah Bridle will discuss her current research which focuses on synthesising, exploring and effectively communicating environmental and nutrition impacts of different dietary options, with the aim of driving changes in food production methods and portfolios to be healthy for people and the planet. 

She will also touch on some of the findings in her book, Food and Climate Change - Without the Hot Air (published in 2020)

Speaker:

• Professor Sarah Bridle

Chair:

OFC Co-Chair, Barbara Bray

This session will look at "Balancing power in supply chains to retain value and protect the farmed environment".

Speakers:

• Jack Ward, BGA
• Michelle Meagher, Balanced Economy Project
• Cliona Howie - Foundation Earth
• Speaker 4 tbc

Chair:

OFC Director, Marion Regan

This session is only open to the OFC Scholars and Inspire Programme

Hosted in the magnificent Christchurch Dining Hall, where the walls are adorned with portraits celebrating famous members of the college from Queen Elizabeth to W.H. Auden. The building has been in use since the sixteenth century, and was the inspiration for the Great Hall in Harry Potter, with the makers building an exact replica at their London studios.

Spaces are limited and tickets to the supper are at an additional cost to the conference. If you would like to join us, please select this dinner option at the time of booking. If you are a Scholar or Inspire Programme delegate, dinners are already pre-selected when you register as they are included in your package.

OFC Co-Chairs Barbara Bray and Sarah Mukherjee welcome delegates back for the last day of the conference.

The stage will be joined by Paul Fox for a special chair yoga session.

Henry Dimbleby launched part one of the National Food Strategy at the Oxford Farming Conference in 2020. He returns this January (2022) but what will he be annoucing. Watch this space as we reveal more closer to the conference.

Speaker:

Henry Dimbleby

Chair:

OFC Co-Chair, Sarah Mukherjee

OFC Co-Directors Barbara Bray and Sarah Mukherjee close the 2022 conference and formally hand over to the 2023 Chairman.

All Scholars should attend this session which will conclude by 14:00. It is not open to any other delegate.