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News and Issues
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Are the Farmers of Eastern England Ready for the Challenges Ahead? |
22/12/2009 |
 Press release
| Contact: |
Debbie Brown |
| Organisation: |
Landskills East |
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01603 731238 |
| Email: |
dbrown@easton-college.ac.uk |
| Partners: |
Easton College |
Press Notice
Re:Are the Farmers of Eastern England Ready for the Challenges Ahead?
Our food and farming sector is among the most progressive and productive in the world, capitalising as it does on the soils, the climate, the research base and the business skills that we have. However, there is change afoot and new challenges in terms of world food requirements, carbon impacts, environmental demands, climate change and economic uncertainty face the industry. To ensure that our region’s food and farming sector can meet these challenges and continue to enhance its position, we need leaders with the skills and knowledge to continue to drive the sector forward.
David Lawrence, Principal “We at Easton College have a high regard for the management standards in the region’s agri-food industries and we believe that there is a significant potential to provide sector leaders for the future. We are now announcing our contribution to developing such leaders – the Leadership and Innovation for Agriculture to 2020 programme. We are pleased to say that this is supported by LandSkills East, the region’s RDPE-funded training initiative.”
The course that we have designed has been built largely around the Vision 2020 paper prepared for the East of England Sustainable Farming and Food Group and, using a mix of seminars, visits, debates and group work, will develop delegates’ awareness of the challenges and solutions for the sector, and their leadership skills. We have an outstanding group of speakers to inspire the delegates; these include Prof. Tim O’Riordan (UEA); Richard Powell (chair of Sustainability East); Dr. Jerry Knox and Prof. Guy Kirk (Cranfield); Dr John French (Director, InCrops project); Noel Bartram (Group Chief Executive, Bernard Matthews); Dr David Hughes (Emeritus Professor of Food Marketing, Imperial College); Martin Redfearn (National Agricultural Specialist, Barclays Bank); John Latham (Chairman, Camgrain); Richard McDonald (until recently Director-General NFU); and many more.
We now need to identify the future leaders for the region and invite them to join the course. If you know someone who you think would be interested in and benefit from this course, please talk to them about attending the course, and ask them to contact Richard Rampton on 01603 731 241. In this way we can assemble a really strong group who will eventually perform outstandingly in leading the industry over the next ten or so years.
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