A tale of two farming conferences: the future is 'real' and organic

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Date Written:  2015-01-08
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17128

Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.