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30/09/2010 07:35:50
The next decade of rural policy
Sir Donald Curry, Chair of the Sustainable Farming and Food Delivery Group and author of the influential Curry Report, will be speaking at a major rural policy conference in Gloucestershire on 19 October entitled Conflict or Consensus? The Next Decade of Rural Policy.
This high profile event is organised by the Countryside and Community Research Institute and aims to look forward to the next decade of rural policy, taking into account the challenges and innovations in rural policy making as societal debates about the future use of land, climate change, demographic trends and the threat of resource ’peaks’ come together. It will consider the emergence at a national level of a form of consensus politics and the backdrop of financial retrenchment at all levels of government from the EU down.
The conference will apply a focus on four rural themes: Land and its Uses; Future of Food; Communities in Transition and Science, Technology and Rural Life. Current topics, such as the need for increased food production, biofuels, wildlife conservation, food security and sustainable production, aging rural communities, and the role of science in informing rural policy making, will all be under the spotlight. Unique technology will be used to present four live web seminars – Webinars – ahead of the conference to provide background and stimulate debate, which will be covered in more detail at the conference.
Organiser, Dr Matt Reed of the CCRI, says: "The conference represents a great opportunity to highlight current issues affecting rural policymaking. We are delighted with our line-up of key speakers - all experts in the field of rural policy - who will facilitate stimulating topical debate."
This high profile event is organised by the Countryside and Community Research Institute and aims to look forward to the next decade of rural policy, taking into account the challenges and innovations in rural policy making as societal debates about the future use of land, climate change, demographic trends and the threat of resource ’peaks’ come together. It will consider the emergence at a national level of a form of consensus politics and the backdrop of financial retrenchment at all levels of government from the EU down.
The conference will apply a focus on four rural themes: Land and its Uses; Future of Food; Communities in Transition and Science, Technology and Rural Life. Current topics, such as the need for increased food production, biofuels, wildlife conservation, food security and sustainable production, aging rural communities, and the role of science in informing rural policy making, will all be under the spotlight. Unique technology will be used to present four live web seminars – Webinars – ahead of the conference to provide background and stimulate debate, which will be covered in more detail at the conference.
Organiser, Dr Matt Reed of the CCRI, says: "The conference represents a great opportunity to highlight current issues affecting rural policymaking. We are delighted with our line-up of key speakers - all experts in the field of rural policy - who will facilitate stimulating topical debate."
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