Nuffield Scholar, Ruth Grice, says that farmers and environmentalists should work more closely together to solve the climate and the biodiversity crisis.
“I feel, when I think of the climate and the biodiversity crisis that we’re facing globally and within the UK at a local level – it feels like we’re trying to climb Mount Everest. The dairy farming community can give a good shot at climbing Mount Everest on their own, but actually we need to do it in partnership with other communities, and a key community to do that with is naturally the environmental sector. If I just think of walking around the fields we have here on our own dairy farm, I will look at that field in a very different way to someone from an environmental organisation – and marrying the two together can only be a good thing, if it’s done in the right way.”