A quieter day today but a good fringe meeting this evening with Tim Farron, Andy Atkins and Tom MacMillan. We discussed climate change, deforestation and agriculture.
Tim Farron spoke well and I warmed to him despite his enthusiasm for the NFU's election manifesto (see yesterday's blog from Bournemouth) - we'll look forward to working with him and many discussions in the future. I invited Tim to Hope Farm and he said he would come and that he'd like to see what we'd done there.
What would a low-carbon productive agriculture look like? Is it more 'intensive' or less 'intensive' than current agriculture?
Surely we need a resource-efficient agriculture? One that produces lots of food but uses less inputs and emits less pollution. That's not going to be an easy circle to square. One to sleep on.
It was nice to meet some RSPB members at the fringe - you get everywhere!
A few days back in the office before heading off to Brighton for the Labour Party Conference.