What can food tell us about people, place and politics?
7.00pm, Thursday 8 June 2023
Civic Hall, Holmfirth
Cash Bar
FREE entry – all welcome
7.00pm, General Meeting
7.30pm, Panel Presentation and Discussion
We are delighted to host 3 key speakers on food, sustainability and agricultural production in the Holme Valley and the impact of Brexit.
Dr John Lever
Director Centre for Sustainability, Responsibility, Governance and Ethics, University of Huddersfield
John has been researching local and regional food system transformations and has been commissioned by Kirklees Public Health Directorate to examine how local food partnership can boost the health of local people, the economy and the environment. The need to think about the land use issues impacting farmers because of the new land management schemes (ELMs) that emerged since leaving the EU. He has also been advising the Holme Valley Climate Action Partnership on a land use project.
Jimmy Dickinson
Jimmy is the owner of local company, Longley Farm, a major producer of dairy products using the milk of 80 farms in Yorkshire and its own large farm. He supports a local windmill project and is interested in rewilding. The company which exports to the EU has encountered major difficulties following Brexit.
Adrianna Kapek-Goodridge
Researcher at the University of Huddersfield on farming and welfare governance in the EU with emphasis on the welfare of farm animals, fish and meat reduction, of particular importance in light of the Government’s ‘bonfire’ of EU regulations.
