Mark Riley - Where have all the flowers gone? Encouraging farmers to conserve the countryside
5:30pm - 6:30pm /
Thursday 3rd August 2017
/ Venue: Seminar Room 5, Management School, Chatham Street Chatham Building
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- 01517950619
- Jamie Hughes
- Admission: Free to Liverpool University Staff and Students
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It is widely accepted that changes to farming practices over the last century have had a detrimental impact on the environment. Farmers have been positioned as both the cause of these problems and, more recently, the solution. Whilst subsidies in the War and post-war period were paid to UK farmers to produce as much as possible, attempts are now being made to reverse the associated environmental problems and encourage farmers to become more ‘environmentally-friendly’. This talk considers the challenges of this process and draws on a longer term human geography project which has worked with farmers to understand their farming practices. The talk will draw on their experiences to ask the question – ‘can we turn farmers into conservationists?’