Pippa Hackett

From my perspective, I think people are very positive.

Look, the weather helps, but there's always a positive vibe around all of these topics that are being discussed at the Farming for Nature Festival.

When you introduce nature actually into farming, you get a whole different cohort of voices.

a different conversation and it's uplifting to be honest and it's inspiring and i think most people who will attend the day and a half here will leave with something new a nugget of something they hopefully will try on their farm or implement and i think that's very positive because

And while it's still very upbeat and very festival feel, it's serious business that we're talking about.

How we can develop a system of farming that supports nature, supports biodiversity, builds habitats, because we know from what all the data tells us all the time, that is not the case.

And so we have business owners here, people running their farms and showcasing how that can be done while supporting nature.

Well, absolutely.

And, you know, there is that argument, you know, we're here to feed the world.

And I'm doing quotes as well.

But when you look at the figures, I mean, give or take, if it's between 20 million and 50 million, you hear different numbers of people we feed.

It's still way less than 0.01%.

4% of the world's population.

So actually, we're not feeding the world with our food.

We are feeding people, and largely Western people with Western diets.

And we're not feeding many sub-Saharan African people, unfortunately, with our food.

So I'm always a bit sensitive with that term, feeding the world.

But what we do and what we can do is produce excellent food.

But, as you say, the data, and as Hannah said, the data continually tells us the way we're farming and other sectors have an impact too, is having a detrimental impact on our nature.

Our bird numbers are collapsing, insect numbers are collapsing.