Together with the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust and the Frank Arden Memorial Fund, The Nuffield Carbon Farming conference has been developed. Together with our strategic partners, and through four study areas by industry and environmental specialists, we will deliver the climate change challenges faced by UK farmers.

The study and our associated conference is intended to inform the farming community and stimulate individuals to address the carbon footprint of their business in a positive light, making the subject accessible to a community which has, to date, been dictated to. This will represent agriculture's contribution to becoming part of the solution, rather than being viewed as the problem.

Objectives of the study:

• To act as an agent to change.
• Demonstrate first level action that will provide encouragement for the industry as a whole.
• Allow policy makers to direct legislation and provide support to enable higher level commitment leading to more significant change.
• Provide solution ideas for all enterprises.
• Deliver realistic messages to the farming community, presenting attainable targets.
• To provide options for farmers to mitigate against climate change, focusing on those small changes that are most easily implemented. The philosophy is that small changes by 85% of farmers will have a far more profound effect upon emissions than fewer significant alterations to agricultural practice.