Abbey Wilkinson
Wild LIVE: Can community food-growing change the world?
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Hull was the first UK city to grant citizens the “Right to Grow” in September 2023. But what does that really mean for people and groups growing food all around the UK?
Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature, a partnership between The Wildlife Trusts, Incredible Edible, the Womens Institute and Garden Organic, have just launched an independent report into community food growing which raises important questions: can grassroots organisations and policy-makers ever truly work in partnership? Does change emerge from incredible individuals, challenge between opposing sides, or partnership that seeks to reconcile different views? Where does the power in a community truly reside – the people or the politicians? And can planting a patch of carrots on a roundabout really change the world?
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Craig Bennett - Chief Executive at The Wildlife Trusts
Craig has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general” and, in 2021, was included in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists.
Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth where he refocussed the organisation to empower communities to take action on the climate & ecological crises, resulting in a step change in the scale and impact of the movement, with over 200 new Friends of the Earth community groups set up during his tenure. He also led the organisation to numerous campaign victories including on bees, fracking and against the expansion of Heathrow Airport.
Earlier in his career, Craig was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (from 2007 to 2010) which he transformed into one of the most progressive business voices on the international climate change agenda.
He is Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), a Senior Associate of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy at The University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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