"The 2026 Oxford Farming Conference report, UK Agriculture: Grasping the Opportunities, calls for urgent action to move the UK's farming and agri-food sector from survival mode to a mission-driven, opportunity-focused sector capable of thriving in an increasingly complex, brittle and volatile world. Authored by Dr Louise Manning, the report kindly supported by a generous donation from the Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust, is based on structured discussions with 25 leaders, influencers and disruptors from across the UK and global agrifood industries."
"Shocks from shifts in world trade dynamics, regional conflicts, Brexit, and the public debt crisis have all combined with increasingly disruptive weather events to create uncertainty and instability. "In a BANI world," she says, "traditional approaches to managing risk no longer work. What has happened in the past does not necessarily reflect what we will need to adapt to in the future. Farming businesses must build robustness, inspire confidence, embrace non-linear change and use data to make sense of complexity.""
UK farming and agri-food must urgently transition from survival mode to a mission-driven, opportunity-focused sector that can thrive amid growing complexity, brittleness and volatility. Farming faces a BANI environment—brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensible—driven by shifts in world trade, regional conflicts, Brexit, public debt pressures, and disruptive weather. Traditional risk management is insufficient; businesses need robustness, confidence, adaptability to non-linear change, and rigorous data use. Policy must become clear, consistent and location-aware. Health and wellbeing are fundamental to security. Farming businesses should be profitable, innovative, and valued contributors to both the economy and the environment.
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