DAME ELLEN MacArthur has been revealed as one of the speakers at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference.
Founder of the circular economy charity the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Dame Ellen will take part in a special session on ‘Navigating to a Nature Positive Food System’ on Friday January 7.
She is known for making history in 2005 when she became the fastest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe and remains the UK’s most successful offshore racer ever.
Dame Ellen will be in conversation with OFC co-chair Sarah Mukherjee MBE about her journey from world-class sailor, to the establishment of the Foundation, and its mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy designed to eliminate waste, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature.
Earlier this year the Foundation launched the Big Food Redesign which looks at how food brands and retailers can make nature-positive food the norm. It sets out how, by rethinking the ingredients they use and how they’re produced, they can provide choices that are better for customers, better for farmers,…
