Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit on a post-Brexit agricultural landscape

Farming Today

• Episode: Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit on a post-Brexit agricultural landscape
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:14:16
• Published: 2017-03-21 01:00

Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit says we'll need a revolution in attitudes to producing food if we're to protect food security in the UK post-Brexit. He criticises our current leaders who, he claims, 'look down their noses at farming'. Food production will be the most important profession as the global population moves towards 9 billion, and we need to be inspiring the next generation of producers. He wants leaders who will make it 'rock and roll'. This is part of a special week of programmes on Farming Today that are exploring the environmental and farming opportunities that will come with Brexit featuring a line-up of special guests. During the week Princess Anne, Germaine Greer, Tim Martin, Jay Rayner and Sir Tim Smit will each explore some of the issues close to their heart relating to how we could look after our countryside, environment and produce food. Producer Sally Challoner.