Oxford Real Farming Conference 2027

Event Date : January 7, 2027 - January 8, 2027

Event Location : Oxford

From a fringe protest of 50 people to a gathering of thousands, the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) continues to bring the grassroots agroecology and food sovereignty movement together to lead the way towards a fairer food and farming system in the UK. The ORFC 2027 line-up will include 145+ dynamic in-person sessions, including 50+ livestreamed sessions, and will bring together pioneering voices from across the UK and around the world to address the crucial issues facing food and farming right now.

This year’s conference will explore inspiring, challenging and wide-ranging topics, including:

• Organic arable farming
• Scaling novel crops in the face of climate change
• Optimising irrigation and tools for farming in extreme heat
• Farming’s role in restoring our rivers
• Seed sovereignty and community seed saving
• The fight of land defenders from the majority world
• Funding agroecology and access to land
• Understanding AI in agriculture
• Rare and heritage poultry
• Becoming policy influencers: top tips for nature-friendly farmers
• The role of fungi in healthy soils
• Farming in relationship with an animate world
• Urban farming and the right to grow campaigns
• Neurodiversity and growing veg with ADHD
• Ethical food retail and access to affordable and healthy food
• Afroecology, mutual aid & black women’s land work
• War, oil crisis and agroecological turning points
• What a regenerative economy for real farming might look like