Posted on July 8, 2021 by Katerina Dauksta -
Emma is Senior Farm Carbon and Soil Advisor for the FCT. Having previously worked as an Agronomist and Crop Production Advisor based in Herefordshire, she provides technical advice across a diverse range of farming systems, delivering carbon auditing and farm efficiency projects across the UK.
After studying Biological Sciences at The University of Reading, Emma achieved the BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection (IPM), FACTS and BASIS Soil and Water qualifications alongside a combined MSc (Hons) from The University of Edinburgh and SRUC in Soils and Sustainability. In addition to her advisory role at FCT, Emma is also the co-ordinator of the Soil Farmer of the Year competition which has been running since 2015 to award and champion farmers from across the industry who manage soil to support productive and healthy crops and pasture, which in turn supports a profitable and resilient farming system.
Location: West Midlands
Posted on July 3, 2024 by Rachel Hucker -
Andy is a non-executive Director at Farm Carbon Toolkit. He qualified as a vet in 1997, and after a short period in mixed practice, went to New Zealand to learn how to be a proper farm vet. Returning to the UK in 2003, he has worked in farm practice ever since.
In 2007, he embarked on a part-time MBA journey, aiming to enhance his business acumen and develop a strategic mindset for the future. From 2009 to 2019, he not only owned a vet practice but also took on significant leadership roles. He became the Chair of XL Vets UK Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of a Veterinary training business. In these positions, he focused on delivering governance, fostering growth, and building strong teams, all within an industry undergoing rapid corporatization.
He has always struggled with the tension within veterinary medicine between farmers wanting magic bullets to ‘cure’ their animals and the need to challenge farmers to create environments where they don’t get ill. He has always been more interested in how to create systems that deliver animal health and welfare so that pharmaceutical remedies are not needed.
In 2019, he made a significant transition, selling his business and joining Mole Valley Farmers. This move allowed him to broaden his understanding of Agriculture from different perspectives, encompassing nutrition, agronomy, and retail, all while managing their vet practice. This shift also sparked a deeper interest in how we can address issues of climate change and sustainability.
In 2022, he completed a short course in sustainability leadership at CISL. Understanding how to draw down carbon and farm regeneratively allows him to act as a bridge between farming, professional services, agricultural businesses, and innovative companies.
Since 2022, his consulting activities have been split between working with vet practices to strategically face the future and farming business to engage in regenerative farming.
He works with organisations to support their senior leadership teams in thriving whilst valuing their people and the planet.
Currently, he has his own consultancy business focused on supporting Veterinary and Agricultural organisations in facing the future with optimism and creativity to deliver a sustainable future where our grandchildren can be proud of the work we have done to cool the planet and bring back biodiversity.
Posted on June 14, 2021 by Katerina Dauksta -
Liz is the Chief Executive Officer at the Farm Carbon Toolkit, a role she took on recently, having been a director there for the past five years. Liz has a wealth of experience of agriculture and food both in the UK and internationally. She has worked in the sector for over 30 years and brings a practical approach combined with scientific and sector knowledge to her roles.
Liz holds a BSc in Animal Science and is a Nuffield scholar, where her research involved exploring co-operation in the red meat sector and was a precursor to her joining EFFP. Here she worked on the development of supply chain collaboration in England. Other roles have been with English Food and Farming Partnerships and ADAS.
Liz is an Oxford Farming Conference Director and an advisor to Sell My Livestock. In her spare time Liz manages one of the largest pedigree flocks of Shropshire sheep in the UK and combines this with being a Council Member of the Breed Society.
Prior to joining FCT Liz was Associate Director of Farming and Land Use at the Soil Association. Liz brings not only an extensive expertise in the UK food and farming markets, but she also has a deep and practical understanding of the importance of improving soil health, reducing environmental impacts and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and building resilience within the sector. She advocates that building economic resilience must occur alongside retaining product quality and animal welfare standards and building sustainable, regenerative practices on farm.
Location: South West
Posted on April 10, 2024 by Rachel Hucker -
Michael supports farms to understand their carbon footprint helping us achieve our ambition for the calculator to be the most trusted, robust and highly-regarded of its kind. This means keeping the tool accessible and user-friendly for all users whilst finding tailored solutions for those wanting to maximise their use of this industry-leading tool. With a Masters in Social Research and extensive customer service experience Michael brings a systematic and common-sense approach to helping our customers. Before working here Michael has, among other things, organised training and events in the dairy industry and helped with sales and administration for an environmental consultancy.
Location: Scotland
Posted on January 15, 2024 by Rachel Hucker -
Anthony is a Farm Soil & Carbon Advisor. With a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture with Environmental Management and the BASIS Diploma in Agronomy, Anthony has spent a number of years working in commercial agronomy, environmental management and research and development in both the UK and Australia. Driven by a passion for sustainable, nature friendly farming, Anthony helps manage his family’s sheep and arable farm in Cornwall with his father.
Location: South West
Posted on December 6, 2022 by Sam Smith -
Izzy is our Data Scientist. She is passionate about getting useful insight from the valuable data we collect, using robust statistical techniques.
Izzy previously worked in the Scottish Government’s Agricultural Analysis Unit, collecting and processing data for the June Agricultural Census and the Sheep and Goat Inventory. She was part of a programme designed to overhaul the data collection procedure, so as to reduce the burden on farmers and improve the quality of the data collected and its relevance towards climate change and other challenges facing farmers. Before that, she completed a Masters in Applied Statistics with the University of Strathclyde.
Izzy lives in Cumbria and is part of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, and spends all the spare time she can exploring hard-to-reach crags in the Lake District mountains.
Location: Cumbria
Read ‘A Day in the life of Izzy Garnsey’ here.
Posted on July 3, 2024 by Rachel Hucker -
Rachel is the Operations Administrator at FCT and is based near Exeter. She has extensive administrative experience in both the private sector and in Higher Education. Most recently, she was Executive P.A. to the President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Exeter, a role she held for 14 years. Following her BA(Hons) degree in Modern Languages, Rachel worked and studied in Europe, Singapore, Australia and the Caribbean, and is now delighted to support the work of FCT and our partners. Her role is to provide administrative support to the Chief Executive, General Manager, Directors, Advisory and Calculator teams and to help organise FCT events and conferences throughout the year.
Posted on July 3, 2024 by Rachel Hucker -
David is a non-executive Director at FCT. He is co-founder of CO2eco, a start-up with a mission to create solutions for long term investments in nature recovery. The company is currently focused on projects in Latin America, implementing funding streams for the large-scale restoration of rainforest. His role immerses him in the emerging markets for ecosystem services and carbon removal, and he has a particular interest in how data and accounting must develop to underpin these markets. David is a chartered accountant and spent much of his career in leadership roles in finance and operations covering sectors including spatial data, landscape engineering, management consultancy and government regulation. His masters’ degree in Leadership In Sustainability at CISL Cambridge in 2019-21 included a thesis on a UK market for soil carbon sequestration, which led to the creation of CO2eco. He lives in Oxford, which he considers the epicentre of the civilised world, with its farming conferences and university faculties dedicated to climate transition and nature recovery. Out of work, you will find him outside enjoying nature – on bikes, boats or on foot.
Posted on June 14, 2021 by Sam Smith -
Hannah Jones is a Farm carbon and soils adviser with the Farm Carbon Toolkit. Hannah has previously coordinated and carried out research projects spanning herbal leys, arable systems, cover crops and field vegetables. Her role has been to coordinate farm-based trials by working closely with farmers and agricultural businesses to optimise the impact and applicability of the research. She has taken this experience and is contributing to the developing project portfolio of FCT. Her work includes bespoke trials which feed into the Farm Carbon Calculator, the advisory work and knowledge transfer. Her interests and drive focus around the business and environmental sustainability of farms, and her favourite days include discussing innovations on farm around a kitchen table!
She has a PhD in plant pathology from Oxford University, a degree in plant sciences from Birmingham University, a Masters in postgraduate teaching from the University of Reading, and is FACTS qualified. Hannah has taught crop sciences at Duchy College and the University of Reading, supervised 10 PhD students, and various masters and undergraduate students. She has contributed to a range of refereed papers relating to organic farming systems, wheat breeding, herbal leys, climate change effects on crops and plant breeding for diversity.
Location: South West
Read ‘A Day in the life of Hannah Jones’ here
Posted on July 3, 2024 by Rachel Hucker -
Joe is a Farm Carbon and Soils Project Assistant with FCT. Before deciding to change his career, he taught abroad in South Korea where his childhood interest in nature and the environment was rekindled, and he decided to return to education.
Studying the Land and Ecological Restoration MSc at the Eden Project, he eventually decided to specialise in soil, influenced by the passion of his tutors, and specifically focussed on the field of soil health. Joe completed the second year of his MSc whilst also working as a Research Assistant on the EU-funded, ReCon Soil Project. His aspiration is to see a thriving natural environment where humans sustainably manage the land for physical, mental and emotional well-being.
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