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Kathryn meets the founders of a new organisation of young people from the food and fibre industry who want radical change in the farming sector.
Future Farmers is co-founded by Finn Ross and Aimee Blake, two young farmers, academics and activists who have drawn together a group of like-minded young people from across the political spectrum to create a manifesto for the issues they wish to see addressed.
Issues like agricultural emissions, climate mitigation, species loss, a struggling wood sector, high levels of farmer suicide and unswimmable rivers.
Finn Ross is the founder of Carbon NZ - a carbon credit trading network, he's a Deakin University PhD candidate, investigating seaweed as a natural climate solution and lives on Lake Hawea Station - the first certified carbon zero farm in Australasia.
Aimee Blake is completing her second master's degree at Lincoln University, specialising in agribusiness and researching sustainable food system transformation.
She has a background in food marketing and is the sixth generation on her familys small farm in Waiau Pa, south of Auckland.
Finn and Aimee will officially launch Future Farmers at the E Tipu IFAMA World Conference in Christchurch in June.
