Recommendation 35

Farmers should have access to support from accredited advisers, to transition their businesses and adopt best practices to improve the resilience of our food system 76 Environmental change and food security while adapting to and mitigating environmental change. This support should include knowledge and skills exchange between researchers, agri-tech developers, and farmers, to enable take up of technological innovations. Farmers should be able to access advice and practical support that is tailored to their local area. Existing networks such as the Linking Environment and Farming network, and the new Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture and What Works Centre, have potential to deliver this support. The Government must ensure that small farmers have access to advisory services that are free to use. It should monitor take up of advice services by farms of all sizes.