Farmers invited to join global Twitter discussion
Farmers from around the globe are being invited to take part in the first live, worldwide discussion on Twitter.
The chat will take place on World Food Day, Wednesday 16 October, and is being organised by a collaboration of European farming Twitter groups.
The discussion will pull together farmers from across Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand, but the organisers hope food producers and consumers everywhere will take part.
Farmers in each country will be asked to share their experiences and thoughts on the challenges they face, the future of the food system, and to share photos of their farms.
The discussion will take place from 8-9.30pm BST. To allow for the time difference, the discussion will also run at 8am Australian central time (ACST), facilitated by @AgchatOZ.
To take part, tweeters will need to use the hashtags #AgrichatWorld and #WFD2013.
The Twitter groups involved in the webchat are @AgrichatUK, @AgrichatNL (Netherlands), @EUFoodChat, @Agchat in the US, @AgchatOZ (Australia) and @AgchatNZ (New Zealand).
Josien Kapma, a Dutch farmer and founder of @AgrichatNL said: “In a world with fewer people than ever producing more food than ever, farmers worldwide have a lot in common.
“We share between us a large responsibility and World Food Day is a good moment to celebrate that we are proud producers of the world’s food, but also to raise awareness of the issues faced in producing sufficient food sustainably.”