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    Professor John Gilliland

    OBE, DSc, HND, FRAgS

    Chair

    A special advisor to the UK’s Agriculture Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and to Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), John Gilliland, is a willow and livestock farmer from N. Ireland, whose farm has independently been verified to be “Beyond” Net Zero, today. He is also the Professor of Practice in Agriculture and Sustainability at Queens University Belfast; and chair of the innovative, EIP-Agri funded, farmer led, carbon farming project, ARC Zero.

    John chaired the writing of the N. Ireland Sustainable Land Management Strategy which led to the creation of N. Ireland’s Soil Nutrient Health and LiDAR Scheme, which is a World first and an investment of £38m to baseline all fields’ soil, trees and hedges in N. Ireland.

    Previously, John was President of the Ulster Farmers Union, a Non Executive Director of SRUC, Chair of DEFRA’s Rural Climate Change Forum, Vice Chair of the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission, and member of the EU Commission’s Soil Mission Board.

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