Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minutes of Evidence


Memorandum submitted by Carl Atkin (RAS 09)

  1.  I would welcome the chance to give evidence to the EFRA Committee at the Royal Show. I attach my biographical note below.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

  2.  Carl is Director of Research for the Land and Business Division at Bidwells and also Heads the Strategic Farm Business Consultancy team within the Bidwells Agribusiness Team. He comes from a Lincolnshire Farming family and joined Bidwells six years ago on graduating from Newcastle University with a first class Honours degree in Agriculture and Farm Business Management.

  3.  He has overall responsibility for Research for the Bidwells Rural Division, analysing and interpreting the implications of EU and UK agricultural, environmental, food and rural policy on the food and farming industries. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Academic Publication Journal of Farm Management.

  4.  Business consultancy interests extend across agricultural supply chains and farming and food businesses and he has particular expertise and interest in rural grants and funding streams, and working with commercial businesses, public sector bodies and non-governmental organisations on farming, food and rural economic policy projects. He is just completing a distance learning MBA. He Chairs the Agricultural and Rural Policy Committee of the Institute of Agricultural Management, as well as being an active member of the British Institute of Agricultural Consultants (BIAC) and the Agricultural Economics Society.

June 2006





 
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