To view the full written report, follow this link - https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/reports/gb/2026/stacking-land-uses-business-and-environmental-sustainability

Executive Summary

UK farming has a structural problem: most farms are designed around a single principal output, leaving them financially exposed and environmentally underused. This report asks how farmers can design land and business systems that produce multiple outputs, food, energy, environmental goods, and community value, deliberately and simultaneously, rather than by accident. I call this stacking.

I deliberately avoided the well-trodden path of celebrated exemplars and tested my own assumptions rather  ...