Jane Acton

Project Lead, Ethnobotanist | Common Flora

My preferred location(s)

  • South West

My background

  • Third sector

My field of interest and expertise

  • Biodiversity, ecology, conservation
  • Crop production
  • Food security and trade
  • GHG measurement, accounting and markets
  • Land strategy and sequestration
  • Livestock farming
  • Policy and economics
  • Power, inequality and just transition
  • Supply chains, retail and hospitality
  • Systems thinking and modelling
  • Waste, energy and circular systems

I am interested in working with other members on

Food security, organic production, agroforestry and forest gardening, community development around farms, mental wellbeing among farmers and landworkers.

About me

I am part of a small certified organic agroforestry social enterprise where we grow plant materials, process onsite and sell online (mostly). We also run a funded farm network/cluster focussing on improved habitat for pollinators, farmer well being and people who are vulnerable (disability, refugees, low income). I am a plant biologist and environmental anthropologist.

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