Matt Waldie is a fourth-generation arable farmer from the east of Scotland. His 3000-acre farm produces oats for 10 million bowls of Quaker porridge each year. Working with the land day in and day out, Matt has first-hand experience of the impacts of climate change. It’s one of the reasons he is focused on regenerative agriculture, which enhances the natural world rather than depleting it.

“When I grew up on the farm, the seasons were very predictable but since I've started farming myself, we just get massive extremes now. And we've seen first-hand that when land hasn't been farmed particularly well or too intensively, there's a real impact on the ground. That gave us a bit of a wakeup call, and we decided that we need to really be looking at what we're doing.”

Regenerative agriculture can transform soil health, help biodiversity thrive and even draw down carbon emissions from the atmosphere. If achieved globally, it could draw down more than 100% of current annual carbon emissions, according to a new report.

“We've taken a bit of a radical approach of taking land out of production for a year to give it a rest and putting in different species of cover crops. This will provide a haven for butterflies, bees pollinating insects, and the seed for birds.

"My grandfather always said, ‘they don’t make land anymore, so you’ve got to look after it.’ I’ve got two wee girls, so I want to leave the land better than I found it."