Vicki Hird is an award-winning author, expert, strategist and senior manager who has been working on environment, food and farming issues for over 25 years. As part-time sustainable farm campaign coordinator at Sustain, Vicki manages the farm policy and related campaigning. She has run many campaigns over the years in various organisations, has an academic background in pest management and is on the board of Pesticides Action Network. She also runs an independent consultancy undertaking campaigning and research and tweets far too much @vickihird.