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With your help, we are bringing people together to find practical ways to improve our climate, nature, health and economy. Twitter guide https://t.co/fAwPryWonA
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📢 Monday is the last chance to get your proposals to us for the @EarthshotPrize . We are seeking individuals, communities, businesses and organisations who have impactful solutions to the planet's biggest environmental problems. Share your solutions 👇 .
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How we grow, make & eat food isn’t working for everyday people anymore. We hear five expert perspectives on why food is so important for climate, nature & health, now and for the next generation📽️. @RosieBoycott @Rob_Percival_ @DoctorChrisVT @timgbenton #TheFoodConversation
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New poll shows citizens want more support for farmers 👩🌾. With nearly 1 in 2 people cutting back on the quality of food they eat due to money, it’s time for policymakers to join the dots to ensure fairness for all, from farm to fork. #TheFoodConversation.
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📢 LAUNCHED TODAY. Our final report sets out radical & practical ways to restore people’s health & wellbeing, recover & regenerate nature & the need for a 10-year transition plan for a more sustainable food system by 2030. Read the full report:
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📢 New report #FarmingforChange: mapping a route to 2030 . 🍎#Agroecology can produce enough healthy food for a future UK population, act on the climate crisis, and make more land available for nature. 📺 #ORFCGlobal 4pm 📖
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We are proud to announce that we have been selected as an official Nominator for The @EarthshotPrize. It is the most prestigious global environment prize in history and was launched today by Prince William. Visit to find out more.
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📊 Data from our poll w/ @Food_Foundation. - More than 19 million people say they're cooking more from scratch.- 17 million are throwing away less food.- 3 million have tried a veg box scheme / ordered food from a local farm for the first time. More here:
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🚨 Out today: New report shows citizens are hungry for change . 🇬🇧 2000-strong national poll backs up citizen dialogues . 🍏 75% think government is not doing enough to ensure everyone can afford healthy food . 📚 More on #TheFoodConversation findings 👇 .
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📢NEWS. 🎉We're delighted to have received a 3 year core funding grant from @EsmeeFairbairn to continue our work. 🗒After a great 2 years at @theRSAorg, we're now an independent, mission-led charity 👉(come say hello). (Thread).
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THREAD. Today we launch our final report, with recommendations for action underpinned by three principles:. 1. Healthy food is every body’s business.2. Farming is a force for change.3. The countryside has to work for everyone. Full report:
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🌍We want Britain to be flying the flag around the world in trade deals that boost climate and nature-safe farming, exemplary animal welfare, and healthy, sustainably produced food from a thriving agricultural sector. #TradeUnwrapped🧵👇1/8
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Our new report #FarmingSmarter shows that #Agroecology is good business. Farming businesses now need policy-level vision and practical solutions to enable a transition to nature and climate wise models with confidence. #OFCBitesize #FutureFarming.
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Guardian piece covering our report launch. The ecological transformation of our food and farming system is urgent. Getting it right is essential for averting climate breakdown, restoring nature & securing human health, wellbeing & livelihoods
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The health of our rivers is at the top of voters' minds💧. 🌿79% want fines for food producers that pollute the environment. 🏭78% want regulation to protect against industrial farming that harms nature & countryside. #CPC23 #TheFoodConversation.
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Today we launch the UK's biggest ever conversation about food. We're asking what people really think about food. We’ll share what we find with policymakers + businesses ahead of the election. We think they may be surprised. #TheFoodConversation 👇 .
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What do farmers really think? . In this first film in a new series, @blewinbell @soillifefarmer @HelenBOrganic @gavlane, John Cherry & Patrick Holden tell us more about the work they do. We'll be amplifying more farming voices in the coming weeks. #FarmingVoices
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🌿 Tomorrow, nature campaigners around the UK ask government to #RestoreNatureNow. 🗣️ Nature doesn't have a voice, but citizens do. 💪 Nearly 80% of public across the political spectrum want fines and regulation to protect the environment. @HughFW.Find out more👇
Help #RestoreNatureNow!.You can take action tomorrow, 28 September, and join @ChrisGPackham + people from all over the UK to demand that our government acts now to fix the #NatureCrisis. Find out how to get involved. 👇.
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"Agriculture has a major role to play but we must stop obsessing over cows and start talking about the fundamental changes that we need to make to our whole food system.". Our Chief Executive @suepritch comments on #IPCCreport
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The #StateOfNature is getting worse. Citizens are clear: they want high environmental standards for food and support for farmers. This is true across the political spectrum. #Lab23 #LPC23 #TheFoodConversation.
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This week, decision-makers gather for the government’s Farm to Fork summit. Will #FarmingVoices be heard? . This film puts farmers at the heart of the debate. What challenges do they face, and how does a resilient approach to farming support real food security?
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The British public don't want lower standards for food, even if it means lower costs. #TheFoodConversation. #CPC23 @Minette_Batters @NFUtweets @maddievitesse @dpcarrington @BBCFarmingToday
Jacob Rees Mogg: "I want cheaper food. I want hormone injected beef from Australia. I've eaten beef in Australia, it's delicious. There's nothing wrong with it.".
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In these volatile times, here’s something business, academic & civic leaders do agree on. We sent an open letter with 100+ signatories to Secretaries of State urging them not to use future trade deals to offshore the UK's climate and nature commitments .
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📽️ We’re so excited to share a brand new film from #TheFoodConversation 🥕. Citizens tell us what they really think about food 🍎. More 👇.
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"We urgently need a long-term & legally defined plan from government" @Riverford's Guy Singh Watson 👏. Latest data for fruit & veg yields show the urgent need for more resilience in food & farming – and for a new govt to lead this. More perspectives in our #FarmingVoices📽️👇
Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers
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Ahead of today’s #FoodSummit at No 10, @suepritch highlights the need for independent voices to balance interests of trade and business – and to urgently address the triple crisis of climate, nature and diet-related ill health in our food system. Read 👇.
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Last week, our CEO @suepritch was delighted to join colleagues and partners in celebrating the brilliant achievements of @theprincesfund over the past 40 years. This includes showcasing those that are working hard to champion farming communities and tackle food insecurity 👏
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"Food security for whom, and for how long?". In a new blog out today, @suepritch asks who will be speaking for public value at No 10’s #FoodSummit, and how can government build a food system that works for citizens, not just shareholders?. Read 👇.
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To build a better food system for a healthier nation, we need to make the best use of our land. 👏 #NationalFoodStrategy. It is possible to restore nature AND produce food on the same patch of land, through a transition to #Agroecology
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🧵Congratulations to the new government and new MPs. Looking forward to working with you as the hard work begins. From farm to fork - food matters, to everyone, everywhere. Farmers, businesses and citizens have ideas to help our leaders make it work better.
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Long-term food security depends on nature & climate recovery, not ever cheaper food. Voters don't want this either. They want a gov who will act to ensure healthy, sustainable & fairly produced food is accessible to everyone. #TheFoodConversation #Lab23.
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💻 We have a new website!. 🌱 You can check out what we do, our current work programmes and where we work. 📚 Or head to the Library to explore our collection of reports, research and videos. 💬 Or to the Conversations section for blogs and interviews.
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In the midst of headlines about weaponising food and the #CostOfLivingCrisis, it's tempting to set aside ambition & revert to binary responses to pressing need. Yet meeting short term need AND long term sustainability is still the only solution that makes sense. @suepritch👇
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📺 NEW FILM RELEASE. Farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce. Local people who can’t afford to live in their own villages. 'God's Lone Country' exposes the very real problems facing rural communities. WATCH FULL FILM HERE:
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🎥 Launching tomorrow: a new film about low income rural Britain. Farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce. Local people who can’t afford to live in their own villages. Transport networks that isolate communities. Stay tuned for more. @Jonesthejourno @TogetherukTV
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🌊 We have seen a groundswell of interest in #Agroecology on the back of our #FarmingforChange report. 🕵️♀️ Help us build the evidence, ideas and community to enable a UK transition to agroecology by 2030. 🌳 Join our #RoutestoAction workshops this Feb:
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The health of people, economy and planet relies on good food produced in healthy soils. Many great conversations about soil going on here at #Groundswell22 . @IFarmers @ADASGroup @SoilAssociation @Soilfit @SoilsAlliance @sixinchessoil @SoilVoices
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Today, we join civil society, farming groups & food businesses to unveil the #HopeFarmStatement, a watershed moment urging the next government to prioritise food & farming within its first 100 days. So, what are its 6 key recommendations? . 🧵.
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Great to hear @herdyshepherd1 calling for a #LandUseFramework - "a plan for how we fit our disparate needs into our landmass" - to deliver multiple outcomes from landscapes and aid decision-making 👉 Here's how one could work👇.
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It's #NationalInclusionWeek, so in response to the struggles of @FarmersWeekly to find diverse voices for their panel today on the future of farming, we decided to start a list. Please add to it and share. @weareagrespect @emilymnorton
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Good to see the topic of ultra-processed food featured on @BBCMorningLive with @xandvt. In a new blog, out today, @DollyvanT reflects on the public debate and political temperature around #UPF. #TheFoodConversation. Read👇.
Ultra-processed foods are being disguised in supermarkets with branding saying they are 'healthy', 'low-fat' and 'high in protein'. @xandvt, in partnership with The @OpenUniversity, exposes the truth behind what's really in so called 'health foods'.
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Our progress report ‘Our Common Ground’ is published today, with proposals for a safe, secure & inclusive food system, flourishing rural economy & sustainable countryside for all. We welcome your views, challenge and advice. Please join the conversation.
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📊 Results from our 'learning from lockdown' survey of 380+ sector professionals:. - 80% want most things to be different in the recovery.- None wanted everything to go back to how it was before. Full results: (Thread)
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1/3 🧵Today: Farmers and environment groups join together to issue a new, strong consensus on the future of farming. Read the declaration 👇. #TogetherForFarming
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Fascinating grazing chat with @FFC_Commission’s @emilyvlinton and @FAIfarms Clare Hill at #Groundswell22 . Livestock are an essential part of a sustainable and fair food system in the UK. @PastureForLife @NFFNUK @LandworkersUK @SoilVoices @IFarmers @SusFoodTrust
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New: @WWF_UK Land of Plenty report calls on UK governments to urgently adopt decarbonisation strategies for agriculture & land use and sets out a blueprint that harnesses #Agroecology and regenerative practices for real change.👏. The evidence is clear🧵👇.
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📢 Great speakers discussing economic #RoutestoAction for #Agroecology in the UK next Tues. 👨🎓 Prof Allan Buckwell @farmingGeorge @vickihird @dr_cscott @johnniebalfour Chris Clark @NFFNUK + Gareth Morgan @SoilAssociation. 🎟️ Register #FarmingforChange
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🍔 How worried are people about junk food?. 📺 Government proposed a 9pm advertising ban last year, then delayed. 💪 Citizens across political parties tell us: they want government to take action. More #TheFoodConversation. @DoctorChrisVT @CernyCaroline
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"We must have brave conversations about hospicing industrial meat and making way for an agroecological farming system.". @dr_cscott on the power and politics at the centre of the meat debate. #Agroecology . Read the full blog 👇 .
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🌍 This week's @IPCC_CH #climatereport is an urgent call to action for the UK food system. 💡@suepritch asks: what radical & practical changes can be made now, to speed a transition to a fair & sustainable future? . @youngb48 @ProfTimJackson @pencheon1 .
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📺NEW FILM RELEASE. Today we launch a short film to expose the very real problems facing rural communities and give a voice to the millions of ordinary people who live in our countryside. Watch the full film here: @Jonesthejourno @TogetherukTV.
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"[Across] political tribes & demographics. most of us want a beautiful countryside that feeds us & is full of nature & beauty" 👏. Great piece from @herdyshepherd1 on a new vision for farming 👉 This is consistent with findings from #TheFoodConversation.
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Fantastic to see #NationalFoodStrategy’s strong emphasis on regenerative farming & #Agroecology . Our report #FarmingforChange shows it can feed a growing UK population healthy food - and provide other solutions too. So, what is agroecology? .And why is it so important?. 1/4 🧵
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🚨 New 📽️👉 Is food working for everyday people? . Citizens in #TheFoodConversation ask each other what they think about food. How does it link to the biggest issues in their lives, from family finances to the NHS? . Tomorrow, more exciting news is coming. Watch this space.
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📚 Report launch - #FarmingSmarter: investing in our future. 🌍 Join us to discuss a radical solution – a new #Agroecology Development Bank – and how it could speed transition to fair and sustainable farming for climate and nature. 🎟️ Thur 25 March 5-6pm.
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Farmers are a force for change. @Howemill is a farmer, educator and Head of Research @pastureforlife, championing agroecology. We’re nominating Nikki as an @EITFood #CROP27 #Agroecology Innovator.
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“We try and build resilience into our farm . I think this is a real message for farmers all across the country.". A timely call from @hanslope in this @SusFoodTrust short. With the right support, farm businesses can produce good food, care for nature AND thrive.
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“The vast majority [of farmers] do believe. farming can deliver on sustainable, nature-friendly food. I do not want to see support for the industry get degraded as it is hijacked by individuals who do not have farmers’ interests at heart.” 👏@JoeWStanley .
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British farming is at a crossroads. It’s more important than ever that farmers’ voices are heard. Thanks @FarmersWeekly & @PhilipCaseFW for amplifying #FarmingVoices & helping to shine a light on the realities of being a farmer right now 👉 Latest 📽️
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“It’s not that citizens want cheap food. It’s that they don’t have any other option.”. FFCC’s @dr_cscott at yday’s #ORFC24 event on changing the narrative from a cost-of-living crisis to a cost-of-profit crisis, sharing insights from #TheFoodConversation.
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1/2 🧵 Today, the first ever UK-wide #CitizensAssembly for nature has published its recommendations. Led by @Natures_Voice, @wwf_uk and @nationaltrust, the #PeoplesPlanForNature calls for a fundamental change in the way we value nature in the UK.
📢 "We have created a plan too big to ignore." 📢. The world's first #PeoplesPlanForNature is calling for immediate action to tackle the UK's nature crisis. Add your voice to the people's call now 👇
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Last week, @herdyshepherd1 laid out what a healthier, greener and fairer future for farming could look like 👉 With a new government at the helm and farming at a crossroads, it's more important than ever that #FarmingVoices are heard 👇
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🎥 Tomorrow we launch our final reports: Our Future in the Land, & accompaniment, Field Guide for the Future. Speakers include @michaelgove @HenryDimbleby @PHE_uk. Join the livestream @ 6pm as Commissioners outline radical & practical proposals for change.
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Excited to hearing from #FarmerAmbassador mixed farmer and veg grower for @AbelandCole @bentheoandrews at #ORFCGlobal launch of #FarmingforChange. 📺 Ben on why #Agroecology makes sense for farmers.🎟️ @SoilAssociation @soilassocscot @weareagrespect
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📚Alongside the report launched yesterday, we published an inspiring collection of case studies, our inquiry findings & stories of innovation. It shows people already making changes needed for healthier people & planet. A glimpse of a better future.
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New blog series! Catch up on the discussion from our #RoutestoAction workshops - radical ideas and practical next steps for anyone interested in #Agroecology, and what it could mean for producers and citizens across UK nations. 1/2
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This call for pragmatic solutions from @RoryStewartUK at #FutureCountryside points to the need for a new way to make decisions about land. The time is ripe for a practical and radical approach - for a #LandUseFramework for England.
Former Defra Minister @RoryStewartUK opens the first main session of #FutureCountryside with a note of realistic caution: there are rarely perfect solutions that can fulfil all objectives and please everyone.
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We are hosting the opening event of the Oxford Farming Conference 2020 with @weareagrespect, starting conversations around diversity and inclusion in farming and the countryside @oxfordfarming. Register here for the free event on 7th January 2020:.
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Thanks to all who came to our report launch event and who joined us online. Watch this space for future opportunities for collaboration and driving change forward. But for now, some food.
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📢 New report: Beyond charitable food aid. In the wake of the PM’s #FoodSummit, the report explores how funders and communities can transition away from delivering food aid - to build real, long-lasting food security. More👇. @FoodPolicyCity @FoodPlacesUK.
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🚨 Out today: New poll shows healthy food is now seen as out of reach for the majority of people. Plus: country’s biggest conversation about food sets off across UK nations to hear from citizens. More👇 #TheFoodConversation.
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Mark Lea from @GreenAcres_Farm: Don't compensate farmers for setting aside space for nature. Nature is fundamental to farming. Protecting nature and producing food are not mutually exclusive activities. In conversation with @FFC_Commission at
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🌳“We’re at a critical moment: climate action needs more than words.”. 🌍@ffinlocostain explains how, by committing to real action on land at #COP26, the UK can unlock solutions to the climate+nature+health challenges of our time. Full 📺 #LandUnlocked
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🧵Feeding Britain from @SusFoodTrust adds to growing weight of evidence for transformative change to the food system 👏. It reflects findings of @FFC_Commission TYFA modelling with @IDDRI_English in #FarmingforChange . What does this look like in the detail?👇#FirFarm22
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Packed out session at #ORFC24: So, is it really all about cheap food? . We'll hear from @Sarah_Pullen_,@FoodEthicsNews's @dan_crossley & @Riverford's Guy Singh-Watson as they unpick the much peddled myth that people *only* want cheap food. #TheFoodConversation @ORFC.👇
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Government action on food can improve the nation’s health, protect the NHS & bolster the economy. Like the smoking ban, citizens support policies that set guardrails for businesses so that public health is put before private profit. #TheFoodConversation.
Our diet is as great a threat to our economy as it is to our health. Nine times as great as previously thought. Whichever government is in power in 10 years time will be crippled by this if we don’t act.
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The UK must transition to a sustainable food system by 2030. We need to back farmers and put them in the driving seat to design and lead the change. Our report sets out radical and practical actions to get us there:.
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Ever wondered what the UK would look like if our food and farming system transitioned to #Agroecology?. Our interactive #LandUnlocked illustration gives a wonderful flavour of a better future: #COP26 #TogetherForOurPlanet
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Help map #RoutestoAction. Land Management workshop Wed 24 Feb 🎟️ 🎟️ . How can one land holding deliver 🍎food 🤒health 🌳nature 🌍climate 💰economic benefits for all?. What does this mean for the UK if applied at a landscape scale? .@CCRI_UK @CLAtweets
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📊New poll data with @Food_Foundation @YouGov reveals 85% of people want to see some of the personal or social changes they've experienced through Covid-19 continue afterwards. significant changes to our relationship with food, family & environment.
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NEW polling: public demands government intervention on healthy food. 70% support gvmt policies to reduce impact of food production on environment . 62% see it as gvmt responsibility to set policy/regs to make eating healthy food easier. @Food_Foundation.
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📢 LAUNCHED TODAY. Our Scotland inquiry report gathers stories from people & organisations making real changes on the ground. It includes examples of cooperation and innovation, land reform, rural mental health initiatives, and ethical dairy farming.
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"The sign outside the farm still reads L Smales and Sons Ltd. But it is Anna, her mother and sister who look after it.". Beautiful, and important, work from @JoanneRCoates . @Matt_Tucker @FarmersOfTheUK @LandworkersUK .
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Great to see our East of England Coordinator (@Alicemidmer & @BBCLookEast) supporting @COFARMHQ in Cambridge. Our recent 'Food Builds Community' research with @LocalTrust - - demonstrates how vital growing spaces are for communities.
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Is the ultra-processed food debate a tipping point for change?. At our event on Monday, @SoilAssociation's @Rob_Percival_ highlighted the need to look beyond individual products to a food system geared towards ultra-processing. More👇 #TheFoodConversation.
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Ask people what they think about food, and they tell you what kind of country they want to live in. Across political divides, citizens want a fairer, healthier, greener Britain. #TheFoodConversation #Lab23 @wesstreeting @ShabanaMahmood @IanByrneMP.
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Back in 2022, we spoke to @bentheoandrews about how farming with nature can build on-farm resilience. “The most successful farms going forward will be the most resilient. We talk about food security for the UK. we should apply the same mindset to our own farms”.
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Join FFCC Chief Exec,@suepritch tomorrow at 11.45am for a @LManagement20 roundtable discussion on the risks and opportunities of changing farm support with @FWAGSouthWest, @DefraGovUK, @SusFoodTrust, @CCRI_UK & @4CommonLand. Register for free here:.
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Tomorrow @timspector @Rob_Percival_ & @JanetCade give evidence to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity inquiry. Findings from #TheFoodConversation show that 3 out of every 4 people want a target set for reducing #UPFs in shops and on the high street. Watch👇
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🍅 So, what do we want from food? #TheFoodConversation. 💪 New report and 2,000-strong national poll find citizens from across the political and demographic spectrum want government to act. ❌ No evidence public worries about 'nanny state'. More 👇.
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For too many people, healthy food is out of reach – and the #CostOfLivingCrisis is making it much worse. #HungryForHealth hears from people forced to make decisions between the food they want and the food they can get. ‘Cheap’ food isn’t working - here’s why🧵👇
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🥕Can the UK grow its own? In his final blog, @martinyarnit argues we need to give producers more bargaining power, double the land area devoted to growing and encourage more people into the sector 👉 @FoodEthicsNews @SoilAssociation @UKSustain @growcomm.
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New @adfreecities study shows advertisers, including big food, target poorer areas 👉 Here, Sophia from #TheFoodConversation talks about the direct link between living in inner city Birmingham and how many junk food ads & outlets her children see 👇
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It's time to build back better. FFCC Chief Exec @suepritch says we must learn from responses to the pandemic to create a more diverse, sustainable and fairer supply chain.
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Big question for our commission over the next 18 months of our inquiry: What is a fair future food, farming and countryside policy? Fair for those wanting #cheapfood, #fairprices for producers, fair for #futuregenerations?
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🗣️Involving citizens in decisions about food has the potential to bring about the ambitious changes we need. 🚨New #TheFoodConversation blog from @FoodEthicsNews @bethheartscake and @dan_crossley on the power of citizen voice. 👇Read in full.
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Over 70% of the UK's soil is managed by farmers. With #Agroecology, farmers can be a force for change - restoring the soil and creating a better future for the people and wildlife that depend on it. A #FieldGuideForTheFuture story for #WorldSoilDay 👇 .
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Our Common Ground progress report was published yesterday, proposing a 10yr transition plan for agriculture to meet SDGs, linking public health with food & farming and better resource alignment. Download the report or read online:
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Our new report and Rough Guide to the Multifunctional #LandUseFramework aim to contribute to important discussions, share tried and tested ideas and build on what works. They're based on practical and grounded experience, working with many partners. Find out more
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Today, @riverford’s #GetFairAboutFarming petition will be debated in parliament, paving the way for fairer supply chain practices to support UK farmers. As our CEO @suepritch says, citizens in #TheFoodConversation also want a better deal for farmers, not cheap food at any cost.
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One hour to #RoutestoAction Changing our Land Management with @Will_Frazer1 + panellists Janet Dwyer @CCRI_UK Patrick Casement @FFC_Commission and Susan Twining @CLAtweets, with contributions from @centreboss + @niels_corfield. #FarmingforChange #LandUse.
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