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Chief Executive @FFC_Commission . Organic farming & conservation Llananant Farm. Governor @RoyalAgUni . Trustee @COFARMHQ . Views own etc. On. A. Mission.

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Sue Pritchard
5 years
My 90 year old Mum sang her little heart out, on her doorstep in the middle of nowhere (with the bottle-fed lambs joining in!) #SingForWales @SingWales #NHSThankYou
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1 year
Every woman everywhere quietly hat-tipping the Princess Royal, choosing the outfit that lets her wear a comfy shoe @caitlinmoran
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1 year
I dunno… If you can’t run a business *without* trashing the planet (and our health) perhaps you shouldn’t be in business?
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4 years
My mum’s proper fed up with lockdown now, so we invited her round for tea. She did her hair and everything...
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5 years
Listening to the Prime Minister and Steve Baker on #wato saying they *disagree* with 11 Justices of the Supreme Court is like listening to my kids telling me they disagree with going to bed at bedtime. Yeah whatevs...
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6 months
Book that holiday - the wool cheque is a-coming!! (that’s for about forty organic fleeces) 🙄
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Sue Pritchard
11 months
Let's be completely clear. This is not a 'broken' food system. This is a system brilliantly designed to enable *some* businesses to 'financialise' food so that they make enormous profits from it. And society picks up the true costs.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
A bit of a long thread here on the leaked food strategy. So it reads like it shares many aspirations with its critics. More regenerative, carbon and nature positive farming, with support to farmers and food business to innovate to tackle big global issues;
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Sue Pritchard
8 months
🧵 I’m a miner’s daughter from the Rhondda. 40 years ago, I lived through the Miners Strike, collecting for food parcels at my university to take back to my community in the Valleys. Wales *cannot* afford - economically, socially or psychologically - another botched transition.
@Merry_Meredith
Andrew Meredith
9 months
Good evening from Carmarthen mart where there's an impressive turnout for the second meeting of Welsh farmers to discuss protests
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
#EnglishPastoral is Book of the Week on @BBCRadio4 . Drop everything, grab a cuppa & listen to the most beautiful & compelling case for change in farming I've read for years - then dip into the technical & economic evidence in our latest reports
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
This is truly worrying. Widespread antimicrobial resistance is in the top three of global risks, just like a pandemic was. Common ailments/procedures will become life-threatening again. Yet another reason to phase out intensive livestock.
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Sue Pritchard
11 months
Asked by British Sugar, who has had 13 years notice to work with their farmers to plan for alternatives, who made £1.4billion profit this year, and who are currently in dispute with farmers over the beet contract price. This isn’t science, it’s greed.
@WildlifeTrusts
The Wildlife Trusts
11 months
For the 4th year in a row, @DefraGovUK has been asked to allow use of a banned pesticide. 1 tsp of this poison is enough to kill 1.25m bees. 🐝 Banned chemicals have no place in a #WilderFuture . ☠ Ask the Farming Minister to say #NoToNeonics 👉
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Sue Pritchard
5 years
Much to discuss here but this binary thinking just polarises debate. A sensible land use plan supports farming in harmony with nature, wild spaces & habitat corridors; adapts to climate change; connects people & nature; backs a just rural transition.
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
Me in today’s ⁦⁦ @guardian ⁩ “Of course, we must manage the risk to food security as well as tackle the nature, climate and health crises.”
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
There are two shocking aspects to this piece: 1. That this advice should be even contemplated in the middle of winter and a global pandemic and 2. The ultra processed food in that basket is exactly NOT what people need to keep healthy.
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
People say “the system is broken”. But they’re not looking hard enough for who’s benefiting right now - like the commodity traders, the fert and chem companies… As one farmer says “Just who IS being farmed here…?”👇🏼
@RobHavard1
Phepson Angus
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Do not feed these industries. They are parasites slowly sucking the life out of and then killing our family farms, our soils, our environments and then keeping all the spoils for themselves. #GoOrganic let's start a shift and starve these parasites to death.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Happy to join colleagues in writing this letter to ⁦ @guardian ⁩. We need more thoughtful, balanced discussion, taking a range of metrics and needs into account, for climate, nature, health & wellbeing, and thriving rural economies.
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1 year
AND she gets to ride a horse back to the palace! Top royalling…
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
Hot off the press news from @FFC_Commission . We're delighted to have received a three-year core funding grant from @EsmeeFairbairn to continue our work. Huge thanks from all of us to this far-sighted, inspiring, and supportive funder. And there's more...
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Sue Pritchard
3 months
The greatest gains in public health come from tackling the social & commercial determinants of ill health - poverty, housing, clean air, safe communities, healthy food, decent work. a fair wage... That’s what *preventative* health care looks like. #FutureofBritain
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Sue Pritchard
3 months
Every. Single. Thing. He. Says ⬇️ (ignoring the clickbait headline)
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
Our @FFC_Commission research tells us citizens want a fair food system. The only people banging on about ‘cheap food’ are economists/politicians/businesses who are curiously silent when asked about who pays the true cost of cheap food.
@Minette_Batters
minette batters
3 years
I’m used to being described in fairly colourful language - hyperbolic is new one! Along with Lawson, Hannan and Colville this is painful reading, out of touch with the modern world and still banging on about cheap. High time we started to talking about the true value of our food.
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
"If people replace fish, meat, eggs and cheese with plant-based ultra-processed foods, it might actually do us – and the planet – more harm than good."
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Sue Pritchard
6 years
In Oslo, when we come upon this apt quotation
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
Important points in this letter to @FT from @FFC_Commission commissioner @ProfTimJackson @CUSP_uk and colleague @ryefordmill @PastureForLife - ones we aim to deal with in our work for a transparent, inclusive & fair Land Use Decisions Framework
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Food inflation ⬆️ 16% - Cargill profits ⬆️ 23% Energy bills ⬆️ 54% - Shell profits double to £32bn Water bills ⬆️ - water company profits ⬆️ £2.8bn Diet related ill-health ⬆️ Fuel poverty ⬆️ On track for 2.5 degrees global warming from fossil fuels River ecosystems dying
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Sue Pritchard
4 months
Delighted with this appointment. I know Sir Patrick is concerned about the ‘chemical cocktail’ in our environment. Look forward to exploring how sustainable farming practices can help reduce or eliminate synthetic chemicals in land, water, air and food.
@10DowningStreet
UK Prime Minister
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Sir Patrick Vallance KCB has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk .
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
A 🧵. There were many curious claims in the Prime Minister's speech – stopping taxes on flying and meat, ending compulsory car sharing & having to sort your rubbish into seven bins. Like taking credit for banning larks from takeaway menus, none of these things were happening.
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
HRH Prince of Wales making the clear connections between sustainable food and farming, our health & wellbeing, and the risks to diverse, rural economies, without urgent and thoughtful action to tackle the nature and climate crises #r4today
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Sue Pritchard
5 months
“What you love the most is what you should do” says Robin Wall Kimmerer to @herdyshepherd1 answering the question what can we do to help tackle the challenges in front of us. “Raise a garden, raise your children, raise a ruckus” #HayFestival
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
It’s a sector worth £8trillion, globally. If too many people can’t afford to buy good, fresh, healthy food and farmer incomes are shrinking, where’s all the money…? 🤔
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
“The profiteering crisis isn’t just a few bad apples – it’s systemic across our broken economy. Entire industries are …taking advantage of a crisis, resulting in the spiralling prices of goods we all need.” And 47% of UK farmers earn less than £20k pa…
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
An unexpected bonus of our Ethical Shellfish Co fishy treats has been discovering @PuffinPackaging . Incredible sheep’s wool insulation that kept the shellfish perfectly cold. But it’s too good to compost! What else can we do with it?
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
🎉🥂 Twenty seven days late but at last she’s arrived! A filly, by Craikhow Hall Jensen out of ForgeWood Marigold. @RBST @SuffolkHorseS @RareBreedChris 60 mins old…
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Sue Pritchard
6 years
The UN's rapporteur says that #poverty in the UK is “not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster.” Just let yourself take that in, and then ask yourself how we got to this shameful place.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Liz Truss is right. “Vested interests dressed up as think tanks” is a serious issue that undermines public discourse. I’m sure she’d agree, then, that the media should stop inviting or amplifying those who aren’t transparent about their funding sources. This might help.
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
The literal opposite of what we should be aiming for in future trade deals - supporting all trading partners esp developing countries to raise & strengthen standards for healthy, fair & sustainable food and farming systems
@PAN_UK
PAN UK
4 years
NEW REPORT reveals US pushing to weaken UK #pesticide standards. If UK Government gives way there will be larger amounts of more toxic chemicals in our food & environmentally-damaging pesticides could be reauthorised. Take action against #toxictrade at
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Responsible food businesses and citizens want the same thing. For governments to use their powers to legislate and regulate sensibly, to limit harms and to level the playing field for fairer, healthier, more sustainable food and farming. Can our politicians catch up in time?
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Sue Pritchard
9 months
@KateBurkeNHS ...and 60s... also have own pitchfork.
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
Apparently, because “the sector operates in a “complex, ever-evolving commercial and political landscape” it should be left to sort itself out. What an abdication of leadership by govt to help shape a vital sector.
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
@PenmanMirror @docrussjackson This week, I was offered Carmarthen (78 miles away) and colleagues were offered Aberdeen (from Sheffield) EbbwVale (from London) Cardiff (from Bournemouth). It’s utterly dysfunctional.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
A thread 🧵 before I go away on hols. In a rather unwanted moment of deja vu, the last few weeks have reminded me of the early days of FFCC, when polarising, populist and simplistic narratives were everywhere.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Adam Smith knew: big corporations need strong boundaries to stop them externalising their true costs. If govt decides not to set boundaries, it ends up paying in other ways - for health care for diet related illness, cleaning up the environment, benefits for low paid workers...
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
I’m grumpy about a lot of things atm tbf. But right now, sitting out front in the sun, with a glass of gewurztraminer, with my dogs and duck, watching my Herefords amble round the paddock, playing with the pigs and goats… I’m counting my blessings.
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
The point is this: when under-regulated markets are allowed to provide foundational elements of our economy - food, housing, water, energy - we cannot trust them to prioritise social and ecological purposes over their own profits. To misquote Clinton: it’s the ideology, stupid.
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
There's lots to like in this story - but this “We’ve been driving around in Range Rovers and going on skiing holidays..." boils my fruit! Not round here we don't! Many uplands, small & medium farms are facing serious crises, not solved by plans like these
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
Global agriculture is extensively subsidized. Who are the real beneficiaries? Primary producers & growers? Processors? Retailers? Consumers? Investors? It is opaque, complex & damaging. It needs root & branch change, not simplistic ‘othering’.
@GeorgeMonbiot
George Monbiot
3 years
Livestock graziers in the UK are entirely dependent on the taxpayer. Why don't they ever tell us this?
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Sue Pritchard
9 months
Good luck today @Riverford . Your #Getfairaboutfarming simple ask - that supermarkets should honour their contracts with farmers - has cut through brilliantly to force a Commons debate. And #TheFoodConversation tells us that citizens support a fair deal for farmers to farm well.
@Riverford
Riverford
9 months
The view’s a little different today… #GetFairAboutFarming
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Sue Pritchard
9 months
A just transition for farmers could be funded by “a windfall tax on agri-food companies to support them”. Excellent idea from European Greens. The commodity traders continue to pull in eye watering profits while farmers live with all the risk. via @ft
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
More evidence demonstrating that investing in diverse small and medium sized enterprises pays real dividends in a just transition to more sustainable farming
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Could one answer possibly be that governments allow directors to externalise the actual costs of their businesses, so as to maximise returns to shareholders, instead of acting first and foremost in the public (and the planet's) interests?
@BBCBreakfast
BBC Breakfast
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'I just can't comprehend the fact that we are discharging raw sewage into our waterways' Comedian and angler Paul Whitehouse spoke to #BBCBreakfast after investigating the state of our rivers and seas
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
‼️We’re hiring! Come join us at the Food Farming & Countryside Commission in our mission to turn radical ideas into practical actions for fairer more sustainable food and farming, & flourishing rural economies. There are two posts… 1/3
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
@herdyshepherd1 Our latest research on affordability, and the place of food in poorer communities (with @LocalTrust and #BigLocal ) absolutely bears this out. They are outraged that they are used for what is essentially the justification and marketing of a cheap food business model.
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
When one of your hand-reared robin chicks hears you cleaning the water trough in a field and demands a snack… 🥰
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Sue Pritchard
8 months
Guy is right. “The answer to all this is to pay farmers fairly, and give them clarity and pride in the role they must play in a well-planned, well-regulated green transition.”
@Riverford
Riverford
8 months
Guy's news: Trouble in the Shires Farming isn’t paying. In many areas, it hasn’t paid for years. Farmers have tightened their belts, drained their savings, borrowed, and sent their partners off the farm to work. ➡️
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
Nailing it 👇🏼 “What we choose to eat isn’t just a personal choice. The things we pick from the shelves... (and how much we pay for them) add up to a world-shaping message that ...determines what farmers choose to grow and how they must do it”
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1 is an intelligent and passionate advocate for a more sustainable future for British farming and the working countryside. I’m honoured to have made a small contribution to his @BBCr4today guest edit.
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James Rebanks
3 years
So as guest editor I’ve asked @BBCr4today to focus on the following themes for tomorrow’s show...
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
I meet SO many brilliant women farmers or partners in their family farms: but great to see it acknowledged #shewhodaresfarms > ‘We’re stewards of our land’: the rise of female farmers
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
THIS THIS THIS 👇
@Cornucopia_Inst
Cornucopia Institute
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What are your thoughts on this quote? We'd love to hear from you!
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
I 💚 Andy Cato “…we need to do everything we can to redesign our food system around diversity, nature’s foundational principle of health and resilience… We know everything we need to know”
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
My weekly dose of ⁦ @Riverford ⁩ inspiration. “It won’t be easy, but it is doable, urgently needed and could be beautiful”
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
Much chicken production is now concentrated in a small area, around the Wye Valley. Super efficient for the producers and, they argue, cheaper chicken for the customer. But it is awful for local communities, it's bad for animal welfare and it is destroying the environment.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
It’s a great read, combining Henry & Jemima’s gift for storytelling with the thorough research that backed up his National Food Strategy. Now he’s out of Defra, gloves off, will this provoke governments to act on our unfair, unhealthy, unsustainable food system? #Ravenous
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
If the government wants to help people to eat better, its main priority should be ending what is often called food poverty – more accurately described as poverty, full stop. | Julian Baggini
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Sue Pritchard
9 months
Important piece 👇🏼. Grateful to @JoeWStanley for speaking for us farmers who want a just transition to a more sustainable future for food and farming. My thoughts here
@DeSmog
DeSmog
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🔴Revealed: The climate denial network behind the 'No Farmers, No Food' campaign ✍️by @ClareCarlile @AdamBarnett13 & @CookePhoebe
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1 draws much needed attention to the huge issues shaping the future of food, farming & countryside, post-Brexit, and also responding & adapting to the climate, nature & health crises. Governments must join the dots. This what they can do. #r4today 👇🏼
@BBCr4today
BBC Radio 4 Today
3 years
"It's a once in a generation opportunity" Our guest editor, the farmer and writer James Rebanks, says that post Brexit we need to make sure we get our food from "a robust, resilient, sustainable system that looks after our landscapes properly" #R4Today
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
@JohnJCrace It’s the Bullingdon defence, isn’t it? “I’ll pay up because I can, but I’m not responsible or accountable, nor will I change my behaviour.”
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
At ⁦ @CPRE #Hedgerow reception, hearing from ⁦ @SueHayman1 ⁩ that boosting hedgerows by 40% would create 25000 new jobs over 30 years. That’s as well as sequestering carbon, restoring nature and biodiversity, providing shelter and much more… #NationalNatureService
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Sue Pritchard
5 years
“We will always be guided by the science” says @DefraGovUK Sec Theresa Villiers on GM and pesticides. Yes. And let us not forget that science also gave us DDT, lead in petrol and thalidomide. We must also be guided by the precautionary principle. #OFC20 #ORFC20
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
This is extremely disappointing. As a @NFUCymru member, I’ll make my views known. Are you really advising farmers to stay out of a national environment scheme, for Wales’s long term prosperity and resilience, and instead take your lead from extractive & volatile global markets?
@BBCWalesNews
BBC Wales News
1 year
NFU Cymru said the proposals were too complicated and 'did not make business sense'
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Sue Pritchard
4 months
Shocking report from @Food_Foundation . Food targeted at children is making them sick. When we show this to citizens in #TheFoodConversation they are astonished and angry. They want governments to protect children from businesses who make and market junk food for (huge) profit 1/3
@Food_Foundation
The Food Foundation
4 months
📢 Our latest report highlights the disconcerting deterioration in children's health. 📏 Height of 5 year-olds falling since 2013 🩺 Obesity among 10-11 year-olds up 30% 💉 Type 2 diabetes among under 25s up 22% Read more: ➡️ @jamieoliver
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Sue Pritchard
5 years
At @theRSAorg AGM last night, some asked, what DO @XRFarmers want? So we popped across to ask them. Turns out they want the same as us. 1 Take the climate and nature crisis seriously 2 Involve farmers AND citizens 3. Make a plan for a fair and fast transition @FFC_Commission 1/2
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
This 👇🏼. Agroecology and regenerative farming integrate nature into the farmed landscape, restore biodiversity, reduce emissions and sequester carbon, reduce or eliminate synthetic chemicals and pollution, provide healthy, seasonal, whole foods AND viable farm livelihoods
@wigsandwords
Sarah Langford
3 years
Loads of farmers are ‘encouraging and supporting wildlife on-farm through replanting hedgerows as well as giving over unproductive land to nature’. None call it rewilding. It’s not rewilding. It’s part of farming @NFFNUK
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
This this and thrice this 👉🏼 “[Defra has]…framed plastic waste as litter created by the public. The real problem is the production of plastic by an immensely powerful global petrochemical industry that produces the materials to make the world’s plastics.”
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Sue Pritchard
8 months
Helpful context. For example, I produce food off almost entirely ‘habitat’ land - organic, native breed beef and lamb which thrives on ‘unimproved’ species rich grassland.
@CoedCadw
Woodland Trust Cymru
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🧵Farms aren't required to plant 10% of their land. Only to bring their existing tree & woodland cover up to 10%. On average, farms in Wales already have 6-7% tree cover. Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Press Release @CoedCadw @WoodlandTrust 1/
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
“We need a huge dose of education, education, education to reverse years of brainwashing by big food” Tim Spector. Possibly this education also needs to be in power, politics and critical thinking...
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1 year
First panel - this fabulous group asking “is it time to certify regenerative agriculture?” How would it work and - importantly - who would benefit? #Groundswell23
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Sue Pritchard
1 year
Today, we publish the first of our extraordinary and inspiring insights from the start of our national #foodconversation with citizens, starting with Birmingham and Cambridgeshire.
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Sue Pritchard
3 months
If this is the case, yet another reason why we need a clear impact assessment of ELMs
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Ian Davis
3 months
I'm hearing increasing examples of farms destroying old permanent pasture to sow herbal leys to benefit from the money on offer from @Ruralpay under #SFI Which of the @DefraGovUK public goods does releasing that #SoilCarbon and killing that #biodiversity tick? 🫣
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
I still have six bags of organic wool in my barn, as it will cost me more to take them to the depot than I’ll get for them (not to mention the cost of shearing). High time we understood the real value of wool.
@NFUCountryside
Countryside
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Renewable, recyclable and really rather comfortable - British wool really is a wonder fibre. ➡️ Check out our A-Z of #British #wool
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Sue Pritchard
6 months
@LaurieJ That’s it. Oh and don’t forget the £60 it cost to shear them.
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
And it's why we have to stop saying subsidy, and instead talk about *investing* in fair, sustainable food and farming - as we do in any other critical sector, like energy, housing, infrastructure, health, education, defence... The language we use matters #FarmingSmarter
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James Rebanks
4 years
So this is what I think about the policy announcement There is quite a lot of hope in it (and the people working on it behind the scenes are good) - but it is shrouded in vagueness
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
@nationaltrust @Tim_C66 @spectator We are currently on hols in Pembrokeshire - making great use of our membership here. Though the Bosherston lily ponds looked a bit woke to me and the Stackpole Gardens had an arguably unnecessary diversity of flowers on show.
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Sue Pritchard
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On #Radio4Today , @wesstreeting is rightly angry at the state of children's dental, mental and physical health. How about tackling the root cause - the businesses that make, market and profit from sugary drinks, junk food, and vapes? It is what citizens want. #TheFoodConversation
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
On @r4Today @HenryDimbleby summing up key messages in #NationalFoodStrategy . To break the junk food cycle, and remove health inequalities govt needs to level the playing field so healthy food is easily available for everyone everywhere. 2022 must be the year when government acts
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Sue Pritchard
3 months
Thank you @herdyshepherd1 for drawing attention to the slippery arguments being deployed to deflect discussions on the need for change, and how to change, in a fair and sustainable way. There is no food security without equal attention to environmental and economic resilience👇🏼
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James Rebanks
3 months
I care greatly about ‘food security’ but it’s being used in really crap and childish arguments that nothing can change on farms With great design and imagination we can get much more from our landscapes - so simply don’t believe people that say any change is bad news
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
Good to hear #r4today from @herdyshepherd1 in Cumbria this morning. @EdenSwimmer & @LinesMartin very clear that food & farmers in England needs a clearer more sustainable vision to plan for. But what’s the impact of @LiamFox vision of freer trade & cheaper food? Thread
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Sue Pritchard
3 years
@economeager Good analogy. Of course you can represent landscapes in different ways and at different scales - the natural, the social, the political - all useful and important. But if a map veers far from material reality it’s pretty useless, even dangerous.
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Sue Pritchard
2 years
So, @nadhimzahawi tells us @Shell have to keep their excess profits to be able to invest in *checks hearing* increasing production of North Sea oil? I have a better idea. Tax windfall profits, reduce bills, direct funding to insulation & renewables. #NetZero #COP27 #r4today
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Sue Pritchard
4 years
I hope and expect there is a long queue of feminist academics limbering up to compare and contrast the different kinds of leadership we’re seeing around the world right now...
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Sky News
4 years
'We're just having a bit of an earthquake here.' Watch the moment a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit during a live interview with New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Read more here:
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