Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
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🙋Citizens are showing policymakers how food works for them through the Food Strategy’s Citizen Advisory Council (CAC). Here, @foodfoundation.bsky.social Food Ambassador Dominic offers a reminder of what food choice really looks like on the ground.
👉Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
👉Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🙋Citizens are showing policymakers how food works for them through the Food Strategy’s Citizen Advisory Council (CAC). Here, @foodfoundation.bsky.social Food Ambassador Dominic offers a reminder of what food choice really looks like on the ground.
👉Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
👉Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
FFCC was @realfarmed.bsky.social today to host a workshop with farmers to hear their thoughts on how we can make UK farming more resilient.
With multiple, intersecting crises happening at the same time, it's getting harder and harder for farmers and those working in the food chain to respond.
With multiple, intersecting crises happening at the same time, it's getting harder and harder for farmers and those working in the food chain to respond.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
FFCC was @realfarmed.bsky.social today to host a workshop with farmers to hear their thoughts on how we can make UK farming more resilient.
With multiple, intersecting crises happening at the same time, it's getting harder and harder for farmers and those working in the food chain to respond.
With multiple, intersecting crises happening at the same time, it's getting harder and harder for farmers and those working in the food chain to respond.
🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan.
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan.
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
🗣️“We cannot let the food industry essentially create a future customer base for the pharmaceutical industry.” - Katharine Jenner, Executive Director, @oha-updates.bsky.social
🚨Read the full @bigissue.com article: www.bigissue.com/life/health/...
🔗Hear more from citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
🚨Read the full @bigissue.com article: www.bigissue.com/life/health/...
🔗Hear more from citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🗣️“We cannot let the food industry essentially create a future customer base for the pharmaceutical industry.” - Katharine Jenner, Executive Director, @oha-updates.bsky.social
🚨Read the full @bigissue.com article: www.bigissue.com/life/health/...
🔗Hear more from citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
🚨Read the full @bigissue.com article: www.bigissue.com/life/health/...
🔗Hear more from citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
🐞On Tuesday FFCC’s Countries Coordinator Georgia King joined farmers and ecologists in Stirling for the @britishecologicalsociety.org’s workshop ‘Creating a Resilient Future for Farming in Scotland.'
🌱Themes reinforced that people want fairness in food and farming: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
🌱Themes reinforced that people want fairness in food and farming: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🐞On Tuesday FFCC’s Countries Coordinator Georgia King joined farmers and ecologists in Stirling for the @britishecologicalsociety.org’s workshop ‘Creating a Resilient Future for Farming in Scotland.'
🌱Themes reinforced that people want fairness in food and farming: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
🌱Themes reinforced that people want fairness in food and farming: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
🌍 It’s good to see COP30 Brazil opening with the Belém Declaration, a groundbreaking pledge that brings recognises the role of farmers, fishers and Indigenous Peoples in responding to climate change, as stewards of the land 👉 ipes-food.org/cop30-world-...
COP30 - World leaders pledge to put hunger and poverty at the heart of climate action - IPES-Food
COP30 opens with breakthrough Belém Declaration, led by Brazil, linking climate action to hunger eradication, food access, and social protection.
ipes-food.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🌍 It’s good to see COP30 Brazil opening with the Belém Declaration, a groundbreaking pledge that brings recognises the role of farmers, fishers and Indigenous Peoples in responding to climate change, as stewards of the land 👉 ipes-food.org/cop30-world-...
“There’s this myth that you can’t get kids to eat good, healthy, nutritious food… It’s not true. You can do it, and kids like it.” - Prime Minister Keir Starmer
🎥Watch Keir Starmer on ITV's Lorraine: www.itv.com/watch/lorrai...
👉Hear more about what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
🎥Watch Keir Starmer on ITV's Lorraine: www.itv.com/watch/lorrai...
👉Hear more about what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
So, what do we really want from food?
Latest findings from The Food Conversation
ffcc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“There’s this myth that you can’t get kids to eat good, healthy, nutritious food… It’s not true. You can do it, and kids like it.” - Prime Minister Keir Starmer
🎥Watch Keir Starmer on ITV's Lorraine: www.itv.com/watch/lorrai...
👉Hear more about what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
🎥Watch Keir Starmer on ITV's Lorraine: www.itv.com/watch/lorrai...
👉Hear more about what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
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Great to have Minister White here describing the progress the UK is making, the leadership were taking in the world, when it is urgently needed, and setting out serious and practical next steps. #GAevent
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great to have Minister White here describing the progress the UK is making, the leadership were taking in the world, when it is urgently needed, and setting out serious and practical next steps. #GAevent
The excellent Chris van Tulleken gave evidence to the DHSC committee this morning, highlighting the way big food companies engineer harmful, addictive foods – and then aggresively market them to children and adults alike.
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The excellent Chris van Tulleken gave evidence to the DHSC committee this morning, highlighting the way big food companies engineer harmful, addictive foods – and then aggresively market them to children and adults alike.
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
👩🌾In our new #FieldGuideForTheFuture, we talk to Harry Epsom and Frederik Lean Hansen about why they started Abunda – and what they think it can bring to the farming sector.
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
👩🌾In our new #FieldGuideForTheFuture, we talk to Harry Epsom and Frederik Lean Hansen about why they started Abunda – and what they think it can bring to the farming sector.
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...
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Very much looking forward to reading this, thanks to recommendation of @timjackson.org.uk The post-truth world, that glorifies ignorance and moral relativism has been carefully cultivated for decades. Time to fight back.
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Very much looking forward to reading this, thanks to recommendation of @timjackson.org.uk The post-truth world, that glorifies ignorance and moral relativism has been carefully cultivated for decades. Time to fight back.
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Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption.
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption.
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
Excellent piece from Rosa Silverman in @telegraphnews.bsky.social today on the huge cost of unhealthy food to people, communities and places across the UK – featuring our Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown.
Read it here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
Read it here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Excellent piece from Rosa Silverman in @telegraphnews.bsky.social today on the huge cost of unhealthy food to people, communities and places across the UK – featuring our Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown.
Read it here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
Read it here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
🗣️How can farmers get their voices heard better?
🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest.
Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest.
Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🗣️How can farmers get their voices heard better?
🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest.
Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest.
Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
📣Calling all farmers, farm workers and people working across the industry
Join us for a paid, interactive workshop at @realfarmed.bsky.social on Tues 25 Nov to discuss how farming and food can stay resilient in a changing world.
🎟️Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uk-...
Join us for a paid, interactive workshop at @realfarmed.bsky.social on Tues 25 Nov to discuss how farming and food can stay resilient in a changing world.
🎟️Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uk-...
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣Calling all farmers, farm workers and people working across the industry
Join us for a paid, interactive workshop at @realfarmed.bsky.social on Tues 25 Nov to discuss how farming and food can stay resilient in a changing world.
🎟️Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uk-...
Join us for a paid, interactive workshop at @realfarmed.bsky.social on Tues 25 Nov to discuss how farming and food can stay resilient in a changing world.
🎟️Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uk-...
❓How can UK nations lead the way when it comes to fair, healthy and sustainable food and farming?
Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.
👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...
Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.
👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
❓How can UK nations lead the way when it comes to fair, healthy and sustainable food and farming?
Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.
👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...
Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.
👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...
🍔This week, @ashorguk.bsky.social, @aha-uk.bsky.social, & @oha-updates.bsky.social published a new report ‘Killer Tactics 2'.
Read it here: obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2025/10/23/k...
Find out how the report links to what citizens have told us in #TheFoodConversation: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Read it here: obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2025/10/23/k...
Find out how the report links to what citizens have told us in #TheFoodConversation: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🍔This week, @ashorguk.bsky.social, @aha-uk.bsky.social, & @oha-updates.bsky.social published a new report ‘Killer Tactics 2'.
Read it here: obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2025/10/23/k...
Find out how the report links to what citizens have told us in #TheFoodConversation: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Read it here: obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2025/10/23/k...
Find out how the report links to what citizens have told us in #TheFoodConversation: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
💧How can farmers manage slurry to support nature while sustaining productive land?
🎥Watch the full discussion here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🎥Watch the full discussion here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
💧How can farmers manage slurry to support nature while sustaining productive land?
🎥Watch the full discussion here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🎥Watch the full discussion here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🗣️How does language shape the world around us?
👀 Watch our full session at The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference – ‘Get real about growth: how better food, homes and communities can renew Britain’ - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
👀 Watch our full session at The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference – ‘Get real about growth: how better food, homes and communities can renew Britain’ - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🗣️How does language shape the world around us?
👀 Watch our full session at The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference – ‘Get real about growth: how better food, homes and communities can renew Britain’ - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
👀 Watch our full session at The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference – ‘Get real about growth: how better food, homes and communities can renew Britain’ - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
Everyone knows how important food is. It’s critical to life and how we take care of each other.
🍓Hear more from citizens and read The Food Strategy here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
@fao.org #WorldFoodDay
🍓Hear more from citizens and read The Food Strategy here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
@fao.org #WorldFoodDay
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Everyone knows how important food is. It’s critical to life and how we take care of each other.
🍓Hear more from citizens and read The Food Strategy here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
@fao.org #WorldFoodDay
🍓Hear more from citizens and read The Food Strategy here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
@fao.org #WorldFoodDay
🗣 Great to hear from Defra Minister @angelaeagle1.bsky.social and see so many politicians from across the house at the Farming APPG reception in Parliament this morning – organised by FFCC in our role as secretariat.
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🗣 Great to hear from Defra Minister @angelaeagle1.bsky.social and see so many politicians from across the house at the Farming APPG reception in Parliament this morning – organised by FFCC in our role as secretariat.
The excellent Sarah Langford at our panel at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference earlier this month, on why investment alone isn’t enough to create change that people and communities can feel.
Follow this link to watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
Follow this link to watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
October 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The excellent Sarah Langford at our panel at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference earlier this month, on why investment alone isn’t enough to create change that people and communities can feel.
Follow this link to watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
Follow this link to watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...
🤔 Is it really people’s “choice” to eat bad food?
🍫Here Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member Martin reflects on how big food companies engineer decisions about food through price, packaging and marketing...
🍫Here Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member Martin reflects on how big food companies engineer decisions about food through price, packaging and marketing...
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🤔 Is it really people’s “choice” to eat bad food?
🍫Here Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member Martin reflects on how big food companies engineer decisions about food through price, packaging and marketing...
🍫Here Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member Martin reflects on how big food companies engineer decisions about food through price, packaging and marketing...