Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
With your help, we are bringing people together to find practical ways to improve our climate, nature, health and economy.
Citizens have been travelling the UK for the ‘What Works Here Inquiries’ – a citizen-led investigation that aims to help shape the government’s new Food Strategy.
Hear more from citizens here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
Hear more from citizens here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Citizens have been travelling the UK for the ‘What Works Here Inquiries’ – a citizen-led investigation that aims to help shape the government’s new Food Strategy.
Hear more from citizens here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
Hear more from citizens here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
🙋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...
🌿 As John Cherry says, farmers are on the frontline and are often the first to feel shifting weather patterns. Rural communities – both here in the UK & around the world – are also already living with the realities of climate change, as challenges like flooding become more common and serious.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🌿 As John Cherry says, farmers are on the frontline and are often the first to feel shifting weather patterns. Rural communities – both here in the UK & around the world – are also already living with the realities of climate change, as challenges like flooding become more common and serious.
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-...
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...
🍎 Last week, FFCC’s Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown joined hundreds of people in Stockholm for the launch of EAT-Lancet 2.0 - a global conversation about fairer food for all.
📸 Swipe for a few moments from the event.
@thelancet.com
📸 Swipe for a few moments from the event.
@thelancet.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🍎 Last week, FFCC’s Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown joined hundreds of people in Stockholm for the launch of EAT-Lancet 2.0 - a global conversation about fairer food for all.
📸 Swipe for a few moments from the event.
@thelancet.com
📸 Swipe for a few moments from the event.
@thelancet.com
🗣️ “We have to put resilience into the business, and how do you do that? You have to put carbon into the soil.”
Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🗣️ “We have to put resilience into the business, and how do you do that? You have to put carbon into the soil.”
Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🤔 What does a fair food system look like? And what should our leaders be looking to achieve when they make food policy?
Find out here: ffcc.co.uk/news-and-pre...
Find out here: ffcc.co.uk/news-and-pre...
October 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🤔 What does a fair food system look like? And what should our leaders be looking to achieve when they make food policy?
Find out here: ffcc.co.uk/news-and-pre...
Find out here: ffcc.co.uk/news-and-pre...
🎙️ Out now: We Need To Talk About… Net Zero
Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
October 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎙️ Out now: We Need To Talk About… Net Zero
Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
💡New blog: Unlocking Pride
🏡 Last week, the government announced its new Pride of Place strategy – putting communities in the driving seat and committing more than £5bn to 250 places across England, Wales & Scotland.
🥕 How does food fit into all of this? Read the blog 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🏡 Last week, the government announced its new Pride of Place strategy – putting communities in the driving seat and committing more than £5bn to 250 places across England, Wales & Scotland.
🥕 How does food fit into all of this? Read the blog 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
💡New blog: Unlocking Pride
🏡 Last week, the government announced its new Pride of Place strategy – putting communities in the driving seat and committing more than £5bn to 250 places across England, Wales & Scotland.
🥕 How does food fit into all of this? Read the blog 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🏡 Last week, the government announced its new Pride of Place strategy – putting communities in the driving seat and committing more than £5bn to 250 places across England, Wales & Scotland.
🥕 How does food fit into all of this? Read the blog 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...