Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
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With your help, we are bringing people together to find practical ways to improve our climate, nature, health and economy.
By making recommendations that will help government, they will build on the great work people and communities are already doing when it comes to food.
Find out more about how citizens are shaping the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
Find out more about how citizens are shaping the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
By making recommendations that will help government, they will build on the great work people and communities are already doing when it comes to food.
Find out more about how citizens are shaping the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
Find out more about how citizens are shaping the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
Drawing on their own expertise and experience of food, the Council will feed their findings back to policymakers, identifying what’s already working well in places around the county.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Drawing on their own expertise and experience of food, the Council will feed their findings back to policymakers, identifying what’s already working well in places around the county.
Here Ruth, a student from Kent, shares some thoughts and insights from the two days she spent in Cornwall. Ruth and her fellow Citizen Advisory Council members heard from people working to transform food in the region and visited projects that are having a real impact on their communities.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Here Ruth, a student from Kent, shares some thoughts and insights from the two days she spent in Cornwall. Ruth and her fellow Citizen Advisory Council members heard from people working to transform food in the region and visited projects that are having a real impact on their communities.
This month, CAC members have been travelling the UK for the ‘What Works Here Inquiries’, using their expertise and experience to investigate how national government can build on what’s already working well locally when it comes to food.
➡️See more on the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
➡️See more on the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This month, CAC members have been travelling the UK for the ‘What Works Here Inquiries’, using their expertise and experience to investigate how national government can build on what’s already working well locally when it comes to food.
➡️See more on the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
➡️See more on the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
🪞Reflections like this show why citizen voices are crucial to fixing food – they reveal the realities of the food system that can often get overlooked.
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🪞Reflections like this show why citizen voices are crucial to fixing food – they reveal the realities of the food system that can often get overlooked.
🍟In Dominic’s estate, unhealthy options aren’t a preference – they’re just what’s available and affordable. The same is true for communities across the UK. What can look like choice from the outside is often shaped by the limits people face day to day.
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🍟In Dominic’s estate, unhealthy options aren’t a preference – they’re just what’s available and affordable. The same is true for communities across the UK. What can look like choice from the outside is often shaped by the limits people face day to day.
More on our work on farming 👇
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Farming Futures
Our work for a fairer, healthier, more sustainable farming future.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
More on our work on farming 👇
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Discussion explored what a resilient food & farming future looks like – and what's needed to get us there in both a fair and practical way.
The workshop is part of the UKRI-funded BAFR-UK project – and will feed into recommendations for govt & industry.
More here: www.aru.ac.uk/global-susta...
The workshop is part of the UKRI-funded BAFR-UK project – and will feed into recommendations for govt & industry.
More here: www.aru.ac.uk/global-susta...
BAFR-UK: Backcasting to Achieve Food Resilience in the UK project - Global Sustainability Institute - ARU
Find out about the Backcasting to Achieve Food Resilience (BAFR-UK) research project, led by experts from ARU's Global Sustainability Institute.
www.aru.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Discussion explored what a resilient food & farming future looks like – and what's needed to get us there in both a fair and practical way.
The workshop is part of the UKRI-funded BAFR-UK project – and will feed into recommendations for govt & industry.
More here: www.aru.ac.uk/global-susta...
The workshop is part of the UKRI-funded BAFR-UK project – and will feed into recommendations for govt & industry.
More here: www.aru.ac.uk/global-susta...
🧠James’s thoughts echo what we’re hearing more widely: change needs to be shaped with people and places at the centre.
👉Listen to the 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...
👉Listen to the 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
🧠James’s thoughts echo what we’re hearing more widely: change needs to be shaped with people and places at the centre.
👉Listen to the 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...
👉Listen to the 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...
🍽️James also highlighted our False Economy of Big Food report. Prof @timjackson.org.uk's analysis puts the national bill at £268bn a year - a staggering figure that factors in NHS costs, welfare and social care costs, lost work and productivity, and more. “Cheap” food isn’t really cheap at all.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🍽️James also highlighted our False Economy of Big Food report. Prof @timjackson.org.uk's analysis puts the national bill at £268bn a year - a staggering figure that factors in NHS costs, welfare and social care costs, lost work and productivity, and more. “Cheap” food isn’t really cheap at all.
The report mapped the benefits across production, soil health, emissions and rural livelihoods, and set out a clear route for how we get there.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The report mapped the benefits across production, soil health, emissions and rural livelihoods, and set out a clear route for how we get there.
🙌As James says, our Farming for Change report found that agroecology could feed the UK - showing that a nature and climate-friendly transition isn’t just radical: it’s possible and it’s practical.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🙌As James says, our Farming for Change report found that agroecology could feed the UK - showing that a nature and climate-friendly transition isn’t just radical: it’s possible and it’s practical.
🚨As both The Big Issue piece and the Citizen Advisory Council’s work show, the biggest challenges and opportunities lie in creating healthy food environments where good choices are easy and genuinely within reach.
👉Full article: tinyurl.com/yhv4f4hd
➡️More from Citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
👉Full article: tinyurl.com/yhv4f4hd
➡️More from Citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
The Food Strategy
How citizens are shaping policy development.
ffcc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🚨As both The Big Issue piece and the Citizen Advisory Council’s work show, the biggest challenges and opportunities lie in creating healthy food environments where good choices are easy and genuinely within reach.
👉Full article: tinyurl.com/yhv4f4hd
➡️More from Citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
👉Full article: tinyurl.com/yhv4f4hd
➡️More from Citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
In their recent report, the CAC highlight the pull of cheap and unhealthy food and the difficulty of affording good food when other bills are rising. Their message to policymakers was clear: “get to the root of the problem.”
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In their recent report, the CAC highlight the pull of cheap and unhealthy food and the difficulty of affording good food when other bills are rising. Their message to policymakers was clear: “get to the root of the problem.”
🍏This tension echoes messages from the Citizen Advisory Council (CAC), which spent the summer working with Defra on developing the new Food Strategy – and is currently conducting What Works Here Inquiries around the country.
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🍏This tension echoes messages from the Citizen Advisory Council (CAC), which spent the summer working with Defra on developing the new Food Strategy – and is currently conducting What Works Here Inquiries around the country.
But as the article points out, the drugs only work when you take them: they don’t change the commercial food environment or economic realities that influence what people eat.
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
But as the article points out, the drugs only work when you take them: they don’t change the commercial food environment or economic realities that influence what people eat.
🍔People are often relying on weight loss medication while living in places where healthy food is expensive, cheap ultra-processed foods are everywhere, and advertising pushes the quickest, unhealthiest option.
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🍔People are often relying on weight loss medication while living in places where healthy food is expensive, cheap ultra-processed foods are everywhere, and advertising pushes the quickest, unhealthiest option.
🐝Around 1.5 million people in the UK are now using treatments like Ozempic or Mounjaro. For many they can offer real relief. But Isabella McRae’s latest Big Issue article also draws attention to the many tensions behind these numbers.
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🐝Around 1.5 million people in the UK are now using treatments like Ozempic or Mounjaro. For many they can offer real relief. But Isabella McRae’s latest Big Issue article also draws attention to the many tensions behind these numbers.
👉Hear more about what citizens want from food: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
➡️ See more from the British Ecological Society: www.britishecologicalsociety.org
➡️ See more from the British Ecological Society: www.britishecologicalsociety.org
BES | Ecological Solutions for a Planet Under Threat
The British Ecological Society convenes expert voices, collates ecological evidence and makes clear recommendations to influence change through science.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
👉Hear more about what citizens want from food: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...
➡️ See more from the British Ecological Society: www.britishecologicalsociety.org
➡️ See more from the British Ecological Society: www.britishecologicalsociety.org
The conversations in the room and recommendations that emerged were clear - we know what is needed for a fairer, more just food system that works for biodiversity and people.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The conversations in the room and recommendations that emerged were clear - we know what is needed for a fairer, more just food system that works for biodiversity and people.”