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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
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 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
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 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...
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 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.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 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...
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 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...
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🗣️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...
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 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
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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...
October 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🤔 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...
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 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...
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🎙️ Out now: We Need To Talk About… Net Zero

Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
October 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM