'While other countries were talking about new approaches for bringing intelligence to bear on the unprecedented challenge of climate change, the UK was actually doing something about it' -Prof. Bill Clarke, Harvard More about the Tyndall Centre + its launch 2️⃣5️⃣ yrs ago: tyndall.ac.uk/about/

It’s #EarthDay 🌍 The theme "Our Power, Our Planet" reminds us that the people sustaining our food system must shape its future. At Root and Reason, we embed lived experience in decision-making so that change happens with people, not to them. 🤝 rootandreason.org.uk

I went to a viewing of this film in Pembrokeshire last week. I recommend getting along to a viewing if you can.

And we're off ... AFN Network becomes Root and Reason - the food resilience collective !

It shouldn’t take a war for Britain to wake up to the need for food security | Tim Lang

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Implications of Hormuz blockade over two weeks, six weeks and six months

🚨🚨In the wake of the #EUCO drama a major news is that #Norway has again commenced the political debate on joining the #EuropeanUnion. NB; Norway is due to its EEA membership already applying most EU single market rules.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/norw...

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

#undersaltmarsh is a weird combination of murder mystery and estuarine hydrology

A fantastic resource, especially if you need a break from the doomscrolling

George Osborne and Ed Balls have used the latest @polcurrency.bsky.social pod to call out @instituteforgovernment.org.uk (among v distinguished company) for our "technocratic obsession" with a single fiscal event a year. Guilty as charged.

Are @ec.europa.eu proposals for #CAP for the period 2028–2034 fit to drive the scale of environmental and climate action Europe now needs? Read our latest briefing to find out 👇

I really wish announcements about new schemes from public funders like the ESRC weren't made via paywalled articles...

📚 New research out today ‘Potential Pathways and Solutions to Acute Food System Crisis in the UK’, examines how a serious food crisis could happen in the UK, and what can be done to stop it. Read in full here: www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...

“None of the important issues facing the food system can be adequately addressed without strong underpinning social science.” In this guest feature✍️ @profneilward.bsky.social emphasises a crucial role for social science in transforming the UK’s food system. ➡️ acss.org.uk/transforming...

Defra has quietly published what should be one of the most significant reports on UK food security in years: a national security assessment of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. Read our digest 👉 tinyurl.com/53tmhcaa

“When I am dead and gone My Vibrations will live on In vibes on vinyl through the years People will dance to my waves” Mark E. Smith 5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018

"The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required." re: the challenge of food security under nature collapse. from a UK govt national security assessment out today… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

"Without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food" - says Joint Intelligence Cttee. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #afnnetwork.bsky.social

A thoughtful and interesting speech for anyone trying to make sense of what on earth is happening

I'll be speaking at this event, and you can book here: www.tinyurl.com/FSTS26

If you are on the way to the #OxfordRealFarmingConference, you might be interested to read this piece: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

⭐New guest feature⭐ In this piece @profneilward.bsky.social of @tyndallcentre.bsky.social emphasises a crucial role for social science in transforming the UK’s food system to help address a range of issues incl. climate change, food security & agricultural resilience.➡️ acss.org.uk/transforming...

"The evidence suggests that climate impacts are what’s actually driving issues of profitability as opposed to policy change. Without reaching net zero emission there is no way to limit the impacts making food production in the UK ever more difficult.” https://bit.ly/4pfrq4d

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Two quick takes on the government's Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan - this podcast and a new @green-alliance.org.uk blog. That's your lunchtime sorted! greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/10/31/a...

The drainage of lowland peat has produced a giant carbon bomb in the Fens - something I discuss in The Lie of the Land Very interesting proposal in the Govt's Carbon Budget Delivery Plan to *consider* regulating Fen landowners to raise water levels: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6901d0...

Our co-lead @profneilward.bsky.social joined BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today to discuss the Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, and what needs to change to build a fairer, healthier, more resilient food system for the UK. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/3ee88y3k

Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient - read this piece in @uk.theconversation.com by our co-lead @profneilward.bsky.social about our Roadmap for Resilience report. theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2. Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy #UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap

What a wonderful night in Norwich with Edwyn Collins, who put on a great show with much love all round.

Join the live launch of EAT Lancet on Friday, 3 October! We’re proud to be part of the upcoming launch of the EAT Lancet Commission, a major scientific update to one of the most influential food systems reports of the past decade. Register now: bit.ly/3Kg9SW8

📃 Our team have digested another raft of the latest key reports and news on food systems and climate covering the latest on health inequalities, school meals, lobbying by food industry, a sustainability framework for farmers & much more 👉 tinyurl.com/4am62du3

Bringing our key objective into focus in a session at our #BigTent event today in the Net Zero Pathways workshop, attendees discussed how soil and agricultural systems can inform and support the development of pathways to net zero in the land use sector. #LUNZHub #LandUse #NetZero

Feed: "Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research" By: April Dyer on Monday, September 8, 2025

The panels for REF2029 have been announced... 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

NEW from me: Clean energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. Power sector CO2 fell 3% as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand.

A reminder that Nigel Topping will be speaking at our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference this September, in a plenary on "Irreversible progress in climate policy and technology". Full agenda here: tyndall.ac.uk/events/criti...

💉To Ozempic & beyond: Could weight-loss jabs help or hinder sustainable dietary shift?' Don't miss our last webinar before the summer break - What will be the climate impact of the weight-loss drugs that are sweeping the nation? 9am tomorrow! (24/07)👉 tinyurl.com/6a8jn9fh

Policy paper published today on the UK government's food strategy for England: www.gov.uk/government/p...

A new book says tech-supported industrial ag will feed the world. Agroecologists, like experts from @ipes-food.org and American Farmland Trust, would like a word. Read more in our latest by @lelanargi.bsky.social: foodprint.org/blog/a-new-b...

I am probably quite unusual in preferring to write for non-academic audiences. Love the advice 'write to be understood not admired'

#Groundswell2025 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says we need the food system to be more resilient to cope with future shocks #AFN

👋Have you got a spare 10 minutes to take our survey? Funding for our Network ends later this year & we’re exploring new ways to continue. We want to hear your views on what you value most about us and what you’d like to see from us in the future 👉tinyurl.com/25tcbyhu

DIGEST: Retailers to be required to report proportion of healthy food sold – joint announcement from Defra and Health secretaries Another great summary from our Knowledge Exchange expert @overthefarmgate 👉 tinyurl.com/yc87wx4j

#AFN talking resilience with Tim Lang and Polly Davies at #Groundswell2025 - get ready as more shocks to the system are coming

#AFN all set up and ready for #Groundswell2025. Come and see us at C26 in the Pasture Field