📚 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

Looking forward to being at two sessions at Groundswell on Weds 2 July. Q: What can growers and farmers do to improve civil food resilience? A: community not just soil; feed humans not commodity markets; press politicians for more diverse systems as well as biodiversity. Grasp this nettle?

Uh these are most definitely not idiosycratic drivers of inflation for the 21st century, Mr Bailey. Climate risks are the inflation megatrend of this century. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🌞 Headed to #Groundswell25 next week? We're part of three thought-provoking sessions to explore solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing food and farming today. Here's where you can find us... Explore the full programme here 👉 groundswellag.com/sessions/

Yesterday's progress report from the Committee on Climate Change was cautiously positive about recent woodland creation rates...

Worth a read - how to transform the food system www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper

We have a new paper out, in which we use brute force to identify combinations of land use/management changes which navigate the triple challenge of climate change, biodiversity conservation and food production: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ConservationScience 🌍 @rspbscience.bsky.social 1/

Climate change is affecting food production and causing food price inflation

A video of this week's webinar 'Inspiring a food system transformation - what can we learn from WW2?' is now available 👉 tinyurl.com/5d5uub4x A big thank you to our participants, and speaker, Professor Neil Ward 🙏

My webinar for the AFN Network on learning lessons for food system transformation from the 1940s to 1960s can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=025T...

"This judgment sets a critical precedent. Local planning authorities can no longer treat each factory farm unit as isolated when together they create a systemic environmental crisis." 🙌 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🎟️ Have you got tickets for Groundswell? 📅 2–3 July, Hertfordshire We're hosting a tent with a variety of sessions 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnadcm5 Groundswell provides a forum for anyone interested in food production &environment to learn about theory &practical applications of regenerative farming systems

A significant development in the legal treatment of large poultry farms …