Job vacancy: We’re looking for a Communications Lead to join our small, dynamic team. Full details here: www.foodethicscouncil.org/vacancy-comm...

...real opportunity to rebalance the scales – and ensure the new Food Strategy works for people and communities, as well as businesses. 👉Read Dan’s column: www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-... ❣ More on how citizens are shaping the Food Strategy: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

"Real legitimacy happens when citizens – especially those most affected – help shape policy. That’s why I back the Citizen Advisory Council and meaningful public engagement.” 👏💪 - @dancrossley.bsky.social, Chief Executive @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social Read here www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-...

We're pleased to have advised the National Lottery Community Fund on this new funding opportunity about strengthening food systems and reducing food insecurity for people and communities, as part of its Climate Action Fund. For more info, see: www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/fund...

Another amazing #ORFC. Thank you everyone that came to our workshop on ‘funders and the movement’, and big thanks to ORFC team & volunteers for another inspiring conference 🙏

If you’re at ORFC today, after you’ve been to the opening plenary, come along to our @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social workshop at 11am at Blue Boar House!

We’d love your support! If you’re in a position to donate, pls do (before 9th Dec, so you can double your donation). If not, we’d love your help to spread the word please. 🙏

We’d love your support! If you’re in a position to donate, pls do (before 9th Dec, so you can double your donation). If not, we’d love your help to spread the word please. 🙏

Food Issues Census 2024-25 is a wake up call for UK food and farming. Now is the time to invest in civil society activity on food and farming! Check out our guest blog for the A Team Foundation, one of the funders of the Census www.ateamfoundation.org/blog-1/2025/...

Mark #WorldFoodDay and celebrate the majority world's food providers who, while respecting #PachaMama and #Nyeleni, cooperate to provide 80% of world's peoples with food through #biodiverse #agroecological systems and #FoodSovereignty eg: bsky.app/profile/fao.... @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social

Today is #WorldFoodDay. This year's theme is "Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future". We're firm believers in the need for joining hands and in promoting food as a vehicle of peace. Solidarity to all those working for food justice. There is much work to do. Change food, change the world.

🌏 EAT Lancet 2.0 is out! On what has changed in what constitutes a 'Planetary health diet' since the original EAT Lancet report in 2019, Walter Willett said 'almost nothing'. Lots of more recent science backs up what was in the original Planetary Health diet.

In a guest column for The Grocer, Chair of the Food Ethics Council @eltasmith.bsky.social, writes about why a right to food is needed in the new food strategy for England www.foodethicscouncil.org/opinion/miss...

“…when farming scales, the value placed on food, on farmers, community connection, habitat creation… all become casualties” Check out the latest blog on our website from Ian Pigott

Our exec director @dancrossley.bsky.social was lucky enough to be at Groundswell yesterday. An amazing buzz around regenerative and agroecological food & farming

We're delighted to share that Elta Smith is new Chair of the Food Ethics Council. Under the rotating Chair model we have operated for several years, Elta has taken over the Chair role from Albert Tucker, for the next yr You can read Elta's biography here: www.foodethicscouncil.org/who-we-are/o...

Gov'ts must work harder to address root causes. Invest in prevention, to take burden off NHS. Diet-related ill health costing UK £268bn p.a. (Prof Tim Jackson), i.e. >£10 per person per day. On Spending Review day, UK Gov't should invest properly in UK agriculture and better food systems.

Watch 'Food Issues Census 2024-25 unpacked' webinar back: www.foodethicscouncil.org/insights/foo... Recommended for Civil society organisations involved in UK food & farming + current/ potential funders: learn about opportunities for collective impact, inform your strategy & better target funding.

Register now to explore the findings from #130 organisations involved in food & farming in the UK. Hopefully see you online on Wednesday!

What do civil society organisations working in, and organising around, food & farming want – from each other, from funders, from alliances & networks? Join this online webinar and explore insights from Food Issues Census 2024-25.

“new reciprocal market access on beef” 🤔

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Am looking forward to joining Dan Byam, Aoife Allen, Clementine Hain-Cole and Christian Reynolds for this panel. Do join if you can!

We live in an instant world, where everything's about immediacy, instant gratification and quick fixes. We think it can be different. As part of this, how we think about the impacts of our work is really important. I'm interested in who's thinking differently about impact. Who can we learn from?

I've been proud to chair the Advisory Group for the Food Conversation. It was brilliant to meet members of the public who have been involved in the process at the House of Lords yesterday. They spoke powerfully to Daniel Zeichner and other MPs & peers. My key message: listen to what people tell us!

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Really enjoyed speaking to students at @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social just now, exploring the question ‘what should food systems be for?’ and how might we measure success?

Later this month, we're publishing the final Citizens' Manifesto from #TheFoodConversation – and bringing citizen voices to decision-makers around the UK. Find out more about the project so far 👉 ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...

Kudos to Anneliese Dodds for showing principle and courage by resigning Minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...

Disappointing to see the UK government cuts its aid spending - we need to be internationalist and recognise our responsibilities internationally, not try to ‘impress’ Trump….

Still going through it, but Prof Tim Lang's new UK civil food resilience report is a must-read. Pleased to see our Food Policy on Trial that explored UK public food procurement get a mention - and to be described as a "small but respected NGO"👍 nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications...

Huge mistake 🤦‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Determination + hope. I agree w/ Anna Taylor that that’s what we need to transform food systems. Was at Food Foundation’s ‘Broken Plate’ launch in Westminster. Must-read report paints bleak picture of state of UK food systems, but brings challenge & inspiration via citizen ambassador photo stories

Excellent breakdown from @dancrossley.bsky.social in @thegrocer.bsky.social on the staggering cost of unhealthy food to UK citizens, as revealed by @proftimjackson.bsky.social in our report ‘The False Economy of Big Food’ 👏 www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-...

Thank you everyone that has responded to the Food Issues Census survey to date. It will close at the end of Sat 25th Jan ⏰

💫 FINAL CHANCE to shape the future of funding for UK food & farming. Take part in the Food Issues Census. Share your priorities w/ funders & other decision-makers. ⏰ Final deadline to reply is Sat 25th Jan. ✨ Take the survey today: form.jotform.com/243423813703... vimeo.com/1046771830

"There’s a number we should all know about and be acting on, but we’re not: £268bn… Imagine every person in the UK throwing a £10 note in the bin at the end of every day." How can we get our head round mind-boggling costs of current food systems? Me in The Grocer www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-...

👐Last chance to take part!👐🏾 👇🏽👇🏻👇🏿

The Chancellor apparently wants regulators to "tear down" red tape. This is worrying and frustrating. Why do so many politicians get sucked into the ‘red tape’ rhetoric? Unchecked UK is doing important work to show that most regulation is ‘common sense protection’. Worth a look…

💫 Last chance to shape the future of funding for UK food & farming. Take part in the Food Issues Census. Share your priorities w/ funders & other decision-makers. ⏰ Final deadline to reply is now 25th Jan. ✨ Take the survey today: form.jotform.com/243423813703... vimeo.com/1046771830

Last few days to respond ⏰

Do you work for a UK civil society organisation that works on food & farming - directly or indirectly? Work for a grassroots community organisation on food access OR a national charity working on farming, land use and environmental issues, and everything in between? If so, pls respond today 👇

What’s one word to sum up #ORFC25 and/ or #OFC25, if you were lucky enough to be in Oxford for the farming conferences, or joined online?

Thank you to all the organisers, and especially the amazing volunteers 👏, at #ORFC25 for another incredible, mind-expanding, challenging, inspiring conference in Oxford. As more than one speaker succinctly put it: “We have lots to do!”

Food Issues Census open for responses! All UK civil society organisations working on, & organising around, food invited. Shape the future of funding & resources + identify opportunities for greater collective impact. Pls respond by 17 Jan ⏰ #ORFC25 #OFC25 www.foodethicscouncil.org/programme/fo...

More brilliant sessions at #ORFC25 this morning - on funding the agroecological transition and on food resilience. Mind racing at the loads of ideas, insights & challenges raised by everyone. About to listen to a session on what might insect sentience mean for agroecology. Buzzing 🐝 😊

Am at ‘Across the water: food stories from N Ireland’ session at #ORFC25, featuring Helen Keys, Cormac Dolan and the brilliant Beth Bell @bethbell.bsky.social 😊 (wearing her Belfast Food Partnership & Carrick Greengrocer hats)

“Cow calf contact farmers are disproportionately female” notes a dairy farmer speaking at ‘Doing Dairy Differently’. The farmer called for the sector to be open to embracing new ideas and diversity, including diversity of systems, saying that sexism is a problem in agriculture #ORFC25 👩🏼‍🌾🐮

#ORFC25 Interesting to hear one of the dairy farmers at ‘Doing dairy differently’ session flag that some cows are bred for “the ‘right amount’ of maternal instinct”, when talking about dairy genetics and cow calf contact 🐄🐮🥛

‘Doing dairy differently’ at #ORFC25 - three dairy farmers doing cow calf contact. Great to hear their stories about the challenges & opportunities (including making farmers happy) We did our own case studies on doing dairy differently in our Dairy Project www.foodethicscouncil.org/our-work/dai...