Citizens are challenging old assumptions about food 🚨 David, participant in #TheFoodConversation and member of the Citizen Advsisory Council for the Food Strategy, will be speaking at Labour Party Conference later this month, at our event with @foodfoundation.bsky.social & @sustainweb.org 👇

🍞🥦💷Britain has some of the cheapest food in the world – but farmers are losing out and people can’t afford to eat well. How have we got to this situation? 🔗Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🌿FFCC is at Abergavenny Food Festival this weekend. Join us for two key events on Wales's food future: 🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a... 🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...

Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed & too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this @ffc-commission.bsky.social podcast by Will Evans, @timjackson.org.uk and Emily Norton discuss the true cost of cheap food + how to create a fairer, healthier system. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/...

#LPC25: Get real about growth Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k

🌱How can we unlock the power of local food? 👉Join the webinar to find out more: www.sustainweb.org/events/power... 📖Read more about what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...

🔔🚨 “The call for cheap food is a weapon of a dysfunctional system.” 🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food

🌍 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social, joined today’s Net Zero Council meeting.

🌾🎉What a day at Fields Good! The festival is back - bringing together farmers and wider food community to share ideas about a fairer farming future. ➡️ Find out more about Fields Good here: fieldsgood.co.uk 👉 Explore more about our work on food and farming: ffcc.co.uk

👩‍🌾🌾Citizens want farmers to be paid properly and treated fairly. ➡️Learn more from @sustainweb.org and @riverford.bsky.social: www.sustainweb.org/blogs/sep25-... 👉 View the Early Day Motion and signatories here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

🥛If high quality meat and dairy products are only available to those on high incomes, are we risking what dairy farmer Ruth calls “a two-tier food system”? 👉 Click here to listen to the full episode: ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🚜 Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/we-need-to-t...

With the ID debate back on the agenda, it’s worth a closer look at who is benefiting from undocumented work. The food delivery firms, the nail bars, the hand car wash outlets… Who makes money from those businesses; who is buying the cheap products? theconversation.com/im-always-de...

🍭⚡Encouraging to see Department of Health and Social Care and @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social moving to protect children from unhealthy energy drinks. 🔗Read the article here: www.bbc.com/news/article... 👉 Find out more about the Citizen Manifesto: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

‼️📣“People across this country care very much about is farmers and how much they’re paid… cheap food - it’s cheap on the shelves for a reason… who is not getting paid fairly?” ➡️Find out more about our work talking to citizens: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

“I’m not suggesting in the armed forces… There are many things that [young people] could do that would represent national service that would have benefit for them and benefit for the country” 🔊 Listen from 02.30.00: tinyurl.com/4z8vsyh6 🚨The Nature Service in Wales: natureservice.wales/how/

🗣️ “We all live on the same ground… there’s probably more we agree on than we disagree on.” 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🌾This summer’s drought has left some UK crop yields down by 50%. But as Prof Manoj Dora points out in @uk.theconversation.com, the real problem isn’t just the weather – it’s a system built on cheapness at all costs. 💭 Read here: tinyurl.com/3n2bzbxp 🚨 Explore Paying the Price: tinyurl.com/9m8kspv3

#LUNZ Hub partners @ffc-commission.bsky.social ran four workshops across England in April 2025 to support #Defra in its Consultation on Land Use. You can read the Land Use Workshops Report now on the #LUNZHub Resources page here ➡️ bit.ly/4fZ6quI

🎙️Out now: We Need To Talk About… Meat & Dairy 🚨Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🌱 Fields Good 2025 is back this year on 6th Sep, with a brilliant line up of sessions & speakers🌱 🚨Get your tickets here👉 fieldsgood.co.uk

🌱 No land but want to farm? 🏡 Own land and want fresh ideas? ✨Farm partnerships could be the key✨ - connecting people and places to build regenerative futures. 👉 Find out more: www.emergentgeneration.co.uk/events

🌱 What does food security actually mean when it comes to running a farm? For farmer Jonty Brunyee, it’s all about capacity. 🎧 Our next episode is coming soon – to listen to 'We Need To Talk About Food Security' with host Will Evans & Prof Tim Lang 👉 ffcc.co.uk/we-need-to-talk-about-farming

“Parents have great trust in these companies - and so they rely on them to do the right thing.” Dr Alison Tedstone this morning, reacting to the government’s new voluntary guidelines for businesses to reduce salt & sugar in baby food. Listen from 2.39.00 in 👉 www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

📱 New @cancerresearchuk.org findings show just how much young people are bombarded with junk food content online. 🗞️Read the article 👉 www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... 🚨Find out more about our work with citizens 👉 ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...

🌳🍴What will it take to meet our land-based targets – without compromising food security? Book tickets for 'Our Future In The Land': www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-future...

🗣️“We must make sure that we don’t say food security is self-sufficiency.” Listen to the podcast ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

Love this innovation! Healthy street food, easily available everywhere! @ucl.ac.uk on.ft.com/45DuU8d Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike

📢 We've set up a Food Ambassador Advisory Board to amplify the voices of people with lived experiences of food poverty! They'll ensure our strategic direction is shaped by people with first-hand experience of the issues we aim to tackle. Learn more: bit.ly/3Jc6g7c

💥Out now: We Need To Talk About… Food Security ffcc.co.uk/we-need-to-t...

💻🚨 Have you read our latest #FieldGuideForTheFuture yet? ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...

🌽 🍽️ We’re bringing big ideas and bold questions to Abergavenny Food Festival this year with a conference exploring: “A Fairer Food Future: Can Wales Lead the Way?” 🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm 📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...

🗣️ “People want choice but they’re not choosing, because who controls the narratives around food and its place within our lives and culture, who controls where we find it and what we can afford?” ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...

👀 Have you heard? We’re launching a new podcast series with Will Evans, the voice behind the Rock n Roll Farming podcast. 👩‍🌾 Farmers are facing a lot of challenges right now – ut when it comes to talking about what needs to change, the loudest voices sometimes drown out the rest.

🧠 Great piece by Dr Dolly van Tulleken on the real reason governments have failed to act on food. It’s not lack of facts or public support – it’s fear of regulation.

"Resilience is something that is disproportionately expected of the poor" says Dominic Watters, a single father from a housing estate in Kent. Part 1 of our 2-part podcast series "Hunger on your doorstep" is out now, produced with support from the @foodfoundation.bsky.social buff.ly/123qzdX

✍️ New blog: Getting the balance right 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Following the Royal Welsh last week, FFCC Wales Director Jon Parker reflects on the show’s main talking point: the long-awaited Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS). Read in full 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🌾Emergent Generation Summer Gathering returns for 2025🌾 🧠 This year’s event explores a vital question: how do we reconnect farm and fork, town and country? 🎟️ Find out more and buy tickets here 👉 www.emergentgeneration.co.uk/summergather...

🎧 Great episode on Big Food & the power these companies wield in our society. 🧩 As @bmj.com's Jennifer Richardson says: Big Food has an industry playbook they use to delay or water down legislation and protect shareholder profit – from corporate social responsibility spin to regulatory loopholes.

🎙️ Introducing: We Need To Talk About Farming 💥 We’re very excited to launch our brand new podcast mini-series, co-created with Will Evans of the much-loved Rock n Roll Farming podcast. 🎧 Find out more and listen to the full teaser at: ffcc.co.uk/we-need-to-t...

🌱 Yesterday, our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social attended the launch of the Future of Food exhibition at the @sciencemuseum.org.uk, alongside fellow Advisory Group colleagues. 🔎 It navigated some knotty topics about how & whether we change food, while staying engaging to its main audience – children.

📝New blog: Ambitious, transparent and inclusive With a #LandUseFramework now expected in autumn and a number of relevant bills going through parliament, FFCC’s @georgiebarber.bsky.social reflects on how it needs to work to enable long-term, resilient change for people and planet.

🛒 Food prices are on the rise again, with the average household expected to spend an extra £275 this year on groceries 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This will have serious implications for those on low incomes. It will also force even more families to turn to unhealthy, processed options.

Here’s a wild idea for you, junk food companies, that’ll save you years and £millions in R&D, product testing and marketing! *Just don’t make bad things!* You’re welcome. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

24% of plastic waste with an identifiable brand came from just five companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, and Altria. #PollutersMustPay

🗣️ 'Food insecurity isn't about poor choices - it' about a lack of choices' Three Food Ambassadors we work with have given powerful contributions to a @childofthenorth.bsky.social report. Read them here: ➡️ bit.ly/4kDttvV

Political momentum is building around the need to fix food 💪 Following the launch of the next stage of the Food Strategy on Tuesday - the ‘Good Food Cycle’ - the Health & Social Care Select Committee have announced a new inquiry into the prevention and treatment of obesity.

Citizens have their say on food 💪 Yesterday, two members of the Food Strategy’s Citizens Advisory Council joined Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner MP and other leaders to speak at the launch of the government’s #GoodFoodCycle in Bradford.

Starting the morning with crucial issue of #Landuse - central to #PublicHealth #FoodSecurity and tackling #ClimateEmergency with brilliant Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social

🙌 Great to see DEFRA launching the Good Food Cycle plan to transform Britain's food system. As our Executive Director Anna Taylor points out - the real challenge now lies in delivering it! Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/3TFBJkc #goodfoodcycle @ffc-commission.bsky.social @biteback2030.bsky.social

🗣️ “A well-designed Food Strategy could be groundbreaking” 💥 Today, citizens are joining Minister of State Daniel Zeichner MP in Bradford to encourage this government to go further than any other in transforming the way food works in the UK.