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🧩 FFCC Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social contributed to the report alongside 38 other food system experts, including @sarahbridle.bsky.social, Elta Smith, Aled Jones and many more leaders across academia, government, civil society and industry.
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Experts reveal how a major food crisis might happen in the UK, and what we can do to stop it
A new report has set out how the UK might respond to major disruptions to food supplies triggered by events such as war, extreme weather, or cyber-attacks, and what can be done now to prevent such dis...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
🧩 FFCC Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social contributed to the report alongside 38 other food system experts, including @sarahbridle.bsky.social, Elta Smith, Aled Jones and many more leaders across academia, government, civil society and industry.
More: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
More: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
💡 Shoring up our resilience is a real opportunity to help the food and farming system thrive in the long-term – and work for climate, nature, health and the economy. And we know from our work talking to citizens and farmers that they want government to take this seriously.
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
💡 Shoring up our resilience is a real opportunity to help the food and farming system thrive in the long-term – and work for climate, nature, health and the economy. And we know from our work talking to citizens and farmers that they want government to take this seriously.
📉The report paints a stark picture of how exposed the UK is to shocks to the food system – from cyber attacks to conflict. The report recommends key interventions, including increasing UK energy security, creating more diverse supply chains and enabling people to eat healthier, more varied diets.
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
📉The report paints a stark picture of how exposed the UK is to shocks to the food system – from cyber attacks to conflict. The report recommends key interventions, including increasing UK energy security, creating more diverse supply chains and enabling people to eat healthier, more varied diets.
📚 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...
Read in full here: www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
📚 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...
Read in full here: www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...
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Let’s all co-own the farm next door | w. Fordhall Farm & Sue Pritchard
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February 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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👫 As Sue says, farmers are incredibly important to their communities & more needs to be done to support local supply chains that benefit local people. She also talks about how the success of Fordhall Farm reflects what citizens want: a system that works for people & communities, not private profit.
February 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
👫 As Sue says, farmers are incredibly important to their communities & more needs to be done to support local supply chains that benefit local people. She also talks about how the success of Fordhall Farm reflects what citizens want: a system that works for people & communities, not private profit.
🎙Let’s all co-own the farm next door?
🌱 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social on a new episode of “Screw this… Let’s try something else” – all about the brilliant Fordhall Farm and how collective ownership could offer a different kind of food and farming future.
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🌱 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social on a new episode of “Screw this… Let’s try something else” – all about the brilliant Fordhall Farm and how collective ownership could offer a different kind of food and farming future.
👉 open.spotify.com/episode/1p5m...
February 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
🎙Let’s all co-own the farm next door?
🌱 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social on a new episode of “Screw this… Let’s try something else” – all about the brilliant Fordhall Farm and how collective ownership could offer a different kind of food and farming future.
👉 open.spotify.com/episode/1p5m...
🌱 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social on a new episode of “Screw this… Let’s try something else” – all about the brilliant Fordhall Farm and how collective ownership could offer a different kind of food and farming future.
👉 open.spotify.com/episode/1p5m...
Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social at this year’s OFC26 Oxford Union debate, setting out the opportunities and potential of a thriving and prosperous farming sector with people at its heart.
Watch in full 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Watch in full 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
February 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social at this year’s OFC26 Oxford Union debate, setting out the opportunities and potential of a thriving and prosperous farming sector with people at its heart.
Watch in full 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Watch in full 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
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Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.
Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.
Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈
🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.
Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈
🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
February 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.
Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.
Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈
🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.
Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈
🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A
🌤️With so much uncertainty in other parts of their business, farmers need clear direction from government, joined-up and well thought-through policy, and to know they’ll get the support they need to both adapt to and help mitigate climate change.
➡️Hear more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
➡️Hear more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Farming voices
This short film is the first in a series about what farmers really think.
ffcc.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
🌤️With so much uncertainty in other parts of their business, farmers need clear direction from government, joined-up and well thought-through policy, and to know they’ll get the support they need to both adapt to and help mitigate climate change.
➡️Hear more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
➡️Hear more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🚜In this clip, farmer @alicapper.bsky.social talks about how much of farming life centres on the forecast – and the uncertainty farmers face with a livelihood dependent on staying resilient to a changing and unpredictable climate.
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
🚜In this clip, farmer @alicapper.bsky.social talks about how much of farming life centres on the forecast – and the uncertainty farmers face with a livelihood dependent on staying resilient to a changing and unpredictable climate.
🌱Farmers have told what resilience often looks like in practice: being ready to cope with whatever the weather brings, through round-the-clock preparation.
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
🌱Farmers have told what resilience often looks like in practice: being ready to cope with whatever the weather brings, through round-the-clock preparation.
⛈️As Storm Chandra brings heavy rain and disruption to parts of the UK, it’s a snapshot of the kind of conditions many farmers are constantly planning around.
👉See more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
👉See more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
⛈️As Storm Chandra brings heavy rain and disruption to parts of the UK, it’s a snapshot of the kind of conditions many farmers are constantly planning around.
👉See more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
👉See more #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🌱It’s great to see more regionally-led discussions of the challenges and solutions facing farmers right now.
➡️Watch the full segment on BBC Look North here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
👉More on our work on farming: ffcc.co.uk/farming-futu...
➡️Watch the full segment on BBC Look North here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
👉More on our work on farming: ffcc.co.uk/farming-futu...
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🌱It’s great to see more regionally-led discussions of the challenges and solutions facing farmers right now.
➡️Watch the full segment on BBC Look North here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
👉More on our work on farming: ffcc.co.uk/farming-futu...
➡️Watch the full segment on BBC Look North here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
👉More on our work on farming: ffcc.co.uk/farming-futu...
🌾Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social was speaking at the first ever Yorkshire Farming Conference yesterday – with issues like a changing climate at the forefront of discussions on the day.
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🌾Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social was speaking at the first ever Yorkshire Farming Conference yesterday – with issues like a changing climate at the forefront of discussions on the day.
☔️Disrupted seasons – including longer and wetter periods and drought – make managing the land and a farm businesses even more difficult, with already tight margins pushed to breaking point.
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
☔️Disrupted seasons – including longer and wetter periods and drought – make managing the land and a farm businesses even more difficult, with already tight margins pushed to breaking point.
🌿Interesting to hear BBC News weather presenter @paultheweatherman.bsky.social set out how changing weather patterns are reshaping the realities farmers face each day, during BBC Look North’s coverage of the Yorkshire Farming Conference.
👀Watch in full here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
👀Watch in full here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
🌿Interesting to hear BBC News weather presenter @paultheweatherman.bsky.social set out how changing weather patterns are reshaping the realities farmers face each day, during BBC Look North’s coverage of the Yorkshire Farming Conference.
👀Watch in full here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
👀Watch in full here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
🤝When communities are involved from the start, these strategies can reflect how people actually live, and support places that are both productive and restorative.
➡️Watch Georgie at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🔎More on our work on land use: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
➡️Watch Georgie at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🔎More on our work on land use: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
The Multifunctional Land Use Framework - A Rough Guide
What is a MLUF, and why use it? | How could it work?
ffcc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
🤝When communities are involved from the start, these strategies can reflect how people actually live, and support places that are both productive and restorative.
➡️Watch Georgie at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🔎More on our work on land use: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
➡️Watch Georgie at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🔎More on our work on land use: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
🌼Rather than seeing these needs in competition, Georgie emphasised that land can serve many functions when decisions are joined up.
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
🌼Rather than seeing these needs in competition, Georgie emphasised that land can serve many functions when decisions are joined up.
🌷As new Spatial Development Strategies are proposed, there is a real opportunity to use land in ways that deliver multiple benefits at once: supporting homes, food, nature, environment and community wellbeing together.
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
🌷As new Spatial Development Strategies are proposed, there is a real opportunity to use land in ways that deliver multiple benefits at once: supporting homes, food, nature, environment and community wellbeing together.
🌳Speaking at the Westminster Forum Projects Social Policy conference ‘Next steps for regional spatial planning in England’, FFCC’s Land Use Lead Georgie Barber shared a positive vision for how land use can help create healthier and more resilient places.
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
🌳Speaking at the Westminster Forum Projects Social Policy conference ‘Next steps for regional spatial planning in England’, FFCC’s Land Use Lead Georgie Barber shared a positive vision for how land use can help create healthier and more resilient places.
🗣️“The important thing is making sure that local communities are involved and engaged in designing and delivering interventions that work for them.”
📹Watch FFCC's Georgie Barber at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
➕More about our land use work: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
📹Watch FFCC's Georgie Barber at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
➕More about our land use work: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
🗣️“The important thing is making sure that local communities are involved and engaged in designing and delivering interventions that work for them.”
📹Watch FFCC's Georgie Barber at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
➕More about our land use work: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
📹Watch FFCC's Georgie Barber at Westminster Social Policy Forum: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
➕More about our land use work: ffcc.co.uk/multifunctio...
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Exactly. And this is part of a growing pattern. People *want* to be able to trust businesses and institutions that shape their lives. It’s about more than food. But let’s start with fixing food.
📢“We know from public opinion research, including by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission that people are desperate to know what’s in their food, they’re desperate for transparency”
Full segment from 07:24: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
More on what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
Full segment from 07:24: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
More on what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Exactly. And this is part of a growing pattern. People *want* to be able to trust businesses and institutions that shape their lives. It’s about more than food. But let’s start with fixing food.
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"The point is that it's a lot easier for families to fill up tummies with really convenient, energy-dense food."
"We need supermarkets to be doing much more to make it easier for families to make those healthy choices."
- our Executive Director Anna Taylor on BBC Breakfast this morning.
"We need supermarkets to be doing much more to make it easier for families to make those healthy choices."
- our Executive Director Anna Taylor on BBC Breakfast this morning.
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
"The point is that it's a lot easier for families to fill up tummies with really convenient, energy-dense food."
"We need supermarkets to be doing much more to make it easier for families to make those healthy choices."
- our Executive Director Anna Taylor on BBC Breakfast this morning.
"We need supermarkets to be doing much more to make it easier for families to make those healthy choices."
- our Executive Director Anna Taylor on BBC Breakfast this morning.
Listening to citizen voices is a real opportunity for government to ensure food works for people and communities, as well as businesses.
📹Watch the full segment at 07:24: lnkd.in/eC6QJdwEhttp...
👉 Find out more about the Citizen Advisory Council: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
📹Watch the full segment at 07:24: lnkd.in/eC6QJdwEhttp...
👉 Find out more about the Citizen Advisory Council: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
The Food Strategy
How citizens are shaping policy development.
ffcc.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Listening to citizen voices is a real opportunity for government to ensure food works for people and communities, as well as businesses.
📹Watch the full segment at 07:24: lnkd.in/eC6QJdwEhttp...
👉 Find out more about the Citizen Advisory Council: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy
📹Watch the full segment at 07:24: lnkd.in/eC6QJdwEhttp...
👉 Find out more about the Citizen Advisory Council: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy