🧩 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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💡 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.

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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.

🌤️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.

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🚜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.

🌱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...

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🌾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.

🤝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...

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🌼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.

🌳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.

Listening to citizen voices is a real opportunity for government to ensure food works for people and communities, as well as businesses.

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👉 Find out more about the Citizen Advisory Council: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy