Kirsty Tait
@kirstymtait.bsky.social
Director for Scotland - Food Farming and Countryside Commission https://ffcc.co.uk/ finding the balance *human rights* land rights *nature rights. Writer/Photographer/Filmmaker Weeflee Productions
Congratulations to all behind the Royal Highland Show
Great to launch the #ScottishAgroecologyPartnership- a shared voice for #Agroecology lnkd.in/eFhrW7xd
@ffc-commission.bsky.social has evidenced that a transition to #agroecology is economically & agronomically plausible lnkd.in/etFvakye
Great to launch the #ScottishAgroecologyPartnership- a shared voice for #Agroecology lnkd.in/eFhrW7xd
@ffc-commission.bsky.social has evidenced that a transition to #agroecology is economically & agronomically plausible lnkd.in/etFvakye
June 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Congratulations to all behind the Royal Highland Show
Great to launch the #ScottishAgroecologyPartnership- a shared voice for #Agroecology lnkd.in/eFhrW7xd
@ffc-commission.bsky.social has evidenced that a transition to #agroecology is economically & agronomically plausible lnkd.in/etFvakye
Great to launch the #ScottishAgroecologyPartnership- a shared voice for #Agroecology lnkd.in/eFhrW7xd
@ffc-commission.bsky.social has evidenced that a transition to #agroecology is economically & agronomically plausible lnkd.in/etFvakye
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With the landmark Good Food Nation Plan reaching its final publication, it’s an exciting time for Scottish food policy 🏴
In a new blog, FFCC's Kirsty Tait reflects on the unique opportunity that the Good Food Nation Act’s local five-year plans offer to ensure citizen voices are heard.
Read on 👇
In a new blog, FFCC's Kirsty Tait reflects on the unique opportunity that the Good Food Nation Act’s local five-year plans offer to ensure citizen voices are heard.
Read on 👇
Good Food Nation – time to fix food
Kirsty Tait, Scotland Director, on why engaging properly with citizens could be the key to success for food policy in Scotland.
ffcc.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
With the landmark Good Food Nation Plan reaching its final publication, it’s an exciting time for Scottish food policy 🏴
In a new blog, FFCC's Kirsty Tait reflects on the unique opportunity that the Good Food Nation Act’s local five-year plans offer to ensure citizen voices are heard.
Read on 👇
In a new blog, FFCC's Kirsty Tait reflects on the unique opportunity that the Good Food Nation Act’s local five-year plans offer to ensure citizen voices are heard.
Read on 👇
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📢BRIEFING: Power in the system - how to shift it for citizens, farmers & nature
👓You can now read a briefing of this webinar, (in collaboration with @ffc-commission.bsky.social) collated & written by Nina Pullman, food systems writer👉tinyurl.com/5aaad3cfWe
👓You can now read a briefing of this webinar, (in collaboration with @ffc-commission.bsky.social) collated & written by Nina Pullman, food systems writer👉tinyurl.com/5aaad3cfWe
In a joint webinar with @ffc-commission.bsky.social, our speakers shared insights from their latest research, which followed concerns raised by citizens in #TheFoodConversation – and explain why questions of power and profit need to rise up the political agenda. tinyurl.com/b6ww3hw
May 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢BRIEFING: Power in the system - how to shift it for citizens, farmers & nature
👓You can now read a briefing of this webinar, (in collaboration with @ffc-commission.bsky.social) collated & written by Nina Pullman, food systems writer👉tinyurl.com/5aaad3cfWe
👓You can now read a briefing of this webinar, (in collaboration with @ffc-commission.bsky.social) collated & written by Nina Pullman, food systems writer👉tinyurl.com/5aaad3cfWe
Interested in the progress of #agroecology in #Scotland?
Proud to be a member of the new Scottish Agroecology Partnership and see it launched at the Royal Highland Show tomorrow
Come and join us to find out more 👇
Proud to be a member of the new Scottish Agroecology Partnership and see it launched at the Royal Highland Show tomorrow
Come and join us to find out more 👇
🏴 Heading to the Royal Highland Show this week?
We’re excited to be joining @soilassocscot.bsky.social, @nffn.bsky.social, Scottish Crofting Federation, @landworkersuk.bsky.social, Propagate, Pasture for Life and @nourishscotland.bsky.social at a reception for the Scottish Agroecology Partnership.
We’re excited to be joining @soilassocscot.bsky.social, @nffn.bsky.social, Scottish Crofting Federation, @landworkersuk.bsky.social, Propagate, Pasture for Life and @nourishscotland.bsky.social at a reception for the Scottish Agroecology Partnership.
Select tickets – Scottish Agroecology Partnership at the Highland Show – Royal Highland Show - Scottish government tent
Join the Scottish Agroecology Partnership (SAP) — a new coalition of food and farming organisations working together to support...
www.tickettailor.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Interested in the progress of #agroecology in #Scotland?
Proud to be a member of the new Scottish Agroecology Partnership and see it launched at the Royal Highland Show tomorrow
Come and join us to find out more 👇
Proud to be a member of the new Scottish Agroecology Partnership and see it launched at the Royal Highland Show tomorrow
Come and join us to find out more 👇
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Speakers at SEDA Land’s Nature Finance event include @johnmuirtrust.bsky.social director David Fleetwood, who will advocate for JMT’s carbon land tax, while @graememccormick.bsky.social will outline an annual ground rent model to replace all other taxes. No parroting allowed — only original thinking
March 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Speakers at SEDA Land’s Nature Finance event include @johnmuirtrust.bsky.social director David Fleetwood, who will advocate for JMT’s carbon land tax, while @graememccormick.bsky.social will outline an annual ground rent model to replace all other taxes. No parroting allowed — only original thinking
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The Nature Finance, Public or Private? event will be chaired by Nick Drainey, Scotsman news editor turned freelance journalist, who excels at cutting through jargon. Sophie Cooke will explore how different approaches to funding nature restoration might affect us personally, through her poetry.
March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Nature Finance, Public or Private? event will be chaired by Nick Drainey, Scotsman news editor turned freelance journalist, who excels at cutting through jargon. Sophie Cooke will explore how different approaches to funding nature restoration might affect us personally, through her poetry.
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Each of the six panelists at our Nature Finance, Public or Private? event is committed to nature restoration with community involvement, but each believes in a different approach. The hope is they will find some common ground.
📅 28 April, 4-6pm
📍 Online
🎟️ seda.scot/monday-28th-...
📅 28 April, 4-6pm
📍 Online
🎟️ seda.scot/monday-28th-...
March 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Each of the six panelists at our Nature Finance, Public or Private? event is committed to nature restoration with community involvement, but each believes in a different approach. The hope is they will find some common ground.
📅 28 April, 4-6pm
📍 Online
🎟️ seda.scot/monday-28th-...
📅 28 April, 4-6pm
📍 Online
🎟️ seda.scot/monday-28th-...
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Next Thursday, Charlie will be discussing the findings with FFCC’s Mhairi Brown and Jez Fredenburgh in an FFCC x @afnnetwork.bsky.social Webinar called ‘Power in the food system - how to shift it for citizens, farmers & nature’.
Book your spot here: www.agrifood4netzero.net/events/power...
Book your spot here: www.agrifood4netzero.net/events/power...
Power in the food system - how to shift it for citizens, farmers and nature - AFN Network+
Citizens are frustrated with the extreme imbalance of power and profit in the food system, and want political leaders to bring radical change. In this joint webinar with the Food, Farming and Countrys...
www.agrifood4netzero.net
March 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Next Thursday, Charlie will be discussing the findings with FFCC’s Mhairi Brown and Jez Fredenburgh in an FFCC x @afnnetwork.bsky.social Webinar called ‘Power in the food system - how to shift it for citizens, farmers & nature’.
Book your spot here: www.agrifood4netzero.net/events/power...
Book your spot here: www.agrifood4netzero.net/events/power...
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Instead, the report makes the case for much more ambition from government – with potential policy levers not just falling to Defra, but also departments in charge of tax, health, trade, education, welfare and housing.
Read in full here: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Read in full here: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Paying the Price
Cheap food, big business and the cost to farming and food security.
ffcc.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Instead, the report makes the case for much more ambition from government – with potential policy levers not just falling to Defra, but also departments in charge of tax, health, trade, education, welfare and housing.
Read in full here: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Read in full here: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner on Farming Today this AM, discussing our new report ‘Paying the Price’, which shows farmers’ incomes have barely risen for 50 years, farms have been forced to consolidate & intensify, and the UK’s food & farming resilience is at risk.
Listen from 3 mins in bit.ly/4kI9j5c
Listen from 3 mins in bit.ly/4kI9j5c
March 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner on Farming Today this AM, discussing our new report ‘Paying the Price’, which shows farmers’ incomes have barely risen for 50 years, farms have been forced to consolidate & intensify, and the UK’s food & farming resilience is at risk.
Listen from 3 mins in bit.ly/4kI9j5c
Listen from 3 mins in bit.ly/4kI9j5c
Ferm hoose up on the rental market as an 'rural escape'
It never was a place of escape for tenants who lived, worked, loved and lost there
Always been a place of connection. For me, to my people, community, nature and how I made and continue to make sense of the world.
We have rural all wrong
It never was a place of escape for tenants who lived, worked, loved and lost there
Always been a place of connection. For me, to my people, community, nature and how I made and continue to make sense of the world.
We have rural all wrong
March 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ferm hoose up on the rental market as an 'rural escape'
It never was a place of escape for tenants who lived, worked, loved and lost there
Always been a place of connection. For me, to my people, community, nature and how I made and continue to make sense of the world.
We have rural all wrong
It never was a place of escape for tenants who lived, worked, loved and lost there
Always been a place of connection. For me, to my people, community, nature and how I made and continue to make sense of the world.
We have rural all wrong
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Who holds the power in the food system and who is profiting? What is the impact of this inequality and corporate control on farmers and growers, our health, nature, and ability to tackle climate change? What can be done about it?
Fascinating event coming up from @ffc-commission.bsky.social :
Fascinating event coming up from @ffc-commission.bsky.social :
🚨 New webinar: Power in the food system – how to shift it for citizens, farmers and nature
🤝 In a joint FFCC x @afnnetwork.bsky.social webinar, FFCC's Charlie Taverner & Mhairi Brown will explore the extreme imbalance of power & profit in the food system.
🎟️ Book your free spot: bit.ly/3XymJ9R
🤝 In a joint FFCC x @afnnetwork.bsky.social webinar, FFCC's Charlie Taverner & Mhairi Brown will explore the extreme imbalance of power & profit in the food system.
🎟️ Book your free spot: bit.ly/3XymJ9R
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Who holds the power in the food system and who is profiting? What is the impact of this inequality and corporate control on farmers and growers, our health, nature, and ability to tackle climate change? What can be done about it?
Fascinating event coming up from @ffc-commission.bsky.social :
Fascinating event coming up from @ffc-commission.bsky.social :
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Read the report in full ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Paying the Price
Cheap food, big business and the cost to farming and food security.
ffcc.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Read the report in full ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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🍔 Push for low-cost calories has cheapened British food
📉 Farming incomes have barely improved in real terms for 50 years
🛒 Tiny number of big businesses dominate our food chain
🌾 UK’s long-term food resilience at risk in volatile world
💪 Govt must fix dysfunctional economy for public benefit
📉 Farming incomes have barely improved in real terms for 50 years
🛒 Tiny number of big businesses dominate our food chain
🌾 UK’s long-term food resilience at risk in volatile world
💪 Govt must fix dysfunctional economy for public benefit
March 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🍔 Push for low-cost calories has cheapened British food
📉 Farming incomes have barely improved in real terms for 50 years
🛒 Tiny number of big businesses dominate our food chain
🌾 UK’s long-term food resilience at risk in volatile world
💪 Govt must fix dysfunctional economy for public benefit
📉 Farming incomes have barely improved in real terms for 50 years
🛒 Tiny number of big businesses dominate our food chain
🌾 UK’s long-term food resilience at risk in volatile world
💪 Govt must fix dysfunctional economy for public benefit
'Whatever funding government wants to put towards agriculture, it needs to address the underlying issue of cheapness – the decades-long push for low-cost calories, concentration of power in Big Ag and Big Food & huge hidden costs on health & nature.'
Great to publish this timely analysis today 👇
Great to publish this timely analysis today 👇
🚨 Report argues Britain’s food economy needs to properly reward good food and farming.
Today, new analysis from FFCC shows the real impact of a dysfunctional food system built around cheap food at all costs. Farmers and the public are losing out.
Read @theguardian.com exclusive 👉 bit.ly/4bQbyPL
Today, new analysis from FFCC shows the real impact of a dysfunctional food system built around cheap food at all costs. Farmers and the public are losing out.
Read @theguardian.com exclusive 👉 bit.ly/4bQbyPL
UK farmers’ incomes stagnant since the 1970s, report finds
Exclusive: Research shows drop in produce prices as households consume more imported and ultra-processed food
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
'Whatever funding government wants to put towards agriculture, it needs to address the underlying issue of cheapness – the decades-long push for low-cost calories, concentration of power in Big Ag and Big Food & huge hidden costs on health & nature.'
Great to publish this timely analysis today 👇
Great to publish this timely analysis today 👇
Canongate Wall is one of my favourite places - a wall of amazing words, so many of which stop you in your tracks.
Your chance to choose more of these from three of our best - all past Makars #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie
Your chance to choose more of these from three of our best - all past Makars #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie
Fancy being a part of history?
Join us in marking the Parliament building's 20th anniversary by voting for your 3 favourite quotes from a handpicked selection to inscribe on the Canongate Wall.
Find out more about the project: www.parliament.scot/get-involved...
Join us in marking the Parliament building's 20th anniversary by voting for your 3 favourite quotes from a handpicked selection to inscribe on the Canongate Wall.
Find out more about the project: www.parliament.scot/get-involved...
February 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Canongate Wall is one of my favourite places - a wall of amazing words, so many of which stop you in your tracks.
Your chance to choose more of these from three of our best - all past Makars #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie
Your chance to choose more of these from three of our best - all past Makars #LizLochhead #JackieKay #KathleenJamie
Wrong tree, wrong place 👇
🌲 Over winter, over 256 hectares of self-seeded Sitka spruce were cleared from Tarras Valley to protect the moorlands! Funded by @ScotGovAgri, with Hawes Forestry Ltd leading the work. More to come in autumn! 🍃 Read more: www.tarrasvalleynaturereserve.org/sitka-cleara...
February 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wrong tree, wrong place 👇
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#GoodNews - all the sessions from the @orfc.bsky.social this year (and previous years) are now freely available online.
Lots of brilliant #agroecology ideas
orfc.org.uk/orfc-archives/
Lots of brilliant #agroecology ideas
orfc.org.uk/orfc-archives/
ORFC Archive
Explore conference material that we have gathered over the years including videos, presentations and summaries of the sessions…
orfc.org.uk
February 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#GoodNews - all the sessions from the @orfc.bsky.social this year (and previous years) are now freely available online.
Lots of brilliant #agroecology ideas
orfc.org.uk/orfc-archives/
Lots of brilliant #agroecology ideas
orfc.org.uk/orfc-archives/
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🍽️ Last week, FFCC CEO Sue Pritchard featured on
@foodfoundation.bsky.social's podcast.
Responding to The Food Foundation's latest 'Broken Plate' report, Sue brought citizen voices into the fold with #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 tinyurl.com/2s3zb74p
More on food 👉 tinyurl.com/93prrbuy
@foodfoundation.bsky.social's podcast.
Responding to The Food Foundation's latest 'Broken Plate' report, Sue brought citizen voices into the fold with #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 tinyurl.com/2s3zb74p
More on food 👉 tinyurl.com/93prrbuy
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🍽️ Last week, FFCC CEO Sue Pritchard featured on
@foodfoundation.bsky.social's podcast.
Responding to The Food Foundation's latest 'Broken Plate' report, Sue brought citizen voices into the fold with #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 tinyurl.com/2s3zb74p
More on food 👉 tinyurl.com/93prrbuy
@foodfoundation.bsky.social's podcast.
Responding to The Food Foundation's latest 'Broken Plate' report, Sue brought citizen voices into the fold with #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 tinyurl.com/2s3zb74p
More on food 👉 tinyurl.com/93prrbuy
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With industry taking more than their fair share of seats at the table when it comes to influencing food policy, now is the time for government to rebalance the scales and listen to what citizens really want.
February 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
With industry taking more than their fair share of seats at the table when it comes to influencing food policy, now is the time for government to rebalance the scales and listen to what citizens really want.
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In our latest blog, FFCC's Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown discusses the government’s response to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Food, Diet and Obesity Committee’s Recipe for Health report, which included an “unprecedented analysis of food industry lobbing."
Why government must look beyond industry influence
FFCC’s Mhairi Brown on why real economic growth will come from an inclusive, evidence-based approach to policy.
ffcc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In our latest blog, FFCC's Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown discusses the government’s response to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Food, Diet and Obesity Committee’s Recipe for Health report, which included an “unprecedented analysis of food industry lobbing."
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You might be interested in this:
Jim Carruth: Experiences of a Modern Day Farmer Poet
19 March, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
In this talk Jim Carruth – poet, Glasgow Makar, & farmer – shares some poems & discusses the challenges & changes facing farmers today
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...?
Jim Carruth: Experiences of a Modern Day Farmer Poet
19 March, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
In this talk Jim Carruth – poet, Glasgow Makar, & farmer – shares some poems & discusses the challenges & changes facing farmers today
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...?
Highlight Talk - Jim Carruth on Experiences of a Modern Day Farmer Poet
Free Highlight Talk in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
You might be interested in this:
Jim Carruth: Experiences of a Modern Day Farmer Poet
19 March, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
In this talk Jim Carruth – poet, Glasgow Makar, & farmer – shares some poems & discusses the challenges & changes facing farmers today
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...?
Jim Carruth: Experiences of a Modern Day Farmer Poet
19 March, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
In this talk Jim Carruth – poet, Glasgow Makar, & farmer – shares some poems & discusses the challenges & changes facing farmers today
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...?
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We've put together a handy digest of Professor Tim Lang’s new report: Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap buff.ly/4jT0h4Y concluding that we need to move from reactive food policies to proactive, community-centred resilience planning 📋
DIGEST: Just in Case Report - AFN Network+
A look at Professor Tim Lang’s new report: Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap, published by the National Preparedness Commission.
tinyurl.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We've put together a handy digest of Professor Tim Lang’s new report: Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap buff.ly/4jT0h4Y concluding that we need to move from reactive food policies to proactive, community-centred resilience planning 📋
Celebrating all my farming women and all those I work with #WomenInScience
Who don't often think of themselves as scientists but whose working lives science runs through.
Progress being made towards greater #equality in #farming & #crofting but still a way to go.
All power to your elbows 💪
Who don't often think of themselves as scientists but whose working lives science runs through.
Progress being made towards greater #equality in #farming & #crofting but still a way to go.
All power to your elbows 💪
February 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Celebrating all my farming women and all those I work with #WomenInScience
Who don't often think of themselves as scientists but whose working lives science runs through.
Progress being made towards greater #equality in #farming & #crofting but still a way to go.
All power to your elbows 💪
Who don't often think of themselves as scientists but whose working lives science runs through.
Progress being made towards greater #equality in #farming & #crofting but still a way to go.
All power to your elbows 💪
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🌿 Pulses and soils: a dynamic duo that sustain one another! 🌍🧪
Pulses improve soil health and well-maintained soils allow pulses to thrive.
For #WorldPulsesDay, explore this complementary relationship with @fao.org⤵️ #SaveSoil
Pulses improve soil health and well-maintained soils allow pulses to thrive.
For #WorldPulsesDay, explore this complementary relationship with @fao.org⤵️ #SaveSoil
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🌿 Pulses and soils: a dynamic duo that sustain one another! 🌍🧪
Pulses improve soil health and well-maintained soils allow pulses to thrive.
For #WorldPulsesDay, explore this complementary relationship with @fao.org⤵️ #SaveSoil
Pulses improve soil health and well-maintained soils allow pulses to thrive.
For #WorldPulsesDay, explore this complementary relationship with @fao.org⤵️ #SaveSoil