Food, Farming and Countryside Commission

📽️Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social on her recent @observeruk.bsky.social piece, the conversations she’s taking part in over the next month, an how we’re getting the voices of citizens and farmers to politicians and policymakers. Read the article observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

🔥 Great episode a few weeks ago from The Food Programme on ‘The future of our fruit and veg’ – and how a stronger horticultural sector in the UK could help us build the resilient food system we need. Listen here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

🌿“One of the changes we've made to become resilient is the use of environmental crops to offset the risk of our cropping rotation on areas prone to flooding.” - Farmer Will Brown New @thecccuk.bsky.social report www.theccc.org.uk/publication/... More #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

👉“By getting trees on our farm, we're not just doing a good thing for nature. We're actually underpinning our livestock business." - Livestock farmer Katie Allen Hear more #FarmingVoices here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

💯 “Unless our natural resources are resilient, our business isn’t going to be resilient” - farmer Kathryn Wright 📈 Food prices are set to rise by 50% since 2021, driven by climate & energy shocks. While more people are pushed into food insecurity – farmers are also struggling to stay afloat...

🚨”We have to invest in the long term, in generational thinking, and not this boom and bust cycle.” @realfarmed.bsky.social Ian Wilkinson on the multiple risks farmers carry right now – and what's needed to build real resilience in food and farming systems. More #FarmingVoices tinyurl.com/mwm294sy

🗣️”Let's talk about the winners in the system at the moment, because some of them are absolutely invisible to most of us” 🍓FFCC’s Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social joined the Wilder Podcast to unpack big questions about the food system. Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🏡What are the practical steps towards taking a multifunctional approach to land? 🚨Watch the webinar and find out more here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🌱“The citizens saw lots of things working everywhere they went: they saw real energy and passion in each place, and were so struck by the collaboration and partnership.” 👂Listen to FFCC's Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown on @foodfoundation.bsky.social Pod Bites podcast: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🫐🍒 “You can get blueberry vapes and cherry vodka, but you can’t get a blueberry or any cherries.” - Citizen Advisory Council member Dominic Watters reflecting on the reality of his local food environment See more from what citizens really want from food: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

🌾“Resilience for a farming business comes from diversity… monocultures are not resilient, and we are highly vulnerable to a crisis at any one time.” - Ian Wilkinson, @realfarmed.bsky.social Right now, that vulnerability is playing out in real time. 👉More #FarmingVoices: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

Regional pride & community resilience at heart of the North East’s food system ❤️ Last but not least, a new film and report from the fourth and final ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ on food in the 📍 North East. Watch the film & read the report ffcc.co.uk/the-north-ea...

💥“No more making decisions about us without us.” ➡️Report & film: ffcc.co.uk/liverpool-me... lpoolcouncil.bsky.social lpoolcityregion.bsky.social kindlingtrust.bsky.social alchemickitchen.bsky.social lucyantal.bsky.social feedingliverpool.org anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social

💪 In Liverpool & Merseyside, people are building their own solutions to get good food to communities. ➡️Find the report & film here: ffcc.co.uk/liverpool-me... @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social @kindlingtrust.bsky.social @alchemickitchen.bsky.social @lucyantal.bsky.social

Yorkshire leading the way on food 💡 Today, a new film and report from the second ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ in York & North Yorkshire is out, coordinated by ‪Deliciously Yorkshire and ‪FixOurFood. 👉Film & report here: ffcc.co.uk/yorkshire-wh... @ynymayor.bsky.social @ynydeputymayor.bsky.social

Great to hear the Citizen Advisory Council and Cornish ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ featured on BBC Cornwall this morning💥 👉Listen from 43 mins in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📚Read the report: ffcc-uk.files.svdcdn.com/production/a... 🎞️See citizen insights in this film: ffcc.co.uk/cornwall-wha...

📽️💥New film & report: What can government learn from Cornwall’s food system? 👉Watch the film, read the report and find out more: ffcc.co.uk/cornwall-wha...

🗣️“I don’t think they’d spend the amount of money they do on advertising food - particularly aimed at children - if it didn’t have that effect.” - @angelaeagle1.bsky.social speaking to @dansaladino.bsky.social. 👂Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🌱What citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

💸Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social at this year’s OFC Oxford Union debate asking a simple question: where has all the money gone? ➡️See the full OFC Oxford Union debate here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

👏The kind of leadership the food system needs 🎧Listen in full here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🚨More on what people want from food: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

🎙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 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...

⛈️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...

🌿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...

📢“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

🍽️Today, Citizen Advisory Council member Ruth, alongside FFCC Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown, is joining Defra, @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social, Future Food Movement, and Lendlease on the future of food in the UK. 👉Hear more about what citizens want from food: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

🆕New research from @climateoutreach.bsky.social and @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows that the majority of British people want to see “protecting our food supply and supporting British farmers” made a priority in government climate policy. 👉See it here climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/

They are noticing the role that corporate power has in slowing progress and limiting the impact of so much good work already underway. ✨More on this to come in 2026...

🗣️ “Without people, we are nothing.” 🌾Cotswolds farmer, Emergent Generation founder and FFCC Commissioner Jonty Brunyee reflects on how crucial people and communities are to resilient farming businesses and rural economies. 👉More #FarmingVoices ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🗣️“The public are starting to feel an unease with the idea that their weight and general health is controlled - more or less - by the ultra-processed food industry.” - Dr Chris van Tulleken, BBC Today programme Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... More from citizens: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

Citizens have been travelling the UK for the ‘What Works Here Inquiries’ – a citizen-led investigation that aims to help shape the government’s new Food Strategy. Hear more from citizens here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

🙋Citizens are showing policymakers how food works for them through the Food Strategy’s Citizen Advisory Council (CAC). Here, @foodfoundation.bsky.social Food Ambassador Dominic offers a reminder of what food choice really looks like on the ground. 👉Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan. 👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Read the reports: ➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications... ➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...

🌿 As John Cherry says, farmers are on the frontline and are often the first to feel shifting weather patterns. Rural communities – both here in the UK & around the world – are also already living with the realities of climate change, as challenges like flooding become more common and serious.

🗣️How can farmers get their voices heard better? 🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest. Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...