Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
With your help, we are bringing people together to find practical ways to improve our climate, nature, health and economy. Bio links here -> https://linktr.ee/ffcc Check out our website -> https://ffcc.co.uk/
💡Good interview with @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social on the today about the leadership we need to see on climate change. 🌻 As Emma says, building more resilient, adaptive systems is an investment, not a cost, for our long-term national health, prosperity and security.
🗣️ “Let’s start talking much more seriously about the precautionary principle, the polluter paying & the lobbyists” 🏡 Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social talking at @cprecountryside.bsky.social's Land Use Conference about why we need more honest conversations about how corporate power really works.
👎 Yet more evidence of how Big Food frighten governments around the world into weakening or delaying policies designed to protect our health. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
🥦 Across parties, food matters to the public & they want political ambition to reflect this. 🌱 With new leadership in government, this is a real opportunity for imaginative, ambitious food policy that drives regional economic growth, improves health outcomes & makes Britain a fairer place to live.
New polling from @ffc-commission.bsky.social shows that citizens know the food system is broken - and want Government to act! www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'I live in a UK food desert where it's easier to buy vapes than fruit'
Meet the everyday citizens shaping government food policy - and the inspiring 'Queen of Greens' mobile fruit and veg bus bringing fresh foods to Brits in 'food deserts'
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📣 📊 People across UK want government to take food seriously 🇬🇧 Today, new @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling reveals the British public agree about food. Across parties & postcodes, most people think the current system isn’t working - yet see food as a critical part of a healthy, thriving society.
💡Interesting points from @neweconomics.bsky.social's Danny Sriskandarajah this morning on some of the reforms @andyburnham.bsky.social could bring in to grow the real economy and revitalise local high streets. Read a briefing we made earlier for Labour Party Conference: ffcc.co.uk/publications...
Citizens are ready to bring solutions 💥 💪 In this 📽, members of the Citizen Advisory Council tell us why they got involved – and what citizens can uniquely offer politicians and policymakers working on food.
📝New blog: Where next? Manchesterism and the Farming Roadmap tinyurl.com/yvyr8tcr ❓Could devolving more farming powers work? FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner asks how the government’s new Farming Roadmap could align with Andy Burnham’s big play of handing power and resources to Britain’s communities.
🔥 “The bravery of government will be judged on the extent to which they accept citizen perspectives” ⭐ Great @foodfoundation.bsky.social Pod Bites with Sustainable Food Cornwall's Matthew Thomson on a new report from the Citizen Advisory Council. 👉 Listen: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
💯 “Food isn’t a middle class ambition, it’s something most people want to achieve” 📽️ Here, citizens share how food fits into their lives & why they care about it. Across the UK, people, communities & businesses are working against the odds to change food – but conditions are limiting progress.
🗣 “The Citizen Advisory Council’s vital work shines a light on the values we want to see in our food system that are already alive in communities across England” 💯 We couldn’t agree more @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social, DEFRA Farming Minister.
💥New citizen-led report shows what works and what’s getting in the way of good food. Read 'From the Ground Up' here ffcc.co.uk/publications...
🌾Heading to Groundswell next week? The FFCC team are out in force across the two days, joining some of the leading voices in food and farming to dig into the big questions facing the sector – and how to get to the future we all want. Here’s where you can find us…
Don't miss our webinar with @ffc-commission.bsky.social tomorrow! We'll explore: what happens when citizens are given a seat at the table when it comes to influencing policy? Free sign up: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🚨Webinar tomorrow - spaces running low: tinyurl.com/4bddrwny 🍏What happens when citizens are given a seat at the table when it comes to influencing policy? 🍽️Join us to explore a new report from the Citizen Advisory Council, who have been working with Defra on the Good Food Cycle.
📣 Yesterday, David Smith MP, referenced our report ‘Paying The Price’ at Westminster Hall. Report here: ffcc.co.uk/publications... 🗣️“The FFCC reports that the productivity of farming increased by 60% from the 1970s to the 2020s, but farming incomes have not increased in line with that.”
That's a wrap on #CPRELUC A brilliant, honest day of conversations about England's land-use crisis with policymakers, farmers, planners, researchers and advocates all in one room. Thanks to everyone who joined us and to our co-hosts @UCL. Recordings and write-up coming soon.
🎯 “It’s citizens who give government and business the license to operate and the legitimacy to get the the food system they really want” 🍎 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social talking about who’s responsible for changing food at The Conduit's Climate & the Future of Health conference at #LCAW2026.
From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "When the food environment offers flavour without nutrition, stimulation without sustenance, and branding without care, those choices are already structured by inequality." – @ffc-commission.bsky.social ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
“Blueberry vapes, no blueberries”
Dominic Watters on what council estate food environments reveal about Britain’s food system.
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⚰️Today, our Chief Exec delivered the eulogy at tmrw’s Funeral for the Food System. 🕯️In the eulogy, @suepritch.bsky.social reflected on what the system gave us, what it cost us – and what could grow in its place. #RIPFoodSystem #LCAW2026
🫐 “The challenge is no longer simply whether poverty is spoken about, but who gets to speak, and what happens when communities long spoken about begin speaking back." - Dominic Watters Read Dominic's blog here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
🔥 What happens when citizens are given a seat at the table when it comes to influencing policy? 🗣️ Join us and @foodfoundation.bsky.social as we talk to some of the citizens involved in the food strategy 📅 30 June, 10-11am. Online. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗣️“How does power work in the system, and what can we do to shift it in favour of a fairer, greener and healthier future?” ✨FFCC Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social is giving the keynote speech for Food Systems Track at @theconduitlondon.bsky.social Climate and the Future of Health 2026 conference.
Although it’s been said before, I wrote this now because the food industry is telling government it can only help with food price inflation if govt lets it off the “regulatory burden”. By which they mean fairer pay, healthier food, reducing waste. Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh…?
Food, Farming and Countryside Commission@ffc-commission.bsky.social · 2mo ago💸 New blog: The Hidden Bill ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🌿 In a new blog, FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social explores why food industry lobbying & spending remains so difficult to track, and what that means for transparency and public trust.
💸 New blog: The Hidden Bill ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🌿 In a new blog, FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social explores why food industry lobbying & spending remains so difficult to track, and what that means for transparency and public trust.
🌾 Join FFCC Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social, Rt Hon George Eustice, Sophie Gregory & Patrick Holden CEO of @susfoodtrust.bsky.social for a conversation on the policy and politics of farming at Ark Summit 2026. 📅 19 June 2026 , The Cotswolds Tickets here: www.arkce.com/summit-26
💥FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social will be speaking at @cprecountryside.bsky.social (CPRE)'s Centenary Conference on 25th June on ‘Land - the taboo topic’. ⏳Tickets running low. Get yours now: www.cpre.org.uk/land-use-con... 📍 UCL East, Stratford 📅 25 June (1/6)
