By Jez Fredenburgh Knowledge Exchange Fellow for AFN Network+ If you missed our annual network gathering last month, you can now watch the key presentations on YouTube, by clicking the names of our three distinguished and very thought-provoking speakers below. Judith Batchelar OBE is deputy chair of the Environment Agency and former brand director for Sainsbury’s. Navaratnam Partheeban OBE is a farm vet and founder of the British Veterinary Ethnicity & Diversity Society. Sue Pritchard is a farmer and chief executive of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission. Key points from Judith's presentation on supermarkets and food system change and challenges: “The world doesn’t produce what the world needs to be eating! We need to produce three times more fruit & veg globally than we are currently, if everyone is to eat a healthy, planet-friendly diet"
Judith's slide on what the world produces, and what the world needs to eat I looked up Judith's point about the UK's fruit and veg deficit, and it really is rather large: Out of 'food, feed and drink', fresh fruit and veg is the highest value category for imports, totalling £6.6 billion (2022). Exports of fresh fruit and veg, in comparison, totalled only £149m. That's a trade deficit of £6.45 billion! See full government stats here.
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