Who better to provide that understanding than the people who are a part of these systems every day, those who live and breathe the realities of our food industry? These are the farmers, manufacturers, innovators, distributors, retailers, restaurateurs, and consumers. Their perspectives, insights, and experiences are invaluable. They are not just stakeholders in our food […]
Year: 2023
Regenerative agriculture and net zero: mapping the evidence
In June the AFN Network+ ran a two-day Crucible workshop, in which researchers and food stakeholders came together to develop ideas for projects which support our mission of getting the agri-food sector to net zero. Projects competed for funding with two Scoping Studies selected as winners. One of those two winning teams was led by […]
Mapping the agri-food system
Achieving net zero in the agri-food system requires understanding the whole system, including production, supply chains, consumption, waste, land use, governance, economics, trade, and more. At a workshop in April, led by Professor Robert Costanza, AFN Network+ champion for Systems Interactions in Production, members of the AFN Network+ built a preliminary conceptual systems dynamics model of the […]
Call for Scoping Study Grant Proposals and Crucible Event
We are delighted to announce two exciting new opportunities from the AFN Network+ We invite you to apply for funding to carry out work which supports our mission of reaching net zero through the agri-food sector. The funded projects will involve at least one non-academic food system stakeholder in a meaningful way, and be interdisciplinary […]
New webinar series to examine net zero in the food system
The AFN Network+ has launched its new webinar series, which will feature high quality speakers at the top of their game. Each webinar will explore the topic of how to create a more sustainable, low-emission, UK agri-food system from a variety of perspectives. For the first webinar, the speaker was Dustin Benton, policy director of Green […]