Impact and Engagement
The AFN Network+ is committed to fostering collaboration, driving innovation, and supporting research that advances the agri-food system toward a more sustainable future. Find out about more about our growing membership, the projects we’ve supported and our growing bank of resources.
Our Membership
Our aim as a Network is to build an open, diverse and inclusive community of members, that sparks new relationships, as well as strengthening existing ones, between stakeholders across agri-food. Our Membership Directory provides a tool for members to interact with each other and forge new connections.
Total Network Members: 3000+
Total Membership Directory Profiles: 624
“The Big Tent event has been the best networking opportunity I’ve ever been to.”
“The Network has been instrumental in my establishment as a researcher in the UK. it gave me the platform to meet people of like passion/mind, get a sense of the latest/ongoing issues in the UK Food system.”
Read how our members have been inspired, supported, and connected through the Network:
Kate Jones
“What I love about the AFN Network+ is that it’s opened up a whole network of people to me who I can test ideas on, ask for feedback from, or perhaps even ask to read a paper I’m working on. Especially as a career changer who hasn’t been in this world forever, some industry conferences can feel quite exclusive. Whereas, this Network puts you in comfortable situations where you make those connections and that’s enormously valuable”. Read more:
Funding and impact
The Network has provided funding for both small-scale academic research and for non-academic activities. The projects that we have funded support our mission of shaping the research necessary to drive the agri-food system’s progress towards net zero. In total, over the life of the Network, we are awarding nearly £1 million to dozens of projects.
Total funded Scoping Studies: 31
Total funded FlexFund Projects: 25
Total amount awarded: Nearly £1 million
Read more about the work funded by the AFN Network+
Propagate
Lochhill, in Galloway, south west Scotland, is a 26-hectare farm with a new succession plan as the owners look to step back from farming, while preserving the farm’s biodiversity and contributing to the local community. With funding from the AFN Network+, the team carried out extensive baselining of the farm’s soil health, wildlife and natural capital, as well as a roundtable event with experts in regenerative farming to crowdsource ways of raising income in addition to subsidies. Read more:
You can find a full list of the projects we have funded on our Funded Projects page
Resources and knowledge exchange
The Network produces an extensive range of resources including webinars and podcasts, newsletters and briefings and digests of new research and reports. Our Resource Hub has become a valuable resource for people across agri-food.
Watch the webinars, or read briefings and digests, in our Resource Hub
“The latest webinars were truly inspiring.”
“I wasn’t even aware of half of these reports, let alone having enough time to go and read them. Another really good thing that the AFN Network+ are doing!”
