A micro dairy, free range broilers, wildflower seed and an education venue have been put forward as viable options to secure the future of a new agroecological farm.
In the first of a series of ‘impact stories’, we meet AFN member Kate Jones, a PhD student researching foresight and early warning for food systems resilience at Cranfield University, and learn how our Network has positively impacted them.
AFN Policy Champion, Emily Norton, has been appointed Chair of the AHDB (Agricultural & Horticultural Development Board). Emily, who is our Policy Champion for Land, Agriculture, and Carbon, will take up the role on 1st June for three years.
The BBSRC has recently awarded £13 million to projects aimed at making UK supply chains more resilient. More on the projects, and details of a vacancy on one of them.
Please consider spending 10-12 minutes taking this survey. It runs until 17 January, and three luxury farmhouse hampers worth £200 each are being offered as prizes in a draw for participants.
The AFN Network+ team has recently won another grant from BBSRC to drive forward best practices on EDI within research networks. The project is called Elevate: Elevating marginalised voices through EDI codesign, and will run for the next 12 months.
The AFN Network+ is offering a unique opportunity for early career researchers (ECRs) to make a real impact, grow professionally, and shape the future of the UK’s agri-food sector.
What does the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget mean for farming, nature, land use and net zero? Emily Norton, our new Policy Champion for Land, Agriculture and Carbon, gives her analysis.
What does the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget mean for food, farming, health, and land use? Ali Morpeth, our Policy Champion on Food Systems, Health & Nutrition, ties it all together for us.
What does the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget mean for food and health? Ali Morpeth, our Policy Champion on Food Systems, Health & Nutrition, gives her analysis.
To mark World Food Day the AFN Network+ (UKRI Agri-food for Net Zero Network+) is proud to announce funding of more than £500,000 for 15 innovative projects which aim to support the UK agri-food sector through the transition to a net zero UK by 2050.
We need to reframe land-use change in the UK, move away from net zero as the central goal, and talk to farmers more about their livelihoods. These are some of the key messages from Chris Stark, one of the country’s best known and most senior civil servants working on climate policy.
