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Mapping the agri-food system

23/5/2023

 
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 UK agri-food system.  

You can view the current version here. Hover over any of the variables and see its connection in the system to all the other variables. The conceptual model can be used to help understand the integrated system, and as the basis for more quantitative systems dynamics modelling and research in the future.
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Call for Scoping Study Grant Proposals and Crucible Event

9/5/2023

 
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We are delighted to announce two exciting new opportunities from the AFN Network+

AFN Network+ Call for Scoping Study Grant Proposals
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 in nature. Up to £350,000 will be awarded in total. 15 projects will be funded for up to £10,000 for a maximum 12 month period. A further 4 projects will be funded for up to £50,000 for a maximum 24 month period. Applications open on 12 May and close on 6 July 2023. Projects will begin 1 October 2023. Further details here. 

AFN Network+ Crucible Event

Are you passionate about the role of the agri-food sector in helping get to net zero? Do you have a question you want to answer, but need to find the right people to work with to address it? We are looking to bring together people working in the food system and academics at universities and other higher education institutions to forge new collaborations.

The AFN Network+ Crucible is a two-day workshop in Bristol on 21 and 22 June. You will spend two days immersed in professionally-facilitated brainstorming and development of new project ideas, culminating in pitching your project for the chance to be awarded funding. Even if you are not one of the lucky teams selected at the Crucible, you will have spent time working on the application form for the Call for Scoping Study Grant Proposals, which closes two weeks after the Crucible. Applications to attend close on 21 May 2023. Further details here.

How to save the planet & our health through food - Henry Dimbleby

28/4/2023

 
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Henry Dimbleby, author of the UK government's National Food Strategy, has written a book – 'Ravenous - how to get ourselves and our planet into shape'. This is Henry's no-holds-barred take on what we need to do to save the planet and our health through food. Henry discussed this with Professor Neil Ward, co-lead of the AFN Network+ and professor at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at UEA.

This is the latest in our series of AFN Network+ webinars with 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.




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Tackling greenhouse gas emissions in supermarket supply chains

25/4/2023

 
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The UK has one of the most concentrated groceries retail sectors in the world, with just five supermarkets controlling around 80% of the market. Tackling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in these supply chains can therefore have a huge impact. But with thousands of suppliers, fierce competition between retailers, and less-than-perfect measurement tools, how can this actually be achieved?

In the latest AFN Network+ webinar, Dr Stephen Mackenzie, a Senior Specialist on the issue of GHGs in food systems at WRAP, digs into this for us. WRAP is the UK’s leading climate change NGO focused on waste and resources, and Stephen is playing a major role in the charity’s recently launched Retailer Net Zero Collaborative Action Programme, a major collaboration between WRAP, WWF and eight UK retailers that aims to accelerate progress on reducing GHG emissions in the food and drink sector through pre-competitive collaboration.



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New webinar series to examine net zero in the food system

31/3/2023

 
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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 Alliance. 
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The UK government has committed to delivering net zero by 2050 – but how on track are we and what needs to change in UK food and farming? Dustin Benton, policy director at Green Alliance, talks us through Chris Skidmore’s independent review of government net zero plans, and puts forward his own solutions from the Alliance’s latest report 'Shaping UK land use: priorities for food, nature and climate'.

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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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