How can we help build the UK’s readiness to avert a food crisis, and what would it actually take?

Climate change, geopolitics and the current economic system are already driving up the cost of food, but by how much, and where are we most exposed?

In the UK, 1 in 20 meals served is paid for by the government — in schools, hospitals, prisons, and care homes. The ‘public plate’ could be a powerful lever for food system transformation, connecting what we buy and serve to public health, climate goals, and local food economies. Yet too often, public food is seen as a cost to minimise rather than an investment in people and place.

Many decisions about our food system are being made based on data and computer models, but how do we know if these numbers and models are reliable?

We need to make the UK’s food system work better for people and planet – and we have a once in a generation chance, both politically and climatically, to do it.

Transitioning farming practices can feel daunting and risky. Could collective insurance, green financing, mindset change and coaching help?

What do these jabs mean for the UK agri-food system and our ability to shift diets towards those that are healthy, nutritious and sustainable?

We need radical and transformational change in our food system. The scale of the change can sometimes feel overwhelming and paralysing – but we also tend to forget that we’ve done it before, including in living memory, during and after World War 2.

he conversation about a food system transition is becoming louder – but animal welfare is not always getting much of a hearing. What then, might a food system transition mean for the animals in the farmed system? And what might be traded off in a transition, and would these be morally or practically acceptable?

The FFCC will soon publish its final report from this phase of The Food Conversation. The author of that report, Mhairi Brown, presents the report’s main findings in this webinar, a few days ahead of publication.

Two members of the CCC team provide an overview of what the Seventh Carbon Budget means for the wider economy and agriculture and land sectors, and answer questions from AFN members.

In this joint webinar with the FFCC, our speakers share insights from their latest research, which the organisation undertook following concerns raised by citizens in #TheFoodConversation – and explain why questions of power and profit need to rise up the political agenda.