This month: Book your place at Big Tent 2025, apply for next year’s ECR Board, sign up for our webinar on AI and food … and more
A digest of Henry Dimbleby and Dr Dolly van Tulleken’s report, Nourishing Britain: a Political Manual for Improving the Nation’s Health. The report is a how-to (and how not-to) manual for current and future politicians about tackling the UK’s diet-related ill-health. With thanks to our Policy Champion, Ali Morpeth, for her help digesting it.
This report, authored by the UK government’s former food policy advisor Henry Dimbleby and public health expert Dr Dolly van Tulleken, draws on interviews with an unprecedented number of former prime ministers, health secretaries and other senior ministers to offer practical advice and insights on how today’s politicians can tackle to UK’s obesity crisis.
Individual irresponsibility – that’s the reason we’re all overweight, unhealthy and eating unsustainable diets, right? If you agreed with the dominant political messaging of the last few years, then you’d answer yes. But there’s a growing recognition that our environment – the shops and food available in our neighbourhoods, the advertising we see, how different foods are costed and displayed, etc – is the main driver of dietary habits.
Find our more about our new Champion for Just Transition and Citizen Engagement, and webinars on behaviour change and inheritance tax.
This report by Professor Tim Jackson, commissioned by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) offers a comprehensive estimate of the food-related cost of chronic disease, caused by the UK’s current food system.
As UNFCC COP29 kicks off in Azerbaijan, an oil-producing, authoritarian state. What could negotiations this year, mean for food and farming? Our co-lead, Prof Tim Benton, has spent much of his career working with governments around the world on climate change and food system transformation. He’s been to many COPs and gives his assessment.
What could the impact be on farming and its ability to weather the changes ahead and lead the transition to a more sustainable food system? How might the changes affect farmers’ ability to reduce emissions or enter into natural capital markets and contracts?
This month: Our new round of scoping studies starts work, updates on the budget, an inheritance tax webinar … and more
A quick update on the implications for food and health of the Autumn Budget.
A quick update on the implications for farming and the countryside of the Autumn Budget.
What could the Labour government do if it really wanted to tackle the issues in the food system? And was has it already done?
