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Growth is not the same as public value
FFCC Chief Exec Sue Pritchard on what kind of economic choices build the country we want to live in.
The Hidden Bill
How much does the food industry spend lobbying government?
The road to food security
FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner on war in the Middle East and what the food system can learn from the green energy transition.
Voices from outside FFCC
Guest Blogs
Held Hostage
Professor Tim Jackson on the way Big Food is still hijacking public health and undermining public finances.
“Blueberry vapes, no blueberries”
Dominic Watters on what council estate food environments reveal about Britain’s food system
Crisis as catalyst
Pasture for Life’s Jimmy Woodrow on the need to speed the farming transition
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Making more effective land use decisions
FFCC's Georgie Barber speaking at Westminster Social Policy Forum, on the need for joined up policymaking in land use.
Recording: Sue Pritchard's OFC Oxford Union Debate
Sue debates the motion: "This house believes that in 90 years farming will be a one day a week job"
Land use strategies across the UK
FFCC Northern Ireland Director John Woods on how a Land Use Framework can work across the four nations.
“We need to design policy with farmers”
An excerpt from Mayor of York & North Yorkshire David Skaith’s keynote speech at the Oxford Conferences’ Welcome Dinner 2026.
In 90 years, farming will be a one day a week job?
Our Chief Exec Sue Pritchard’s speech, opposing the motion in this year’s OFC Oxford Union Debate.
How can farmers and food workers care?
Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.
The high price of cheap food
Professor Tim Jackson asks who’s counting the cost of our national diet.
Farming needs a story that inspires
Dr Charlie Taverner on schooldays, stories and the need for leadership on food and farming.
We Need To Talk About... Nature
Will Evans is joined by Holly Purdey and James Robinson to talk about what it really means to farm with nature.