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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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Invest to adapt
What does government's latest adaptation programme need, to help farming rise to climate challenge?
Sustaining fair, equitable supply chains
FFCC's Lucy Bates explores what's needed to ensure good, nutritious food is available at all times to all citizens.
Food Security? For whom & for how long?
Sue Pritchard asks, who will be speaking for public value at the No 10 Food Security Summit?
It's time for a Land Use Framework
Georgie Barber on the multiple benefits of a Land Use Framework, from public value to coherent policy decisions.
A citizen call to action on food
Dr Courtney Scott on why it’s time to have a national conversation about our food system.
Maximising finite land
A roundtable discussion on achieving the multifunctional use of land in Northern Ireland
Financing farms: Fair data, public value
Dr Jim Scown on the benefits of investing fairly in reliable farm data
Let's talk meat
Dr Courtney Scott on the power and politics at the centre of the meat debate
Should government dictate use of land?
Belinda Gordon on how government can harness the Land Use Framework to meet its ambitions