FFCC embarks on a new work plan

Today, we publish our Annual Report 25-26 – our impacts, achievements and progress made during the past year. It marks the close of our 23–26 strategy, and the start of an ambitious new work plan. From a groundbreaking programme of citizen engagement to the publication of the Land Use Framework, after years of advocacy, it’s been an eventful year for FFCC. 

As our Chair Martin Nye says, "The scaffolding of change is now in place: a Land Use Framework has been published, a Farming Roadmap has just been released and a Food Strategy is promised. But frameworks alone do not feed a family, restore a river or make a farm resilient – only effective delivery does.

"The task of the next three years is harder, and matters more: making the radical, practical, turning policy into practice, working with the communities, farmers, businesses and local leaders who will make change happen on the ground. That is where we will put our energy – joining up these strategic intentions to transform food systems, to build more resilient and prosperous regionally integrated economies."

This year we embark on an ambitious new strategy, shifting our focus to how to move from policy intentions to real impact on people’s everyday lives. Three priorities will guide us through a new work plan:

Voices: enabling the voices of citizens, farmers and businesses to come together with leaders, and be part of making good decisions about the future.  

Places: bringing together the leaders who hold the responsibility, accountability and resources to make their places thrive – with a clear focus on economic prosperity, resilience and adaptability.

Political economy: surfacing and challenging the taken for granted assumptions that limit progress, to interrogate the political and economic structures that shape our food systems.