Our work

Lesser heard voices must be at the table for a food and farming future that works for everyone. Meaningful engagement with farmers, progressive businesses and communities can help decision-makers spot the gaps in policy, find new and creative solutions, and help ensure people stay invested and receptive to the policies that ultimately affect them.

Our work focuses on deliberative public engagement at national scale, structured farmer dialogue, and convening for a different food economy – policy built with people, not just for them. 

What makes a place resilient? Often the barriers stand outside the usual food system boundaries – in decisions made locally, regionally and nationally.

Collaborating with partners in places, we will explore how we can create healthy, thriving and prosperous communities across the UK – and resource and share the practical, inspiring stories that show another way is possible. This means long-term partnerships with counties, councils, businesses and communities, working out what a fair transition really looks like where people live and work.

Every food system question – why healthy food costs more than it should, why farmers carry the risk while others take the margin, why land use decisions ignore the people who live with them – is, underneath, a question about rules and power. Who sets the incentives? Who bears the costs? Who is in the room?

Through rigorous, independent research and economic analysis, we reframe the debate around food systems, challenging the assumptions and barriers that limit progress. By interrogating the political and economic structures that shape our food systems, we identify the levers for transformative change to create a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food economy.