💡How farmers adapt to extreme weather are the same ways they can reduce on-farm emissions. 🌱 Liz Bowles, @farmcarbontoolkit.bsky.social CEO, talks about how changing weather presents an opportunity for farmers to help tackle climate change and stay resilient to climate-related drought and flooding.

🥬 With possible food shortages and failed harvests dominating headlines, it’s clear the public see food as a critical part of the UK’s national resilience – and want politicians to act.

💡Good interview with @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social on the today about the leadership we need to see on climate change. 🌻 As Emma says, building more resilient, adaptive systems is an investment, not a cost, for our long-term national health, prosperity and security.

🗣️ “Let’s start talking much more seriously about the precautionary principle, the polluter paying & the lobbyists” 🏡 Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social talking at @cprecountryside.bsky.social's Land Use Conference about why we need more honest conversations about how corporate power really works.

👎 Yet more evidence of how Big Food frighten governments around the world into weakening or delaying policies designed to protect our health. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

🥦 Across parties, food matters to the public & they want political ambition to reflect this. 🌱 With new leadership in government, this is a real opportunity for imaginative, ambitious food policy that drives regional economic growth, improves health outcomes & makes Britain a fairer place to live.

💡Interesting points from @neweconomics.bsky.social's Danny Sriskandarajah this morning on some of the reforms @andyburnham.bsky.social could bring in to grow the real economy and revitalise local high streets. Read a briefing we made earlier for Labour Party Conference: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

Citizens are ready to bring solutions 💥 💪 In this 📽, members of the Citizen Advisory Council tell us why they got involved – and what citizens can uniquely offer politicians and policymakers working on food.

📝New blog: Where next? Manchesterism and the Farming Roadmap tinyurl.com/yvyr8tcr ❓Could devolving more farming powers work? FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner asks how the government’s new Farming Roadmap could align with Andy Burnham’s big play of handing power and resources to Britain’s communities.

🔥 “The bravery of government will be judged on the extent to which they accept citizen perspectives” ⭐ Great @foodfoundation.bsky.social Pod Bites with Sustainable Food Cornwall's Matthew Thomson on a new report from the Citizen Advisory Council. 👉 Listen: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

💯 “Food isn’t a middle class ambition, it’s something most people want to achieve” 📽️ Here, citizens share how food fits into their lives & why they care about it. Across the UK, people, communities & businesses are working against the odds to change food – but conditions are limiting progress.

🗣 “The Citizen Advisory Council’s vital work shines a light on the values we want to see in our food system that are already alive in communities across England” 💯 We couldn’t agree more @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social, DEFRA Farming Minister.

💥New citizen-led report shows what works and what’s getting in the way of good food. Read 'From the Ground Up' here ffcc.co.uk/publications...

🌾Heading to Groundswell next week? The FFCC team are out in force across the two days, joining some of the leading voices in food and farming to dig into the big questions facing the sector – and how to get to the future we all want. Here’s where you can find us…

🚨Webinar tomorrow - spaces running low: tinyurl.com/4bddrwny 🍏What happens when citizens are given a seat at the table when it comes to influencing policy? 🍽️Join us to explore a new report from the Citizen Advisory Council, who have been working with Defra on the Good Food Cycle.

📣 Yesterday, David Smith MP, referenced our report ‘Paying The Price’ at Westminster Hall. Report here: ffcc.co.uk/publications... 🗣️“The FFCC reports that the productivity of farming increased by 60% from the 1970s to the 2020s, but farming incomes have not increased in line with that.”

🎯 “It’s citizens who give government and business the license to operate and the legitimacy to get the the food system they really want” 🍎 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social talking about who’s responsible for changing food at The Conduit's Climate & the Future of Health conference at #LCAW2026.

🫐 “The challenge is no longer simply whether poverty is spoken about, but who gets to speak, and what happens when communities long spoken about begin speaking back." - Dominic Watters Read Dominic's blog here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🔥 What happens when citizens are given a seat at the table when it comes to influencing policy? 🗣️ Join us and @foodfoundation.bsky.social as we talk to some of the citizens involved in the food strategy 📅 30 June, 10-11am. Online. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🗣️“How does power work in the system, and what can we do to shift it in favour of a fairer, greener and healthier future?” ✨FFCC Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social is giving the keynote speech for Food Systems Track at @theconduitlondon.bsky.social Climate and the Future of Health 2026 conference.

⚖️ @suepritch.bsky.social argues that while advertising is visible and measurable, lobbying often happens out of sight. If the public can’t see who is influencing decisions, it becomes harder to have confidence that the system is working fairly. 👀 Read the full blog now ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

💸 New blog: The Hidden Bill ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🌿 In a new blog, FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social explores why food industry lobbying & spending remains so difficult to track, and what that means for transparency and public trust.

🌾 Join FFCC Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social, Rt Hon George Eustice, Sophie Gregory & Patrick Holden CEO of @susfoodtrust.bsky.social for a conversation on the policy and politics of farming at Ark Summit 2026. 📅 19 June 2026 , The Cotswolds Tickets here: www.arkce.com/summit-26

💥FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social will be speaking at @cprecountryside.bsky.social (CPRE)'s Centenary Conference on 25th June on ‘Land - the taboo topic’. ⏳Tickets running low. Get yours now: www.cpre.org.uk/land-use-con... 📍 UCL East, Stratford 📅 25 June (1/6)

🙄Disappointing to see some food businesses push back against policies designed to help people eat more healthily and protect public health. Full article www.ft.com/content/a5b4...

👉“The weather is a massive influence on farming. It always has been, but it seems particularly acute now with dry summers, wet winters…the patterns, the cycles are different.” Farmer Ian Wilkinson @realfarmed.bsky.social on how risks facing farming have changed over his career - including weather.

🌾Heading to the Royal Cornwall Show this week? Don’t miss our Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social as she explores the big questions facing food and farming in Cornwall and across the UK – from food security to net zero. You can catch Sue at the following sessions… [cont.d]

📽️Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social on her recent @observeruk.bsky.social piece, the conversations she’s taking part in over the next month, an how we’re getting the voices of citizens and farmers to politicians and policymakers. Read the article observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

🚀With food prices rocketing, unpredictable weather & geopolitical instability continuing to disrupt harvests, food and farming are starting to matter in British politics. Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social asks in @theobserveruk.bsky.social: will politicians meet this moment? tinyurl.com/wyjjfbyz

✨ Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social is giving the keynote speech for the food systems track at The Conduit's Climate and the Future of Health 2026 conference. 📍The Conduit London 🗓️ Monday 22 June 2026, 11:45-11:55 More: live.theconduit.com/climate-and-...