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On a mission to bring together key thinkers, leaders and stakeholders, to drive our food & farming system towards a net zero UK by 2050. UKRI funded. 🍓🐄🌾
https://www.agrifood4netzero.net/
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#COP30 kicks off next week in Belém, on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest – could food and farming systems play a bigger role finally? Check out our interview with Emma Williams, of Chatham House on this topic 👉
DIGEST: COP30 with Emma Williams, Chatham House - AFN Network+
COP30 kicks off next week in Belém, on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest – could food and farming systems play a bigger role finally? Jez spoke with Emma Williams, of Chatham House, to find out…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📰 In our latest newsletter you can find out more about our Project Showcases (happening over the next 2 days), catch up on all of our Roadmap activity and see a roundup of reports, events, funding & opportunities in the #agrifood space. View here👉 tinyurl.com/yfmxww83
AFN Network+ Newsletter: Issue 29, November 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Join us next week to hear reports from our Scoping Studies on a range of topics from social prescribing of healthy foods to climate resilience for agroecological horticulture &from Stakeholder Flexfund holders on everything from reducing hospitality food waste to enterprise stacking for small farms👇
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Project Showcase Event! ~20 of our funded projects will be presenting across 2 days with opportunities for Q&A's & small group discussions with the presenters.
⭐5/11 2pm - More details & book👉 tinyurl.com/2zupjjmc
⭐6/11 2pm - More details & book👉 tinyurl.com/yh5e452b
AFN Network+ Project Showcase
Over two separate sessions, the AFN Network+ Project Showcase will highlight key learnings from our funded projects
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October 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🌱 The new roadmap from the @afnnetwork.bsky.social advocates for a UK food system transformation on a scale not seen since the Second World War.

We agree that the need for change has never been more urgent. When it comes to food and farming, business as usual is no longer an option.
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Poor diets cost the UK in health, productivity & quality of life - change is a win–win. Read our latest digest on what our Roadmap for Resilience report says about how we can make healthier diets easier for everyone.
👉 tinyurl.com/37z979x4
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an illustration of a high street in 2050, including shops selling fresh produce, healthy eating environments and plant based food. Text reads 'A UK Food Plan for 2050'.
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Our co-lead @profneilward.bsky.social joined BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today to discuss the Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, and what needs to change to build a fairer, healthier, more resilient food system for the UK.

🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/3ee88y3k
Farming Today - 23/10/25 Environmental regulation in Northern Ireland. Malting barley for beer. Food system report - BBC Sounds
Call for new independent environmental regulator in Northern Ireland.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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This week, we’re diving into what our Roadmap for Resilience report says about land. How do we need to transform land use to support a resilient, sustainable food system & healthy diets? Our digest breaks it down.
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DIGEST: Roadmap for Resilience; land transition - AFN Network+
In this Digest, we’re looking at the transformation the Roadmap report says needs to happen to our land, to ensure a more resilient and sustainable sector that supports healthy diets.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Are you an employer or a student/ECR working in the #agrifood space? Please join us for our careers fair on Weds 12th November 2 - 3:50pm - Sign up details below 👇
afnnetwork.bsky.social AFN Network+ @afnnetwork.bsky.social · Oct 7
📢We are organising our first careers fair aiming to connect early career researchers and students in the agri-food sector with potential employers.
📆Weds 12th Nov 2pm - Online
ECRs & students - please apply here👉 tinyurl.com/ynjkrh7c
Employers - please apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2vuawxkr
Application form to attend the AFN Network+ Careers Fair
Thank you very much for your interest in attending the AFN Network+ Careers Fair as a potential job applicant. The event will be held on Wednesday 12th November 2pm-3.50pm and the employers will inclu...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Stronger, more resilient farming - that's one of the three core transformations set out in our Roadmap for Resilience report, published last week. For more on the vision for farming, the co-benefits and the priority actions, read our digest👉 tinyurl.com/mf2zrjby
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Image shows what a farm might look like in 2050. Text reads 'UK Food Plan for 2050'.
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Did you see that we published our Roadmap for Resilience report last week, but haven't had time to dig into the detail?
No problem! We've digested the key points for you 👇 🔗tinyurl.com/5n7eet6r

#UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap
DIGEST: Roadmap for Resilience; key points and priority actions - AFN Network+
AFN’s report, Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, is published today. It brings together three years of work, with contributions from 150+ people in the Network. So what does it say?
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October 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Project Showcase Event! ~20 of our funded projects will be presenting across 2 days with opportunities for Q&A's & small group discussions with the presenters.
⭐5/11 2pm - More details & book👉 tinyurl.com/2zupjjmc
⭐6/11 2pm - More details & book👉 tinyurl.com/yh5e452b
AFN Network+ Project Showcase
Over two separate sessions, the AFN Network+ Project Showcase will highlight key learnings from our funded projects
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October 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient - read this piece in @uk.theconversation.com by our co-lead @profneilward.bsky.social about our Roadmap for Resilience report.

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Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient – according to new report by 150 experts
Modelling shows that we will need to change not just how we farm, but what farming produces and what we eat.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Are you an employer in the #agrifood space or an early career researcher/student interested in working in the #agrifood space? Check out the below & apply to join us on the 12th November for our careers fair!👇
afnnetwork.bsky.social AFN Network+ @afnnetwork.bsky.social · Oct 7
📢We are organising our first careers fair aiming to connect early career researchers and students in the agri-food sector with potential employers.
📆Weds 12th Nov 2pm - Online
ECRs & students - please apply here👉 tinyurl.com/ynjkrh7c
Employers - please apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2vuawxkr
Application form to attend the AFN Network+ Careers Fair
Thank you very much for your interest in attending the AFN Network+ Careers Fair as a potential job applicant. The event will be held on Wednesday 12th November 2pm-3.50pm and the employers will inclu...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2.

Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy

#UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap
The title of the image is A national opportunity for positive transformational change. The image shows a vision for how land, diet and farming could be transformed by 2050, with farming which is more mixed, low carbon tech and more resilient, land where farming and livestock are more integrated, peatlands restored and landscapes are being used for multiple purposes. And diets where people are shopping and fruit and green veg is more accessible. Text on the image shows that if these three transformations can be achieved, then they will result in benefits including billions saved in healthcare, strengthened national resilience, healthy food, improved water quality, new rural jobs and enhanced biodiversity.
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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'Roadmap for Resilience – a UK Food Plan for 2050'🗓️22/10 3pm
>350 people have already registered- Join to find out more about our plan for transforming the UK #agrifood system to be healthier, more resilient & that contributes to a net zero UK by 2050. 👉 tinyurl.com/2xyvhyx8
Roadmap for Resilience – a UK Food Plan for 2050
Presenting the AFN Network+ Roadmap; our plan for transforming the UK agri-food system to be healthier, more resilient, and lower emissions.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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& now for a look beyond the headlines from our Knowledge Exchange expert, Jez Fredenburgh, & Champion for policy: food systems nutrition and health, Ali Morpeth
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afnnetwork.bsky.social AFN Network+ @afnnetwork.bsky.social · Oct 9
We've put together the EAT-Lancet headlines (for anyone who still needs to catch up)... full digest on our website 👉 tinyurl.com/28ch2ex6 & a great article on the report here tinyurl.com/m5mh82me - written by our fab Champion AliMorpeth
DIGEST: Eat-Lancet, the headlines - AFN Network+
The EAT-Lancet headlines (for anyone who still needs to catch up)...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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We've put together the EAT-Lancet headlines (for anyone who still needs to catch up)... full digest on our website 👉 tinyurl.com/28ch2ex6 & a great article on the report here tinyurl.com/m5mh82me - written by our fab Champion AliMorpeth
DIGEST: Eat-Lancet, the headlines - AFN Network+
The EAT-Lancet headlines (for anyone who still needs to catch up)...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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We've digested a handful of the latest reports & news articles in the #agrifood space - this time including
reports from Green Aliance, Eating better & IGD plus
a diet plan proposed to Defra & citizens working on the food strategy... Full digests here 👉 tinyurl.com/4xfynr86
DIGEST: Key reports and news on food systems and climate - AFN Network+
Here are some of the key reports and news on food systems and climate, digested, so you don’t have to.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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📢We are organising our first careers fair aiming to connect early career researchers and students in the agri-food sector with potential employers.
📆Weds 12th Nov 2pm - Online
ECRs & students - please apply here👉 tinyurl.com/ynjkrh7c
Employers - please apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2vuawxkr
Application form to attend the AFN Network+ Careers Fair
Thank you very much for your interest in attending the AFN Network+ Careers Fair as a potential job applicant. The event will be held on Wednesday 12th November 2pm-3.50pm and the employers will inclu...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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📰 In our latest newsletter you can find out more about our Roadmap Launch & Webinar along with updates from some of our funded projects and the usual round-up of events & opportunities in the #agrifood space👉 tinyurl.com/47sb9b8k
AFN Network+ Newsletter: Issue 28, October 2025
The latest agri-food and climate news, resources and opportunities
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October 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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"It's so easy to stand up on a stage and say things are urgent, it doesn't change anything." says Corinna Hawkes of @fao.org about how we need address many problems with our food systems in slower ways that invest in people who make connections.

Listen to the podcast episode here: buff.ly/ZaLgbV7
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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👀You can now read the full briefing from our webinar 'Could weight-loss jabs help or hinder sustainable dietary shift?'👉 tinyurl.com/9k7cje79
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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📃 Our team have digested another raft of the latest key reports and news on food systems and climate covering the latest on health inequalities, school meals, lobbying by food industry, a sustainability framework for farmers & much more 👉 tinyurl.com/4am62du3
DIGEST: Key reports and news on food systems and climate - AFN Network+
It’s been a busy end to the summer and start to the Autumn! Here are some of the key reports and news on food systems and climate, digested, so you don’t have to.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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⛈️More than half of British farmers worry cost of extreme weather could stop them farming👩🌾

We thought this research, commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (EICU) was worth a closer look - Full digest here👉tinyurl.com/38kh83j3
DIGEST: More than half of British farmers worry cost of extreme weather could stop them farming - AFN Network+
This digest summarises research, commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (EICU) and carried out by Grounded Research, on the impact of climate change on British farms and farmers’…
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September 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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🙏With big thanks to all of the participants and speakers - a video of our latest webinar 'De-risking the farming transition – what can we do?' is now available - 👀View now 👉tinyurl.com/mr3ukdhm
(briefing to follow)
afnnetwork.bsky.social AFN Network+ @afnnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 11
📢Last chance to sign up for tomorrow's webinar 'De-risking the farming transition – what can we do?
Friday 12 September 10:00-11:00am 👉tinyurl.com/25x56fy3
De-risking the farming transition – what can we do? - AFN Network+
Transitioning farming practices can feel daunting and risky. Could collective insurance, green financing, mindset change and coaching help?
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September 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM