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You can now watch the video of our webinar 'From Risk to Resilience: What climate change could cost the UK food system' -Huge thanks to Matthew Stoughton-Harris from the of Grocery Distribution for fascinating insights & answering so many of our audience questions!
👉 tinyurl.com/4dkmznea

Building Partnerships for National Lottery Climate Action Fund - Food Systems - AFN Network+ If you're involved in work that aligns with the kind of food system transformation this fund is supporting, this is a chance to meet potential partners from across the UK.

📢 Join our networking event: 🤝 Building Partnerships for National Lottery Climate Action Fund-Food Systems📅 12/03/26, 1pm. If you're involved in work that aligns with the kind of food system transformation this fund is supporting, this is a chance to meet potential partners👉 tinyurl.com/2jctcbnn

The UK public sector serves millions of meals daily in schools, hospitals&prisons.It should be one of our most powerful tools for food system transformation.So why are the barriers to getting good food onto public plates pretty much unchanged over 20yrs? Read our webinar digest: tinyurl.com/bdfj6etr

From Risk to Resilience: What climate change could cost the UK food system Sign up now for a lively discussion and your Q&A with Matthew Stoughton-Harris from IGD, chaired by Prof Sarah Bridle.

Last chance to sign up for our webinar tomorrow - 'From Risk to Resilience: What climate change could cost the UK food system'
📅 Thursday 26th February 2026, 1:00-2:00pm
Join us to hear Matthew Stoughton-Harris (Head of Resilience at IGD)
Sign up here 👉 tinyurl.com/mu3j924r

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Join Us - AFN Network+ Are you passionate about transforming UK agri-food for net zero? Join our Network and connect with a community of like-minded professionals, researchers, and industry leaders who are dedicated to…

📰 Our Feb newsletter shares a new impact profile from Organic Growers Alliance coordinator Steven Jacobs, details of our next Webinar: 'From Risk to Resilience: What climate change could cost the UK food system', an update from funded project - Slade Farm Organics + lots more!👉

Quick take: What the Oxford farming conferences revealed about the year ahead - AFN Network+ Three sessions at the Oxford and Oxford Real Farming Conferences set the scene for 2026 by highlighting the links between health, food, and social issues, and questioning whether policy ambition can t...

Will policy ambition translate into something farmers, communities and food businesses can actually work with? Our latest digest looks at three sessions from the Oxford Farming Conference and Oxford Real Farming Conference. 👉 tinyurl.com/5n93hpfe

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Taking citizens and communities along with policy changes isn't enough. Actively involving them from the beginning is emerging as one of the most powerful drivers of food systems change. New digest explores the evidence 👉 tinyurl.com/ms6h85ak

From Risk to Resilience: What climate change could cost the UK food system Sign up now for a lively discussion and your Q&A with Matthew Stoughton-Harris from IGD, chaired by Prof Sarah Bridle.

Climate change, geopolitics and the current economic system are already driving up the cost of food, but by how much, and where are we most exposed?
Join our webinar - From Risk to Resilience: What climate change could cost the UK food system 📅 26/02 @1pm👉 tinyurl.com/mu3j924r

BRIEFING: How can we trust the data and computer models shaping our food systems? - AFN Network+ This briefing is based on a webinar discussion given to the AFN Network+ community on the 28th November 2025.

You can now read a briefing of our webinar with Paul Behrens and Juan Pablo Cordero, chaired by Sarah Bridle - 'How can we trust the data and computer models shaping our food systems?' 👉 tinyurl.com/mwrwcxjh

DIGEST: Learning from the Champions, Part 4 - AFN Network+ In this series of digests, we are sharing a little more about the work of the AFN Champ[ions and what we have learned from them.

Our Champions have played a key role supporting us in finding key research gaps holding the UK food system back from transitioning towards NetZero UK by 2050. In a series of digests we explore their work - Next up: Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rounaq Nayak & Georgie Barber👉 tinyurl.com/437pkx9e

The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system - AFN Network+ In the UK, 1 in 20 meals served is paid for by the government — in schools, hospitals, prisons, and care homes. The ‘public plate’ could be a powerful lever for food system transformation, connecting...

You can now watch our webinar from last week where the brilliant Kevin Morgan spoke with us about 'The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system'
👉 tinyurl.com/5d4jvwh7

Digest: National Security Assessment - AFN Network+ Defra has quietly published what should be one of the most significant reports on UK food security in years: a national security assessment of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse - read our...

Defra has quietly published what should be one of the most significant reports on UK food security in years: a national security assessment of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. Read our digest 👉 tinyurl.com/53tmhcaa

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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry 2nd report landed last month-Buried in the detail is something that should concern anyone working on food system transformation: a damning account of why cross-govt action on complex problems is so hard to deliver. Thoughts on why it matters for food 👉
tinyurl.com/4p9fr4kp

We came away from the Oxford Conferences with a lot to think about. The mood across both was of a sector hungry for clarity and increasingly recognising that transformation is coming, whether we shape it or it shapes us. Reflections from Angelina Sanderson Bellamy 👉tinyurl.com/2wpet6kn

'The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system'

Last chance to sign up for our webinar tomorrow - 📅 Wednesday 21st January at 2pm 👉 tinyurl.com/36jvy868

Newsletter - January 2026 - AFN Network+ Find out about our latest webinar, recent FlexFund findings and a new impact profile plus the usual events, opportunities & publications

📰 Our latest newsletter shares a new impact profile from ECR Beckie Lait, an update from one of our Stakeholder FlexFund projects,Better Food Traders,& details of next weeks webinar (The Power of the Public Plate) as well as plenty of other publications, events &opportunities..👉 tinyurl.com/3pdpzyad

DIGEST: Learning from the Champions, Part 3 - AFN Network+ Digest- Learning from the Champions, Part 3. In a series of digests, we are sharing a little more about the work of the AFN Champions and what we have learned from them.

Our Champions have played a key role supporting us in finding key research gaps holding the UK food system back from transitioning towards #NetZero UK by 2050. In a series of digests we explore their work - Next up: Ali Morpeth, Ifeyinwa Kanu & Elta Smith
👉tinyurl.com/y8kuzrvx

Microsoft Forms Date: 20 January 2026 Time: 10am-3pm Location: The Warehouse - Birmingham Friends of the Earth Environmental Community Hub, The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH Food systems transformation...

📢 WORKSHOP: Justice as Catalyst for Food Systems Transformation Workshop
Tuesday 20th January 2026, Birmingham
Our fist in-person event of 2026 will be this workshop co-hosted with our good friends @lunz-hub.bsky.social. Register your interest to join us 👉 tinyurl.com/mwe5mm6z

Happy New Year!We're looking forward to carrying on the Network's activities into 2026 &beyond -Our webinar series will have a particular focus on the new food strategy being developed by Govt, there'll be more newsletters &digests & we're in discussions with potential funders to expand -Stay tuned!

The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system - AFN Network+ In the UK, 1 in 20 meals served is paid for by the government — in schools, hospitals, prisons, and care homes. The ‘public plate’ could be a powerful lever for food system transformation, connecting…

Prof Kevin Morgan has spent >20yrs researching how public institutions can & do serve good food against the odds.Join our webinar to see what we can learn from what's working & what's not: The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system' 21/01 2pm👉 tinyurl.com/36jvy868

Tim Lang: Civil food resilience and UK preparedness for food system shocks - AFN Network+ Renowned food systems thinker and scholar, Prof Tim Lang, has spent the last two years researching the UK food system’s preparedness for shocks. In this webinar he draws on his soon-to-be-published…

More catch-up! Watch Prof Tim Lang discussing his report for the National Preparedness Commission. He’d spent two years researching the UK food system’s preparedness for shocks and his report addresses the state of civil (ie the public’s) food resilience 👉tinyurl.com/45au6sna

Systems Thinking: How to address highly complex problems Anyone who’s tried to unravel and address problems in the agri-food system will know how complex it is: Agri-food researchers, stakeholders and professionals...

Catching up? Why not check out one of our most popular webinars -with Prof Gerald Midgley, foremost authority on the theory & practice of systems thinking and systemic leadership👉 tinyurl.com/385wsrdr
Or browse our back catalogue of webinars/briefings & digests👉 tinyurl.com/4efpj6au

The Roadmap - AFN Network+ The Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050 calls for radical transformation, at a scale and pace not seen since the Second World War. It says if we do not act now, change will be forced upon ...

👀Why not catch up on the details of our Roadmap over the Xmas break - Find digests & briefings on specific aspects, videos from the launch event & webinar plus interesting discussions with some of the authors on our dedicated webpage 👉 tinyurl.com/369s6wuy

Microsoft Forms Date: 20 January 2026 Time: 10am-3pm Location: The Warehouse - Birmingham Friends of the Earth Environmental Community Hub, The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH Food systems transformation...

⚖️Justice as Catalyst for Food Systems Transformation Workshop 🗓️Tues 20th Jan, Birmingham
Join us to develop a Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) framework for considering farming, land use change & healthy eating.
Register your interest👉 tinyurl.com/mwe5mm6z

AFN continues: Thank you and what’s ahead Thanks for all of your support and here's what's coming next....

📢With a huge thanks to everyone who has supported us over the last 3.5 years we'd like to share with you our next steps as we continue into 2026 and beyond....
View full details here 👉tinyurl.com/3e4femsy

The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system - AFN Network+ In the UK, 1 in 20 meals served is paid for by the government — in schools, hospitals, prisons, and care homes. The ‘public plate’ could be a powerful lever for food system transformation, connecting…

'The Power of the Public Plate: How public food can transform the food system' with Professor Kevin Morgan, chaired by Professor Neil Ward
Join us for our January webinar on Wednesday 21st January at 2pm 👉tinyurl.com/36jvy868

Digest: UK Food and Farming Year-in-Review
We dive into the policy and other key milestones of the last year, sum up progress and point out gaps; consider it a festive stocktake of the year in food systems, a reflection and a look forward into 2026.
👉tinyurl.com/y42ar7sd

📰Our latest roundup - Reports from our Champions & updates from a funded project working on peer-to-peer farmer learning about practices to help reach net zero plus the usual publications, events & opportunities....
View👉tinyurl.com/mt8y98b5
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Planeatry Alliance have produced a Business Briefing based on our Roadmap that outlines why transforming the UK food system is both an urgent necessity and a major opportunity for industry leadership -
Full briefing 👉 tinyurl.com/bddxcxn2
Summary 👉 tinyurl.com/h2a8amte