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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. 🍓🐄🌾
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Joined June 2022
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 👇
📢We are organising our first careers fair aiming to connect early career researchers &students in the #agrifood sector with potential employers. 📆Weds 12th Nov 2pm - Online ECRs & students - apply here👉 https://t.co/hKIMnoFJeW Employers - apply here 👉
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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. 👉 https://t.co/yFDN1aJEhR
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Our co-lead Neil Ward 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:
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Call for new independent environmental regulator in Northern Ireland.
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📢Please join us for 1 or both of our Showcases covering a huge range of topics from social prescribing of healthy foods to climate resilience for agroecological horticulture to reducing hospitality food waste to enterprise stacking for small farms to name just a few! Sign up 👇
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👉 https://t.co/7GIELEYTQ8 ⭐6/11 2pm - More details & book👉
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Today, 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. 👉 https://t.co/uKguZNkMc2
#UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap
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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👉 https://t.co/wgN43sK4iX
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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! Our Knowledge Exchange Fellow @overthefarmgate has digested the key points 👉 https://t.co/vlQw7lPptQ
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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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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👉 https://t.co/7GIELEYTQ8 ⭐6/11 2pm - More details & book👉
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In the second of two sessions, this AFN Network+ Project Showcase will highlight key learnings from our funded projects
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24hours of farming, Westminster, through two lens future resilience https://t.co/SGf8rCt2ar
@AFNnetwork past harvest https://t.co/lIIlAjjrmh
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Three ways to make the UK’s food system more resilient – read this piece by our co-lead Neil Ward via @ConversationUK about our Roadmap for Resilience report👇 https://t.co/RGeDMHbgph
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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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8/ To hear more about the key findings, recommendations and implications for policy and practice, sign up to the webinar: https://t.co/GS0j8bKDN2 Or read our news story: https://t.co/EZ1Zow0523
#UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap
#FoodSecurity #ClimateAction #SustainableFarming
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7/ The report had input from 150 scientists and industry professionals from across research institutes, farming, charities and the food industry, and is the culmination of three years of work by the AFN Network+.
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6/ The report calls for decisive and coordinated action, and proposes 10 key recommendations, with a timeline up to 2050. These include: - Placing food security on a par with energy security - Creating a National Food System Transformation Committee - Reform ag subsidies
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5/ Healthier diets: Healthy and sustainable eating will be easy, accessible and desirable.
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4/ Smarter land use: UK landscapes will provide multiple benefits through integrated management – sequestering carbon, producing food, enhancing biodiversity and building climate resilience.
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3/ The Roadmap for Resilience report identifies three core transformations: More resilient farming, adapting in a way that supports farmers and rural economies, and builds national resilience.
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2/ Change to our food system is inevitable over the next 50 years, but we have an opportunity. If we act now, we have time to shape the future, not be shaped by it. At the same time, we can positively impact national security, national health, economic growth and climate change.
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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: https://t.co/m2YURgin8I
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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!👇
📢We are organising our first careers fair aiming to connect early career researchers &students in the #agrifood sector with potential employers. 📆Weds 12th Nov 2pm - Online ECRs & students - apply here👉 https://t.co/hKIMnoFJeW Employers - apply here 👉
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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 👉 https://t.co/TNw2sVaaQO
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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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