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It’s #EarthDay 🌍 The theme "Our Power, Our Planet" reminds us that the people sustaining our food system must shape its future. At Root and Reason, we embed lived experience in decision-making so that change happens with people, not to them. 🤝 rootandreason.org.uk

I went to a viewing of this film in Pembrokeshire last week. I recommend getting along to a viewing if you can.

And we're off ... AFN Network becomes Root and Reason - the food resilience collective !

It shouldn’t take a war for Britain to wake up to the need for food security | Tim Lang Everyone has a part to play in reducing our reliance on imported foods, but ministers must provide incentives, says Tim Lang of the Centre for Food Policy

It shouldn’t take a war for Britain to wake up to the need for food security | Tim Lang

How could strait of Hormuz closure affect UK food and medicine supplies? Effects of Iran’s blockade will depend on how long crisis lasts as disruption ripples through supply chains

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Implications of Hormuz blockade over two weeks, six weeks and six months

Norway should join the EU, says opposition leader Norwegians voted against joining the EU in 1994. Now it’s time to ask them again, said leader of country’s conservative opposition party.

🚨🚨In the wake of the #EUCO drama a major news is that #Norway has again commenced the political debate on joining the #EuropeanUnion.

NB; Norway is due to its EEA membership already applying most EU single market rules.🧵

www.politico.eu/article/norw...

Land Use Framework How we can use our land more effectively to increase the resilience of our homes, communities, infrastructure, and food systems, while speeding up development and restoring nature.

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published.

I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War.

Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/

www.gov.uk/government/p...

#undersaltmarsh is a weird combination of murder mystery and estuarine hydrology

A fantastic resource, especially if you need a break from the doomscrolling

George Osborne and Ed Balls have used the latest @polcurrency.bsky.social pod to call out @instituteforgovernment.org.uk (among v distinguished company) for our "technocratic obsession" with a single fiscal event a year. Guilty as charged.

THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works In The Story of Capital, the world's foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism. Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of…

For decades, @davidharvey.org has been teaching Marx's work. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.

Strengthening environmental ambition in the proposal for the CAP 2028–2034  - IEEP AISBL This briefing evaluates whether the Commission’s proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2028–2034 are fit to drive the scale of environmental and climate action Europe now needs. Despite some positive steps, the proposed framework could ultimately undermine environmental ambition if key weaknesses in funding, governance and performance monitoring remain unresolved.  

Are @ec.europa.eu proposals for #CAP for the period 2028–2034 fit to drive the scale of environmental and climate action Europe now needs?

Read our latest briefing to find out 👇

Happy 73rd birthday, Poison Ivy of The Cramps

I really wish announcements about new schemes from public funders like the ESRC weren't made via paywalled articles...

Broiler chickens live for about 38-42 days.

Quiet Deliriously Riotous

📚 New research out today ‘Potential Pathways and Solutions to Acute Food System Crisis in the UK’, examines how a serious food crisis could happen in the UK, and what can be done to stop it.

Read in full here: www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...

Yes - the stranded assets paper is well worth a read. The reference to the Guardian is because their journalist claimed the involvement of the Joint Intelligence Committee in the production of the report.

“None of the important issues facing the food system can be adequately addressed without strong underpinning social science.” In this guest feature✍️ @profneilward.bsky.social emphasises a crucial role for social science in transforming the UK’s food system. ➡️ acss.org.uk/transforming...

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

“When I am dead and gone
My Vibrations will live on
In vibes on vinyl through the years
People will dance to my waves”

Mark E. Smith 5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018

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.

I wrote this on UK food system resilience a few weeks back: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

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.

I recently wrote this on UK food system resilience: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

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.

These thoughts from me: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

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.

Here is what I wrote a few weeks back on strengthening UK food system resilience: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

"The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required." re: the challenge of food security under nature collapse.

from a UK govt national security assessment out today…

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

"Without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food" - says Joint Intelligence Cttee. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#afnnetwork.bsky.social

A thoughtful and interesting speech for anyone trying to make sense of what on earth is happening