The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

“These realities highlight why we need to loosen the grip of hydrocarbons on our food system”.
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What Guy says 👇🏼

Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says Company has received about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite claims wood pellets are not sourced sustainably

My periodic reminder for when people get huffy about “subsidising” farmers with payments for public goods, industries are benefiting from public money to do bad things. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trees have other benefits too - food (top fruit, nuts), shelter (my lambs are currently under the trees in the April showers), browsing (my cows enjoy willow and hazel), fuel (we coppice alder and hazel), fibre, materials - sustainable housebuilding needs more forestry products…

Among, it must be said, other things…

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🌱What does the Land Use Framework actually mean in practice?

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New Land Use Framework 'quite the moment for English farming' - 8.9ha New Land Use Framework is a watershed moment for English farming

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Food, farming & land are on the agenda this week in Westminster 🔥

First up, our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social attended a Net Zero Council meeting on Monday with other leaders in govt, business & civil society. With energy & food resilience in the spotlight, these are vital conversations to have...

Don’t forget that one part of the “strategy” is to create distraction, chaos and confusion, while they and their mates are filling their boots.

Epstein files: ‘No one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law’; rights experts demand accountability The large-scale disclosure of materials known as the “Epstein Files” has revealed “disturbing and credible evidence” of what independent human rights experts describe as a possible global criminal ent...

This is something, from UNHRC. news.un.org/en/story/202...

I think the Gorton strategy is all about testing boundaries.

🚨Who really decides what ends up in our kitchens?

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I suspect Reform don’t really want to win in Wales. Being able to agitate from the opposition seats, without the accountability for actually governing, is a safer strategy with their eyes on Westminster.

💸Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social at this year’s OFC Oxford Union debate asking a simple question: where has all the money gone?

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Me too!

📚 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.

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Exactly. And this is part of a growing pattern. People *want* to be able to trust businesses and institutions that shape their lives. It’s about more than food. But let’s start with fixing food.

Can we do that thing where we say “Yes definitely you guys are the main board” and just have our own less stressful and more balanced board somewhere else without telling them?

In better news, 👇 UK is getting on with providing a more secure, affordable and resilient future

Serious quantities of defence materiel are dependent on US tech they declined to share with UK “partners”

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

“It is beyond comprehension that the richest 1% now own three times more than the world’s total public wealth combined.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Elbows up Canada 🇨🇦

🆕New research from @climateoutreach.bsky.social and @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows that the majority of British people want to see “protecting our food supply and supporting British farmers” made a priority in government climate policy.

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This this and thrice this. 👇

Reading this again today. Thanks @adamkahane.bsky.social for holding my feet to the fire.

🗣️”We need to design policy with farmers - not do it to them.”

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🎀An end of year message from Sue Pritchard.

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