Webinar

What do these jabs mean for the UK agri-food system and our ability to shift diets towards those that are healthy, nutritious and sustainable?

We need radical and transformational change in our food system. The scale of the change can sometimes feel overwhelming and paralysing – but we also tend to forget that we’ve done it before, including in living memory, during and after World War 2.

he conversation about a food system transition is becoming louder – but animal welfare is not always getting much of a hearing. What then, might a food system transition mean for the animals in the farmed system? And what might be traded off in a transition, and would these be morally or practically acceptable?

The FFCC will soon publish its final report from this phase of The Food Conversation. The author of that report, Mhairi Brown, presents the report’s main findings in this webinar, a few days ahead of publication.

Two members of the CCC team provide an overview of what the Seventh Carbon Budget means for the wider economy and agriculture and land sectors, and answer questions from AFN members.

In this joint webinar with the FFCC, our speakers share insights from their latest research, which the organisation undertook following concerns raised by citizens in #TheFoodConversation – and explain why questions of power and profit need to rise up the political agenda.

Oxford University economist Alex Teytelboym sets out a new approach to scaling investment in nature recovery in conversation with Emily Norton, AFN Network+ Policy Champion, and natural capital markets expert.

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 report for the National Preparedness Commission which addresses the state of civil (ie the public’s) food resilience.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast opening up a world of new possibilities in multiple areas – and a lot of questions too. For food and farming, a big question is whether and how it can help us reduce emissions faster, in what is a critical decade for tackling climate change. In this whistle stop tour of what AI might mean for crop and livestock production, we also discuss the risks, unintended consequences and trade-offs.

Individual irresponsibility – that’s the reason we’re all overweight, unhealthy and eating unsustainable diets, right? If you agreed with the dominant political messaging of the last few years, then you’d answer yes. But there’s a growing recognition that our environment – the shops and food available in our neighbourhoods, the advertising we see, how different foods are costed and displayed, etc – is the main driver of dietary habits.