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2025
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WL Meets: Cegin y Bobl – The People’s Kitchen, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Mar 06, 2025) - The UK’s food system is broken. A green new deal for agriculture could be revolutionary, theconversation.com (Feb 28, 2025)
- The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers, theconversation.com (Feb 26, 2025)
- Flour power: the campaign to get real bread to more people, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025)
- ‘Lush bread – for all.’ Placing affordable loaves where they’re most needed, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025)
- The bakery that offers pay-as-you-can-afford bread, positive.news (Feb 18, 2025)
- Urgent action needed to ensure UK food security, report warns, theguardian.com (Feb 06, 2025) — The report highlights the potential of copying grassroots initiatives, which are often working ahead of central government to ensure communities are resilient to shocks to food supplies.
2024
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- UK 'not ready' for extreme weather like Storm Darragh, BBC News (Dec 08, 2024) — "There are risks to our food yields, there are risks to where we can build safe homes for people, and risks to our towns and cities which are built on coastlines. These things are very obvious and we should be acting now to tackle them.", Emma Pinchbeck, head of the Climate Change Committee
- SPRING: From its ambition to create an "urban croft" (or food producer) in the heart of Leith, Earth In Common is becoming a powerful CAN, Daily Alternative (Nov 21, 2024)
- UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, far outstripping the budget for the whole NHS, theguardian.com (Nov 15, 2024)
- There’s many that make a claim for the stabilising and liberating effect of basic income. Landworkers and farmers have one of the best cases, Daily Alternative (Oct 10, 2024)
- All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 09, 2024)
- The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
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- Flour to the people: the Scottish collective working to democratise better bread, positive.news (Sep 23, 2024)
- ‘The system is the problem, not people’: how a radical food group spread round the world, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — Incredible Edible’s guerrilla gardening movement encourages people to take food-growing – and more – into their own hands. “The biggest obstacle is the inability of people in elected positions to cede power to the grassroots,” Pam Warhurst
- A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 14, 2024) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong reports
- Fruit & veg deserts & the death knoll of the local greengrocer, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 23, 2024) — Is there a way back?
- Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
- Floods fuelled 19% drop in income from farming in England in 2023, theguardian.com (Jul 12, 2024)
- Home-grown: A roadmap to resilient fruit and vegetable production in England. A collaboration, 360 report published by The Soil Association, Sustain and The Wildlife Trusts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 03, 2024) — the report outlines seven steps to restore resilience to the horticulture sector
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- Food Conversation inviting local communities to host their own event and join unique UK-wide conversation about food, ffcc.co.uk (Jun 19, 2024) — Hundreds of people have taken part in The Food Conversation over the past year with more conversations to come in London, Cornwall, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
- What are the embryonic initiatives that quickly and radically transform society? Maybe ours will be gardens, suggests Greg Frey, Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2024)
- It's time to listen closely to farmers, Dr Charlie Taverner: real food security starts with rebuilding confidence, ffcc.co.uk (May 13, 2024)
- Is this the blueprint for a food bank that’s more human?, positive.news (Mar 26, 2024)
- ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)
- ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
2023
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- Manchester-based artist collaborates with young activists to challenge the UK’s damaging industrial food system, greenpeace.org.uk (Dec 13, 2023) — A group of young people from Greater Manchester have been inspired to think more about activism and to challenge the UK’s damaging industrial food system through taking part in a project initiated by Manchester-based artist Fauziya Johnson
- Citizens are hungry for change, ffcc.co.uk (Sep 25, 2023) — New report shows the UK public overwhelmingly back state intervention to improve the food system
- Half of Britain’s fruit and veg growers ‘may go out of business within a year’, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Sep 19, 2023)
- New report reveals nearly a quarter of UK shopping basket at high risk from climate change, mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk (Sep 13, 2023)
- New food hub opens in Devon, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 31, 2023)
- How community markets for all could be a sustainable alternative to food banks, theconversation.com (Aug 02, 2023)
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- A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 31, 2023) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong
- Campaigners win right to challenge England’s food strategy over climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 16, 2023)
- Cultural connections in the classroom, Wicked Leeks (Jun 08, 2023)
- New food trail links people with sustainable food, Wicked Leeks (Jun 05, 2023)
- Riverford completes sale of shares from Guy Singh-Watson, Wicked Leeks (May 19, 2023) — Organic veg box company is celebrating five years of employee ownership by completing the buyout of founder Guy Singh-Watson.
- New People’s Plan for Food seeks input, Wicked Leeks (May 04, 2023)
- What do we think of when we think of luxury? A Walthamstow cafe that does magic with salvaged surplus food profoundly answers the question, The Daily Alternative (Feb 07, 2023)
2022
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- We call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security, CPRE (Jul 20, 2022) — There’s been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found. And 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding. As a result, we’re telling government we need a land strategy and new planning rules to safeguard our food security
- Rooting for farmers, Wicked Leeks (Jul 04, 2022) — Former barrister and author Sarah Langford tells Nina Pullman why she wrote the defence case for farming and why the regenerative movement offers an escape from exploitive agribusiness.
- How filling the UK’s unused land with fruit and veg could help make us and our environment healthier - and help fight inequality, The Conversation (May 17, 2022)
- In a hardscrabble Liverpool location, a community "pantry" (not a food bank) feeds both bodies and souls, The Daily Alternative (May 11, 2022)
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- Fringe Farming Report Reveals Green Recovery Potential, ShefFood (Mar 18, 2022)
- There are solutions to the food crisis. But ploughing up Britain isn’t one of them. George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 16, 2022)
- New grants to help communities tackle food and climate change, sustainweb.org (Feb 28, 2022) — Grants of up to £5,000 are open to any local food partnership, local authority or community group in the UK.
- How community ownership can secure the UK’s food security through buying family farms, Stir to Action (Feb 03, 2022) — How a national crisis of family-owned farms presents an opportunity for a new generation of community owners
- A startling UK map showing how much we use land for animal agriculture - and how much solar is crowded out, The Alternative UK (Jan 24, 2022)
- Protein from gorse bushes could feed millions of people, says expert, The Guardian (Jan 10, 2022)
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