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Stay updated with, and share the latest UK news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups with a focus or interest in food activism, food security, food sovereignty and food justice.
2025
How community projects are building a brighter future for British farms, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Nov 11, 2025) - Sharing soil, sweat and tears, ffcc.co.uk (Oct 30, 2025) — Are farm partnerships the future? We talk to the team behind Abunda to find out
- What if dinner was public infrastructure?, Sower (Oct 29, 2025)
- UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development, theguardian.com (Oct 02, 2025) — Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023
- Citizens, food and next steps, ffcc.co.uk (Sep 29, 2025) — Citizen Advisory Council publish new report, calling for fairness in the new Food Strategy
- Food banks warn demand has reached crisis point, BBC News (Sep 23, 2025)
- Bite Back: the young activists taking on the junk food giants, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 24, 2025)
- UK Gov reveals anticipated new food strategy, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2025) — The Soil Association is among those who remain concerned that the ultra-processed food industry is having too much of an influence on food and health policy (which politicians do finally appear to be linking together)
- Public diners: a taste of the future, nourishscotland.org (Jul 08, 2025)
- Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life, theconversation.com (Jun 06, 2025)
- Farmers 'making a change' to cut carbon emissions, BBC News (Jun 05, 2025)
- Glasgow Seed Library is a collection of seeds and a community of growers [CCA], Daily Alternative (May 13, 2025)
- Citizens to shape new Food Strategy, ffcc.co.uk (May 07, 2025)
- 'Citizen Mandate for Change' reveals a strong public mandate for action to change the way that food is eaten, grown and produced in the UK, ffcc.co.uk (May 06, 2025) — The public want a rethink of the food system – and want it transformed to work for everyone – families, farmers, communities and the planet. There is now a powerful opportunity for governments and citizens to work together towards a healthier, fairer and more secure food future
- WL Meets: Cegin y Bobl – The People’s Kitchen, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Mar 06, 2025)
- Costly nitrogen pollution can be tackled by farmers adopting organic practices, Lords told, soilassociation.org (Mar 05, 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)
- ‘Lush bread – for all.’ Placing affordable loaves where they’re most needed, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025)
- Flour power: the campaign to get real bread to more people, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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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