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Transforming food and agriculture through a systems approach

This report by the FAO clarifies what a systems approach involves in practice across agrifood systems, explaining what a systems approach means in the context of agrifood systems, why it matters and how to adopt it with concrete case studies.

Fuel us, don’t food us

This report by Bite Back investigates the 10 biggest global food and drink businesses operating in the UK and looking at their sales of packaged food and drinks products. It found that the majority of the biggest food and drink manufacturers – 7 out of 10 — rely on selling unhealthy products in the UK.

Understanding Moments of Change in Food Systems Transformation

This report brings qualitative examples of food system transformation bought together from the experiences of a group of organisations working at the country level, often together, in close partnership with governments and local organisations.

Hidden cost of tuna

This report presents an investigation into the discrimination and poor working conditions endured by many Ivorian and Senegalese crew members working on board European-owned tuna purse seine vessels operating in the Indian Ocean.

Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us

Health journalist, Julia Belluz, and nutrition and metabolism scientist, Kevin Hall, discuss the myths about nutrition to deliver a comprehensive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.

Sustainable Food Consumption in China

This book investigates the current and potential roles of food consumption to address sustainability challenges in China. It unpacks the complex foodscape in contemporary Chinese cities, from traditional wet markets to online deliveries, from supermarkets to farmers markets and alternative food providers, to understand the values and practices promoting and hindering sustainability in food consumption.

Amid starvation in Gaza, Sudan, Guterres slams hunger ‘as a weapon of war’

As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israel’s decision to support a “one-week scale-up” of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave.

A Fairer Food Future: Can Wales Lead the Way?

How can we reshape the food system to provide fair access to healthy food, reduce pressure on the NHS and provide a fair deal to farmers?The Abergavenny Food Festival Conference promises to continue the ongoing dialogue about the future of food in Wales. At a time when Wales is grappling with intertwined crises of public health, ecological degradation, and rural economic fragility, this conference offers a space for robust discussion, visioning, and solution-building.While food has never been cheaper in relative terms, far too many individuals and families are unable to afford even a basic healthy diet. The burden of preventable diseases such as diabetes weighs heavily on the health system, costing Wales an estimated £500 million annually. Alarmingly, one in four children is overweight or obese before even starting school. Meanwhile, Welsh farmers struggle with diminishing margins and policy uncertainty.This event is a call to action: to explore where meaningful policy levers exist, and how Wales might harness its devolved powers in procurement, public health, education, and farming to pioneer a food system that is healthier, more equitable, and ecologically sound. By convening industry leaders, policy experts, food producers, and public stakeholders, the conference aims to co-create a manifesto for change, one that is grounded in the realities of Welsh life but visionary in scope. It will explore not only what must change, but how to drive that change in practice.Miller Research is proud to deliver this important event in partnership with the Abergavenny Food Festival, the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner, and Professor Kevin Morgan. This is an opportunity for all those who care about the health, sustainability, and resilience of Wales’ food future to have their say.IDEAL ATTENDEES MAY INCLUDE:Policy makersAcademics and researchersFarmers and food producersHealth and nutrition advocatesThird sector and community organisationsRetailers and Food Industry RepresentativesJournalists, writers and influencersAnyone who has a passion for food policy, health care, sustainability or social equityEXPERT PANELISTS:Sue Pritchard: Chief Executive of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission. FFCC is an independent UK charity that brings together people and ideas from different perspectives to find the practical and radical solutions which also tackle the climate, nature, health and economic crises of our time.Professor Kevin Morgan: Professor of Governance and Development at Cardiff University. He has worked with the European Commission, the OECD and urban and regional governments throughout Europe on place-based innovation strategies.Tim Jackson: Ecological economist and writer. Since 2016 he has been Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). CUSP is a multidisciplinary research centre which aims to understand the economic, social and political dimensions of sustainable prosperity.Derek Walker: The second ever Future Generations Commissioner, having started the role on March 1, 2023, when he called for ‘urgent and transformational change’ in Wales. Previously he was chief executive of Cwmpas, the UK’s largest co-operative development agency.Jenny McConnel: has been working at the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales for the last three and a half years. She works with the ‘Implementation and Impact’ mission to support bodies who come under the Act to achieve the most impact. She also works on the Health mission, which is supporting public bodies to prioritise prevention and support the building blocks of health – including food systems change and reducing obesogenic environments.Nick Miller: Director of Abergavenny-based Miller Research (UK) Ltd, a public policy consultancy with a strong commitment to ethical working and decarbonisation across all sectors of economy and society. He has led the company for more than 20 years, recently taking it through employee ownership and B Corp status. Nick has worked extensively on food and drink policy and practice in Wales and is passionately committed to building a resilient healthy food system. Outside the day job he is an award winning organic sheep farmer and is currently developing a natural wine vineyard in Monmouthshire.Kim Smith: PhD Researcher at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges, University of London, examining the policy aspect of primary school food education. With 25 years’ experience working across the UK food system, for the last 10 years she has focused on food education through teaching food through the primary curriculum and being a Trustee at TastEd, a charity that helps children learn to love eating vegetables and fruit, using the 5 senses

Job: Social Media Coordinator, The Humane League, Remote, UK

The Humane League UK is seeking a creative, proactive, and strategically-minded individual with the drive to end the abuse of animals raised for food. The position:As Social Media Coordinator, you will live and breathe all things social media, understanding its potential contribution to achieving our mission.You'll lead all activities across our Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and LinkedIn, as well as keeping an eye out for opportunities elsewhere on social media. With strong working knowledge across social channels, you’ll implement a digital strategy focused on reaching, engaging, and converting our audiences to take action for animals.This role reports to the Digital Communications Manager.We will be holding a webinar on Wednesday 6th August at 7pm BST for you to find out more about the role and to ask any questions you may have. The webinar will be hosted by Holly Spindler, Digital Communications Manager and Hannah Yates, Head of Communications. If you’re interested, please register here. The webinar will be recorded and available here within 48 hours of the event ending. Salary:Starting Salary of £35,870 or £39,457 for Inner London Weighting.For more information about the Social Media Coordinator salary please click here. Hours:As an organisation we work a four day work week. This is a full time position of 30 hours per week over Monday to Thursday. You can read more about our decision and process of moving to a four day work week here. Who you are: You are passionate about The Humane League’s mission of ending the abuse of animals raised for food. With an attention to detail and strong written and verbal communications skills in English, you’ll have a keen eye for persuasive and punchy copy and an ability to adapt your tone of voice.You’ll be able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks efficiently in a fast-paced environment, ensuring that you meet deadlines and communicate internally.You’ll have experience of digging into the data, using analytics to assess results, gain learnings, and action those learnings to improve channel performance. You understand what audiences want to see from different channels, and how to get cut through and reach attention on each one.You are a whizz with editing tools and can create compelling, dynamic video and static content that hooks people in and keeps them watching.You’ll be comfortable reacting to opportunities nimbly and being proactive in looking for stories to tell about our work, seeing every interaction as an opportunity.You’ll be willing to be the face of the organisation on social media, ensuring that you have a good working knowledge of our issues and campaigns in order to motivate support for them.You will have a supporter-centric approach to communications, responding to comments and messages from a place of care and empathy.While working with autonomy is an important part of your role, strong collaboration and communication skills are paramount to your success. Primary Responsibilities:Ownership of our social media channels; regularly testing, creating, and posting content that is tailored to each platform, using each channel’s features to maximise impact towards our goals.Planning and building social media campaigns that strategically integrate goals and consider metrics.Updating the communications calendar.Create inspiring concepts and develop these into compelling, on-brand, platform-specific content using tools like Canva and Adobe Express.Social media community management including moderating and responding to comments and messages to ensure people feel valued, engaged, and we are building strong relationships with supporters and potential supporters.Regularly monitoring social trends to create topical content.Using tools such as Google Analytics, Facebook insights, and Sprout Social to report on post and channel performance, monitoring and evaluating success against goals on a monthly basis.Contribute to or initiate the development and improvement of processes that improve delivery and collaboration.Keep up to date with new features and tech related to social media platforms, as well as other organisations’ activity, to ensure the most engaging and effective content.Encourage and assist staff members in producing social media content, supporting them with creative and technical guidance and giving feedback.Contribute to other communications activities such as website and PR content, as necessary.Attend events, protests and actions as necessary, developing on-the-ground content plans that effectively showcase our actions and further our goals.