July 16, 2025
Taking the Future Food Calculator to Groundswell: Insights and Conversations This July, FixOurFood researcher, JP Cordero attended the Groundswell Agricultural Festival at Lannock Farm, Weston, bringing with him the FixOurFood Future Food Calculator. Groundswell brings together farmers, businesses, academics, and consumers to discuss and learn about farming and food production, with a significant focus on […]
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July 10, 2025
FixOurFood, YESI and Transformation’s Community recently had the pleasure of co-hosting the TCX York ‘Organising for Transformation’ conference at the University of York. The conference created space for 100 international researchers and practitioners to share experiences and practical knowledge on how to organise for systems change. The conference offered a platform for exploring and collaborating […]
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April 14, 2025
On 20th March, Ryedale Folk Museum hosted a day of shared learning and practical insight for farmers exploring or already on the path toward low-input and regenerative farming. The event, supported by Ulrike Ehgartner and FixOurFood, brought together farmers and organisations from across Yorkshire to share experiences, build networks, and discuss how to make low-input […]
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February 24, 2025
ShefFood’s Local Food Action Plan for Sheffield: 2025 Update by Rebecca Wells and Christopher Yap FixOurFood and ShefFood, the local food partnership for Sheffield, are delighted to launch the 2025 update to the Local Food Action Plan for Sheffield, first published in 2023. When the plan was launched, we referred to it as a ‘living document’. […]
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February 3, 2025
By Alexandra Vaughan Alexandra Vaughan is a member of the UK Grain Lab and the Yorkshire Grain Alliance. From 2019 to 2024, she operated an artisanal bakery in Wakefield. She is currently pursuing her MSc in Sustainable Food and Natural Resources at the Centre for Alternative Technology, researching how bread colour influences people’s sensory enjoyment […]
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January 30, 2025
by Tracey Duncombe, TUKFS Knowledge Exchange Fellow Nearly 200 delegates from across the UK were greeted by snowy scenes as they arrived in York in early January for the Transforming UK Food Systems Programme (TUKFS) annual meeting. Many of us warmed up with a food systems-themed board game breakfast (see Beantopia and Planet Pizza), and […]
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December 20, 2024
Public procurement offers a powerful lever for driving systemic change in the food system, with the potential to influence production practices, enhance local economies, and ensure equitable access to nutritious food. This work aims to foster economic resilience, environmental sustainability, and equitable access to healthy, sustainable food for all. Over the past years, the Hybrid […]
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December 4, 2024
By Declan Jackson The Food Aid Challenge: Food aid organisations like FareShare face the challenge of providing nutritious food while navigating complex supply chains and limited control over food donations. Alternative food access models, including food aid, have been developed over the past century as responsibility for ensuring household food security has gradually devolved away […]
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November 13, 2024
by Sam Buckton and Juan Pablo Cordero How connected do you feel to where you live? Chances are that you feel most connected to your local community. Perhaps you feel at home in your village, town or city. You might also feel like you belong in a wider region or even Britain as a whole, or […]
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October 22, 2024
Our Free School Meals (FSM) auto-enrolment project registers eligible families to receive FSMs using benefits data, unless families opt out. FixOurFood supports the set-up of FSM auto-enrolment processes within local authorities (LA) in England and evaluate implementation and impact. This is being achieved by: Read the full article here: BBC article 22nd October 2024 Myles […]
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