Astonishing comments from a Conservative MP about his party's leadership contest.
I have long fought for equal representation in public life. Unfortunately, views like this are still held by some and only serve to damage women's prospects.
@5050Parliament@fawcettsociety
🎪🌱🚜🦋🏛️LUNZ Hub Big Tent kicks off with Prof Mathew Williams on engaging policymakers on land system interconnectedness, trade-offs and levers of change supporting policymaking (and some cracking good artwork and films). @LUNZHub@UniRdg_Research
Wowy! Just checked & 300+ sign ups for @AFNnetwork webinar tomoz -don't miss it! Wed 13 10-11am BST.
🏛️Can we reimagine government in the #foodsystem?
🚜What can previous agri-food revolutions teach us?
🇬🇧What's the inside story from Whitehall?
🎟️👉
https://t.co/G3h2TWtdbn
1. Political leadership
2. Money (economic syst, funding, support payments, affordability, poverty)
3. Definitions (what is #netzero/ sustainable yield, how to measure it etc)
= 3 top barriers to achieving sustainable yield maximum @AFNnetwork food syst stakeholder wrkshop
Government leadership coming out strongly in the 'who or what would you need to change [towards net zero]' question at our @AFNnetwork Champion's event with @a_macready@Simon_Willcock@JacquieMcGlade. Asking food industry professionals.
How do you create the headspace to think about eating sustainably, when modern life means you've no time and money's tight? @ktfoodpalmer@foodsensewales & @a_macready discuss behaviour change, psychology and cost of food in our latest podcast.
https://t.co/JudboJLz1u
BREAKING: scientists confirm their growing fears of an ecosystem collapse vortex in the 2020s, '30s, and '40s due to activities of the industrial GDP growth economic system 🧵
https://t.co/rwBH3zeqnn
Thank you @UniRdg for recognising @EITFood TrustTracker(R) project on consumer trust at @UniRdg_Research awards🏅Really proud, amazing day, top quality projects on behaviour🔮 environment🌱 heritage🏛️👏👏👏
Many congratulations to the runners up in our 2023 Research Awards Research Impact category 👏
Find out more about their work:
Rita Fontinha & James T Walker @HenleyBSchool
➡️https://t.co/VCBwNtOkvt
@a_macready@UniRdg_SAPD
➡️https://t.co/qMMSBqW0Fr
Well said @vickihird@UKsustain Head of Farming. Why on earth has the government ditched the Horticulture Strategy - just when we need it urgently - for health, for resilience, for sustainable and diverse production and for the economy? https://t.co/RaYHITy3G0
Dr @a_macready developed an evidence-based model of what drives consumer trust in the food system, to create healthier, more sustainable food systems.
TrustTracker(R) studied trust in farmers, manufacturers, retailers & authorities to shape global policy
@UniRdg_IFNH@EITFood
📢 Our application form for our funding call is now live! We've got £350k to give to projects that help reach #NetZero through agri-food.
Apply now 👇
https://t.co/X4Cf10aA2Z
What's the link between UK #poverty and combatting #climatechange through our food system?
According to Joseph Rowntree Foundation, around 20% of people in UK were in poverty (2020/21, before #costoflivingcrisis). Of these, 7.9 million were working-age adults, 27% were children
And a fab talk it was too @lucindahawksley 👏 Thanks to #FriendsOfSherborneHouse for hosting and raising £££££s to restore the amazing #MacreadyDickensScreen. Incredible conservation work by Rebecca Donnan❤️🩹 Great detective work by @Catherine_Faver & Rosa Coles @UniKent 🕵️♀️🕵️♀️🕵️♀️
Tonight at 7pm, I’m doing a talk on #CharlesDickens and actor William #Macready at Digby Memorial Church Hall, #Sherborne, in #Dorset. There is no link to buy tickets online, only at the door. Macready lived in Sherborne towards the end of his life & #Dickens visited him there.