Women InFoodAndFarming

A number of the Women in Food and Farming network representatives had the pleasure of representing the network at a special reception hosted by Dr Amy Little, Australia’s Agriculture Counsellor to the United Kingdom, at the Australian High Commission in London. The event marked the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s International Year of the Woman Farmer and brought together leaders from across agriculture, food production, trade, academia and government to discuss the role of...

This week’s Women in Food and Farming panel at Cereals, sponsored by Ceres Group, wasn’t short of ambition. Titled Innovation That Sticks, I set out to tackle a deceptively simple question - why do some technologies transform farming overnight, while others never make it past the trial phase? Left to right; Danni Robb, Belinda Clarke, Veryan Bliss, Louise Penn. As ever, the answer wasn’t a single breakthrough technology. In fact, when pushed on what’s genuinely transforming agriculture today,...

Written by Dr Danni Robb - connect with me on Linkedin here! Last night’s Selling the Story of UK Food and Farming event tackled a question that often feels easier to ask than answer: how do we genuinely connect consumers with the reality of UK food and farming – and change behaviours, not just attitudes? What became clear is that while the sector talks a lot about trust, sustainability and ethics, the way we communicate these ideas is still falling short. Education alone isn’t enough One...