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NFFN's UK Manifesto: Field of View - A roadmap to a better food and farming future

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The coming years will be crucial in building the resilient and secure food and farming systems society desperately needs. We need urgent, transformative action to fix systems which have become synonymous with declining food security, economic precarity, and ecological fragility. It’s time to finally recognise the importance of farming and land use in underpinning a healthy, prosperous society. This means viewing land through a wider lens, harnessing its potential to produce the food we need to live healthy lives while restoring nature, meeting net zero and driving sustainable economic growth. 

Ahead of the next general election, our roadmap for a better farming future outlines the seven key actions required to secure a food system that delivers for all. 

Read our 2024 Manifesto on making a better future for farming possible.

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Our Manifesto's 7 key actions:

  • Supporting a transition to farm payments that properly reward nature-friendly farming is imperative in unlocking a future where nature is integrated into all farm business decision-making. To harness the benefits that nature-friendly farming and land management can offer, the agriculture budget should be increased to £6 billion as a minimum.

  • Farm system change will be impossible for many without a fair return from the market. Healthy, sustainable food needs to be better valued throughout the supply chain, supporting farmers' adoption of new and more sustainable business practices. Many farmers cannot afford to transition to nature-friendly farming in a system typified by unfair practices and low returns. A better-regulated supply chain is needed to help increase transparency and fair play, ensuring that farmers are fairly rewarded by the market.

  • Efforts to increase environmental ambition at home must be underpinned by a progressive trade policy that helps raise global standards. The next Government should implement clear trade standards to safeguard UK farmers and the environment, ensuring that the domestic market does not compete with products produced to lower environmental and animal welfare standards.

  • A national diet high in salt, trans fatty acids, processed meats, and sugar is the leading cause of avoidable harm to public health and contributes to the nature and climate emergency. Supporting a shift to more sustainable, healthier diets can help tackle much of the burden of dietary-related ill health while supporting critical changes in farming and land use, making net zero and nature’s recovery achievable.

  • A successful agriculture transition is dependent upon schemes that secure sufficient uptake amongst farmers, offer the right mix of ambitious actions, and bring tangible benefits to farm businesses and the environment. The current approach focuses heavily on securing high levels of uptake but is falling short in supporting the right actions at the farm and landscape scale. We need a variety of schemes to help put nature-friendly farming into the heart of farm payments.

  • Alongside payment schemes, we need robust, well-enforced regulatory standards to raise farming’s environmental game and deliver a fair and level playing field. These steps will be crucial in protecting our soils, cleaning up our waterways, improving air quality and maintaining food integrity.

  • For many farm businesses, the scale of change required will be significant, encompassing a shift in mindset as much as changes in farm practice. Delivering multifunctional land use at the farm level will be a new concept for many, which may be challenging. A successful transition is dependent on widespread buy-in, improved knowledge, understanding and trust in change. We need investment to help build the skills and knowledge needed to help farmers adopt a range of new practices with confidence.