How can we accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture in the UK?

At a pivotal moment for our food system, we need urgent, rapid, and large-scale systemic transformation to address critical issues such as climate change, land degradation, and equitable access to healthy diets.

Our latest report, Scaling regenerative agriculture in the UK: Accelerating change through collaboration, highlights regenerative agriculture and agroecology as viable pathways to achieve regenerative goals. It also emphasises the need for scaling up and mainstreaming regenerative practices through supportive policies, incentives, and knowledge sharing to support holistic, regenerative outcomes. 

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Now live: The Frontline of Indigenous Agriculture series

As regenerative agricultural approaches gain momentum in the United States, there's huge potential to tackle complex environmental and social challenges. But how do we ensure that the transition respects the roots of Indigenous practices, and allows people and the planet to flourish long-term?

As part of our Growing our Future US initiative, Forum’s exclusive Frontline of Indigenous Agriculture series speaks to those leading the way.

Meet Jerry Jondreau and Katy Bresette, Spring Alaska Schreiner, and Michael Kotutwa Johnson.

Explore their stories
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Coming soon: A spotlight on business transformation

We know that businesses have an urgent need and opportunity to step up in tackling our social and environmental issues. 

Forum’s ‘Business Spotlight’ campaign explored four key unlocks to transformational business: inspiring visionary leadership, rethinking value chains, transforming consumption, and creating an enabling context. In August, we’ll shine a spotlight on the impact Forum’s having alongside our partners.

The Business Spotlight is one of three campaigns Forum will run in 2023-2024, focusing on three pivotal transitions. Watch this space for Food and Energy Spotlights later on.

Learn more about transforming the purpose of business in society and the economy

The Futures Centre

How can we go beyond compliance to create transparent products and drive innovation?

There is an uptick in consumers and investors demanding for transparency and companies investing in traceability. Together, Forum and Capgemini are exploring critical questions related to the challenge of achieving radical transparency in our ‘Unlocking Systemic Innovation’ series. Explore more
Innovating for what the world really needs: insights from protein excitement in Southeast Asia

Singapore is a hotbed of protein innovation. But with social, environmental, and economic pressures intensifying, what are the challenges that protein innovation could be trying to solve, and how? And given the reality of those pressures, what is innovation good for, if it’s not helping to address them? Explore more

 

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The School of System Change

Learning is change

Anna Birney, CEO (Chief Enabling/Evolving Officer) at the School of System Change, shares reflections on how learning is the core essence of change, and how the School is shifting to a systemic, living paradigm. Read the article.
Join a Delta information session

Attend an information session on either 12 September or 5 October, where you'll discover how the cohort actively engages in co-designing the Delta curriculum. Together, we will select three systemic frameworks to explore throughout the course. Register for an info session.

Follow the School on LinkedIn for more stories and subscribe to their newsletter for the latest on systems change courses, resources, opportunities, and events.

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Insights on the Forum blog

Spheres of influence: How business can drive change at scale

Businesses face two limiting beliefs when it comes to driving long-term prosperity: that they can't influence their operating context and that they must focus solely on getting their own house in order before trying to make a difference. To unlock their full potential, companies need to recognise the interconnections between their internal operations and external context, writes Forum's Principal Change Designer, Charlie Thorneycroft.
Read more.

Using systems thinking to create secure and resilient food chains in India

India urgently needs to address the challenges of food security, nutrition, sustainable livelihoods, and climate change. However, these pressing needs often compete or overshadow each other. Forum's Principal Strategist, Hansika Singh, emphasises the importance of adopting a systems thinking approach to build resilient food systems and ensure food security in India.
Read more.

Reimagining a new model for regenerative supply chains in agriculture
 

Current agricultural supply chains fall short in delivering the environmental and livelihood outcomes needed, leaving regenerative farmers with limited ways to access viable markets. As part of the Growing our Future initiative, we set out to reimagine the process of buying and selling regenerative products, envisioning a decentralised, collaborative, and regenerative model called the Regenerative Value Network (RVN). Valentina Toledo, Forum’s Senior Change Designer, explores its transformative potential.
Read more.

How the climate crisis threatens the rights celebrated on the Fourth of July

As Americans celebrated Independence Day, Forum’s US Programs & Operations Advisor, Christina Daniels-Freeman, considered the threat climate change poses to the rights and freedoms often taken for granted.
Read more.

Events

6-7 September | Amsterdam
Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit Europe

Focusing this year on moving pilot projects to scale, the Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit Europe will facilitate and accelerate adoption and provide insights to inform corporate strategies to effectively achieve sustainability goals. Explore the agenda and join us at the Summit. Register here.

31 October - 1 November | London
Net Zero Festival

Join Forum’s CEO Dr Sally Uren at the Net Zero Festival for an engaging panel on the role of the private sector in addressing the dual crisis of climate and health. Forum’s Global Strategic Lead - Purpose of Business, James Payne and Joint Managing Director, UK/Europe, Zoe Le Grand will also be at the Festival, hosting a workshop on leadership for a net zero transformation. Register here.

In other news 

  • What does regenerative circular economy mean in business? The Business Transformation Compass provides a definition in The Nordic Circular Hotspot
  • If businesses want to achieve anything more than incremental change, we need a new way of operating, shares Forum's CEO Sally Uren on the Purposing Podcast
  • Businesses must leverage their spheres of control, influence, and concern for maximum positive impact, writes Forum's Principal Change Designer, Charlie Thorneycroft in BusinessGreen
  • Saksham Nijhawan, Forum’s Principal Sustainability Strategist, speaks to The Wire about the Responsible Energy Initiative
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