The AgriFood Charities Partnership (AFCP) has launched a new strategy aimed at enabling “greater collaboration amongst its members”, in the hopes of increasing support for the British food and farming sectors.
The AFCP board have released a new dedicated website and a strategic framework, set out for 2025-2030, that will “address the wide range of current and emerging challenges facing the agri-food sector, such as geopolitics, biodiversity, robotics and, importantly, recruitment.”
The AFCP’s framework aims to “amplify the collective power of agri-food charities” to help secure a more sustainable and productive future for British food and farming.
AFCP
The new strategy is centred around the following four pillars:
- Knowledge: Continuing to promote and share insights across the sector through collaborative training, research and education, which will support agri-food charities to build partnerships, raise awareness; and achieve common goals;
- Support for people: Supporting initiatives that that build capacity, inspire the next generation, and ensure people are equipped with the right skills for the future;
- Advocacy: Championing the role and value of agri-food charities, with the help of the AFCP’s online database that allows individuals, partners, and charities to find funding, collaborators and mutually beneficial opportunities;
- Enabling: Maintaining relationships with people within and outside of the organisation, and continuing its commitment to diversifying funds, to ensure resources match their ambition.
Chair
The chair of the AFCP, Professor Stuart Reid said: “This strategy is about unlocking potential in people, in knowledge, and in partnerships.
“What is increasingly apparent is that the challenges faced by the UK agri-food sector will only be successfully addressed through wilful and focused collaboration.
“AFCP’s role in this must be one of convening, support and advocacy such that the message is heard by those with the ability to shape policy and resource meaningful change – our national food security depends upon urgent and collective action,” he added.
Founded in 2008, AFCP has built a network of charities engaged in food and agriculture together with academia, research organisations and businesses.
Its aim is to promote education and science by supporting charities working in agriculture and food production sector to make better use of their funds through collaborations and information exchange via the AFCP website.
