Location: The Warehouse - Birmingham Friends of the Earth Environmental Community Hub, The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH

Food systems transformation is technically feasible – so why isn't it happening? The EAT-Lancet 2025 report positions justice not just as a desirable outcome, but as the essential mechanism that makes transformation possible. Without addressing power imbalances and structural inequalities, transformation won't happen. Building on the AFN Network+ Roadmap for Resilience: A UK food plan for 2050, this workshop will focus on the pathways developed to achieve the three essential transformations (stronger more resilient farming, smarter and more integrated land use, and healthier diets made easier), centering the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Framework. Workshop objectives include:

•  Developing a JEDI-focused framework for considering farming, land use change and healthy eating, which will be used in successive activities, where we will aim to work with marginalised communities to embed their experience and perspectives in pathways for just transformations.

• Identifying better ways of embedding marginalised voices in decision-making and design future activities accordingly. 

• Inviting participants to join a steering board to guide this process. More information will be provided and discussed during the workshop.

Please register your interest in attending the workshop, and we will confirm attendance. 

We have limited funds available to support workshop participants to cover the cost of travel to attend the workshop (if you do not have an alternative source of funding). Please indicate your reason and give an estimated cost for your travel below.