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About nef

nef (the new economics foundation) is an independent think-and-do tank working for economics as if people and the planet mattered. It aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environmental and social issues. It works in partnership and puts people and the planet first.

Current work on food and agriculture includes an investigation of assets in rural communities, research on sustainable fisheries and this initiative for social justice in food and farming.

nef also works on issues such as well-being, links between climate change, social justice and the economy, how to build thriving communities and better ways of measuring and valuing matters. For more about nef click here.

About the Food Ethics Council

The Food Ethics Council is the independent UK advisory body on the ethics of food and farming. Established in 1998, we registered as a charity in 2004.

We believe it should be easy to eat food that is good for you, for others, for animals and for the planet. Healthy and sustainable food, produced and traded fairly, should be the norm not the exception. We want to change the food system to make our aims a reality.

The problem is that our food system hasn’t evolved simply to feed people or enhance quality of life. It has been shaped by other pressures – social, economic and political. Our part in striving for a better food system is to put ethics – an explicit concern to do the right thing, all considered – at the heart of decisions about food by policy makers, businesses and in civil society. We do this by creating tools to help people make ethical decisions, and through research and dialogue that help find a way through challenging and controversial issues.

To find out more about what the Food Ethics Council does, visit the main website here.