Philip Lymbery | UN Food Systems Summit
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We all need to seize the opportunity of this year’s UN Food Systems Summit to move towards a global agreement to end factory farming. To reset our food system. To regenerative, restorative farming, working with nature, not against her.

 

To that end, I am deeply proud and honoured to have been appointed a ‘Champion’ of the Food Systems Champions Network and that I will represent animal welfare organisations in Europe and beyond, as a Food Systems Champion for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.

 

It has never been so important for humanity, for animals and for all life on Earth to manage our food systems in a genuinely sustainable way and I hope everyone around the world will join me in engaging with the UN Food Systems Summit to encourage the systemic change so urgently needed in our food system. To move away from inherently cruel and nature-destroying forms of food production to ones that truly respect animals as sentient beings.

UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT BLOG POSTS

  • United Nations Summit Calls for End to ‘War On Nature’ - I’ll never forget seeing empty supermarket shelves during the early days of Covid, with people panic buying and scrabbling for essential supplies. Months on and my local superstore still goes for weeks without having frozen veg available. And now shortages of seasonal labour, delivery drivers, petrol and gas have raised political questions and sparked media headlines about the possibility of ‘Christmas being cancelled’....

    27 September, 2021

  • Why The United Nations Food Summit is already a Success - “It is our moral imperative to keep our promise to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030,” says UN Secretary-General António Guterres ahead of the historical UN Food Systems Summit which will take place on Thursday, September 23. ...

    20 September, 2021

  • “Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world, is done by children”, is how author and poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes put it.  His quote came to mind when I interviewed a young girl about her ambition to see an end to factory farming and preserve the health and well-being of all animals on our planet. ...

    08 September, 2021

  • Why the UN Food Systems Summit is Already a Success. Transformation – denoting a complete change to make things better – is the ambition of the UN Food Systems Summit scheduled for New York in September....

    09 August, 2021

  • One Health, One Welfare: Why we need healthy food systems for people, planet and prosperity. Out of these difficult Covid times, one thing we have learned is that the well-being of people, animals and the planet are interconnected....

    25 June, 2021

  • “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”  Frank Lloyd Wright. As a keen naturalist and birdwatcher, I spend a lot of my spare time exploring the British countryside, enjoying the abundance and variety that mother nature has to offer....

    22 May, 2021

  • Today is World Bee Day – a time to focus on the incredible and unique contribution these tiny insects make to keep our world healthy....

    20 May, 2021

  • As the United Nations Food Systems Summit approaches in September this year, Peter Stevenson OBE, our Chief Policy Advisor, shares his thoughts on why factory farming so dominates animal agriculture. Peter has worked in the animal welfare movement for almost three decades, and played a......

    29 April, 2021

  • The focus of this year’s global Earth Day is on how we can restore our Earth. Between 20th and 22nd April, people in 190 countries will be organising events and promoting ways we can help heal the damage we have caused to our planet....

    22 April, 2021

  • Following Philip’s appointment this past month as a United Nations Food Systems Champion for the world’s first Food Systems Summit,  we talk fish and travel the globe from the USA to the UK and from the Artic to Asia, to understand how our world is......

    31 March, 2021

  • When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding has evolved to insist on better treatment....

    27 March, 2021

  • Today, 22nd March 2021, is the United Nations World Water Day. It's about raising awareness of the value of water and the importance of protecting this vital resource on which we all depend....

    22 March, 2021

  • Today, 3rd March 2021, is United Nations World Wildlife Day: a hugely special day to celebrate the wonder of the world’s wild animals and plants....

    03 March, 2021

UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT GUEST BLOGS

  • WHAT IS FACTORY FARMING? Essentially factory farming, the intensive rearing of animals in cages, crammed in confinement is not only the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet, it’s also a major driver of declines of wildlife, and the very thing which is taking......

    20 May, 2021

  • As a lifelong naturalist who lives on a farm, I am acutely aware of how food, nature and the countryside are interlinked. The other day, I managed to capture on film my first face-on barn owl whilst out walking. It was a very special moment....

    22 March, 2021

  • As a lifelong naturalist who lives on a farm, I am acutely aware of how food, nature and the countryside are interlinked. The other day, I managed to capture on film my first face-on barn owl whilst out walking. It was a very special moment.......

    15 March, 2021

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UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT GUEST PODCASTS

  • April 14th 2021 Episode of the Food Foundation’s Right2Food podcast hosted by Delicious magazine. Here Philip talks about the gaps in the food system that COVID has revealed and his role as UN Food Systems Summit Champion - (Philip is at 11.42)...

    26 March, 2021

EVENTS

Building on the aspirations of the UN Food Systems Summit Compassion convened a dialogue on 18th October, 2021 to explore how to scale regenerative agroecological production for better human, animal and planetary health.

  • Tuesday 27th July: UN FSS Pre-Summit Parallel Event: One Health, One Welfare: food systems opportunities for better human, animal and ecological well-being

28th June: UN Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue: One Health, One Welfare – speaker highlights below, (click here to watch the full version):


Twitter Take-over of the @FoodSystems UN Food Systems Summit account on 19th May 2021

 

Dialogues & Webinars: Philip will be hosting various Dialogues and Webinars, please keep checking in for details

– 3rd June: Coller Foundation Conference Rethinking Protein 

– 4th June: The Global Alliance for the Future of Food UNFSS Dialogue: Food Systems for Better Health 

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