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MACC Hub webinar series #8: Ensuring a secure food supply in a changing climate

Experts discuss how climate change is affecting UK food production, supply chains, and prices, and explored how solutions like landscape-scale approaches and nature-based strategies can build a resilient food system. Watch now to gain insights from cutting-edge MACC research and how the UK can prepare for climate-driven disruptions.
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  • March 11, 2026
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  • Event: 26/03/2026 - 12:00 (UTC +01:00) - 13:00 (UTC +01:00)
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Date and time

Date: Thursday 26 March 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM GMT
Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)

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Background

Climate change is increasingly shaping the conditions under which food is produced, distributed and accessed. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, extreme weather events and global supply chain disruptions are already affecting agricultural systems and food markets. Ensuring a reliable and resilient food supply therefore requires new approaches to climate adaptation across land use, food systems and policy. This webinar explored how the UK can respond to these challenges.

Speakers explored how integrated landscape management and nature-based solutions can support food production while delivering wider environmental benefits, and how the UK may need to prepare for climate-induced disruptions to food prices and supply chains. Insights from two MACC research projects were shared that examine different aspects of food system resilience.

Agenda

The webinar explored these questions:

  • How might climate change affect food production, land use and supply chains in the UK?
  • What role can landscape-scale approaches and nature-based solutions play in supporting resilient food production?
  • How could climate-driven shocks to global food systems affect prices and food security in the UK?
  • What insights from MACC Hub research can support more transformational approaches to food system adaptation?

Speakers

Chaired by Pete Smith, Professor of Soils and Global Change at University of Aberdeen, we were so pleased to have on the panel:

  • Dr Christopher Yap, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City University
  • Kate Jones, Researcher on environmental disruptors on the UK food supply chain at Cranfield University
  • Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation

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