Food campaigner made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Agricultural University
Food campaigner, journalist and restauranteur Henry Dimbleby has been conferred as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).
Dimbleby, who wrote the independent National Food Strategy in 2021 commissioned by the then government, was honoured by the university for his pioneering work to transform the UK’s food system and farming in the public in the public interest.
Receiving the Honorary Fellowship at the RAU’s annual Graduation ceremony, he said: “It fills me with great optimism seeing first-hand how the RAU is adapting its courses and teaching to create future leaders in the mission to create a food system that restores human and planetary health.”
Professor Tom MacMillan, Elizabeth Creak Chair in Rural Policy and Strategy at the RAU, worked with Dimbleby on the National Food Strategy and gave the citation for the Fellowship bestowal.
He said: “The Food Strategy is a landmark. A report commissioned by government that lays bare the dangerous mechanics of our food system – drivers of illness, climate change and nature loss - and sets out practical steps to correct them.
“It has already had significant impact, spurring government’s progress towards a strategic framework for land use, and also tackling holiday hunger, and there are encouraging signs that the new government may run with more of its recommendations.”
