What we are working on

What We Are Working On

Activity

Behaviour change for adoption of a healthy and sustainable diet

The Global Food Security programme aims to better understand how behaviour could be changed to support improved outcomes for health and sustainability, exploring the determinants of dietary choices, the win-wins and trade-offs across health and sustainability, and the mix of interventions required for change across government, business and civil society.

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GFS Policy Lab on multi-functional landscapes

The GFS programme aims to understand how food provision and other ecosystem services can be delivered simultaneously on multi-functional landscapes, in the context of social and economic factors. This Policy Lab aims to understand the current state of knowledge on multi-functional landscapes in the UK, synthesise the latest evidence and develop a set of recommendations to inform future UK agricultural policy.

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GFS Policy Lab on Reducing Food Loss and Waste

The GFS programme aims to better understand how to reduce food loss and waste throughout the food system, in the context of reducing emissions and contributing to net zero food system goals. This Policy Lab aims to understand the causes and current efforts to reduce food loss and waste throughout the food system in the UK, synthesise the latest research in this area, and develop a set of recommendations to further reduce food loss and waste across the food system.

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GFS Strategy Refresh

The Global Food Security programme is updating and refreshing its strategy to reflect the changed landscape of the food and research systems. The new GFS strategy will draw on expertise from the Strategy Advisory Board, the Programme Coordination Group and the Science Advisory Group.

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International Sustainable Temperate Agriculture Network (TempAg)

TempAg is a global research collaboration network established to increase the impact of agricultural research and inform policy making in the world’s temperate regions. Through its activities, TempAg enables policy makers, funding bodies, scientists, and other decision makers, to align national and transnational research agendas to allow innovations and policy interventions for sustainable agriculture in temperate zones.

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