Activity updates from the Global Food Security programme.
The winner for GFS’s 2021 research storytelling competition, Speak UP for Food Security – Five Stories for Change, has been announced. In honour of the UK hosting COP26, this year’s competition aimed to equip UKRI early career researchers with the knowledge and skills to not only inform climate action in the food system, but to inspire it as well.
This scenarios sub-report summarises the outputs of an intergenerational, multi-stakeholder dialogue based on the GFS scenarios report The role of the UK food system in meeting global agreements: potential scenarios. This report was selected to feed into the UK Member State Dialogue for the 2021 United Nations Food System Summit.
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.
The Global Food Security programme aims to generate evidence and support for collaborative decision-making mechanisms that would facilitate greater coordination and collaboration in national and international policy-making on food-related issues.
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.
