Coinciding with the 2021 United Nations Food System Pre-Summit (26-28 July), the Global Food Security programme has published its new multi-stakeholder dialogue report. The report was selected to feed into the official UK Member State Dialogue for the UN Food System Summit.
The 2021 GFS Policy Lab ran over 3 days in April bringing together early career researchers from a range of disciplines to discuss how to reduce food loss and waste to contribute to net zero emissions from the food system.
The expansive UK food system has been mapped and quantified in a new report that reveals both the value of the agri-food sector and the multiple challenges it faces.
An interactive summary of the Mapping the UK Food System report
We need to think differently about food. Poor diet is the biggest risk factor for early deaths worldwide, leading to 1 in 7 deaths in Britain every year. Human biology is failing to keep pace with the increasingly obesogenic food environment, with foods high in fat, sugar and salt making up just over half of all meals consumed in the average UK household.
13 collaborative research projects are producing new evidence and recommendations for policy and practice to enhance food system resilience
GFS-FSR is coordinated by a team within the Food Systems Transformation Group, based in the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
The programme will produce a variety of activities and outputs as research projects commence
This page contains details of the research funded under the Transforming UK Food Systems Programme
The Transforming the UK Food System for Healthy People and a Healthy Environment SPF Programme is a £47.5m interdisciplinary programme of research that will help to transform the UK food system by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre.
