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AAAS meeting and congressional briefing, Washington DC

AAAS meeting and congressional briefing, Washington DC

  • Date: February 2016
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

The findings of the UK-US Taskforce were presented at a session of the AAAS meeting 2016. The session panel also conducted a briefing on the taskforce findings for US Senate staff.

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UK-China workshop, Beijing

UK-China workshop, Beijing

  • Date: January 2016
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

GFS collaborated with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in Beijing to hold the UK-China workshop on extreme weather and global food system resilience.

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Survey of Sustainability Assessment Methods report published

  • Date: December 2015
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

This work compiled and assessed existing sustainability frameworks in agriculture, highlighting the complexity of Integrated Sustainability Assessment methods and the variability in their characteristics.

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Belgium joins TempAg as a full member

  • Date: December 2015
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

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UK-US Taskforce reports published

  • Date: August 2015
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

Taskforce findings were published in four reports: The taskforce Synthesis Report: Extreme weather and resilience of the global food system; Annex A: Climate and global crop production shocks; Annex B: Review of the responses to food production shocks; Annex C: Country Level Impacts of Global Grain Production Shocks.

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TempAg’s formal inauguration at OECD, Paris

  • Date: April 2015
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

The network initiates under the auspices of the OECD Global Science Forum with eight signatory countries as full members.

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UK-US Taskforce

  • Date: October 2014
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

In 2014, GFS established a UK-US Taskforce on Resilience of the Agri-Food System to Extreme Weather Events in collaboration with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Science and Innovation Network (SIN).

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Food Research Partnership: Resilience of the UK Food System Subgroup

  • Date: October 2012
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

Sir John Beddington commissioned a report on food system resilience from the UK’s Food Research Partnership, for which GFS coordinated an expert subgroup.

Read more - Food Research Partnership: Resilience of the UK Food System Subgroup

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Is the UK ready for plant-based diets?

  • Date: 7 January 2021
  • Author(s): Christopher Waite, Sajeev Mohankumar, Rebecca Martin, Michael Norman

The 2019 Policy Lab winners present their new report which identifies the potential impacts of the emerging trend of plant-based diets on the UK food system. Here the team give a ‘behind the scenes’ to their process of writing a Think Piece, how they successfully engaged with stakeholders, and why now is the opportune time to be discussing plant-based diets.

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Building back better: How can we increase the resilience of the UK food system?

  • Date: 21 December 2020

A new GFS and BBSRC report details the findings from a workshop with stakeholders across the food system, exploring how we could ‘build back better’ and create a more resilient post COVID-19 food network which simultaneously delivers resilience and sustainability.

Read more - Building back better: How can we increase the resilience of the UK food system?

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