This paper identifies the most important criteria for experts when selecting indicators for sustainability in temperate agriculture.
Research and innovation
Food Futures Panel: Understanding consumer priorities for food innovation
The GFS programme commissioned a panel of 600 members of the public to take part in engagement activities, exploring different aspects of food security research. This report details findings of the food innovation dialogue, highlighting consumer perspectives on research and development across the food chain.
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What innovations really have the potential to transform the food-producing landscape? Head of the Global Food Security programme Riaz Bhunnoo takes a whistle-stop tour.
Food Futures Panel: Food innovation presentations
The GFS programme commissioned a panel of 600 members of the public to take part in engagement activities, exploring different aspects of food security research. This document details the stimulus presentation given at the food innovation workshop.
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Food Futures Panel: What’s next? Future food innovations
The GFS programme commissioned a panel of 600 members of the public to take part in engagement activities, exploring different aspects of food security research. This document details stimulus material for the food innovations dialogue.
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Game-changing technologies in agriculture
This think-piece showcases new technologies with strong disruptive potential in the next decade. New technologies will play an important role in food security, given that in just a 35 year period the earth is being tasked with producing more food than it has in the last 2000 years combined.
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This work compiled and assessed existing sustainability frameworks in agriculture, highlighting the complexity of Integrated Sustainability Assessment methods and the variability in their characteristics.
The network initiates under the auspices of the OECD Global Science Forum with eight signatory countries as full members.
Priority research questions for the UK food system
This report highlights the key research challenges that could improve the UK food system’s efficiency and effectiveness in a global context. This GFS-led exercise developed a list of the top 100 priority research questions for the UK food system based on perspectives of a variety of stakeholders, including food industry, retail, government, wider policy, NGOs and academia.
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