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My vegan challenge: how hard is it to change your diet?

  • Date: 19 December 2016
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

The Global Food Security programme’s Sian Williams decided to cut all meat and animal products from her diet to see how difficult it would be to eat more sustainably.

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“We are the champions, my friends”

  • Date: 31 October 2016
  • Author(s): Tim Benton

The Global Food Security programme’s Champion, Professor Tim Benton, reflects on leaving the role after five years in the post.

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Engaging with agriculture on Open Farm Sunday

  • Date: 26 May 2016
  • Author(s): Annabel Shackleton

Delivering more sustainable food and farming has to start with reconnecting people with where their food comes from and how it is produced, says LEAF’s Annabel Shackleton.

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Advancing insects as animal feed

  • Date: 18 April 2016
  • Author(s): Keiran Whitaker

Insect farms could recover the true value of wasted organic nutrients, improve local food security and assist in environmental protection, says Keiran Olivares Whitaker of Entocycle.

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Choosing food: consumption and the carbon footprint

  • Date: 7 March 2016
  • Author(s): Arianna Psichas

How can we nudge people to eat more healthily and sustainably? University of Cambridge’s Arianna Psichas reports from the Global Food Security programme’s Policy Lab on sustainable nutrition.

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Engaging with our food future

  • Date: 8 February 2016
  • Author(s): Guy Poppy

We need plan for tomorrow today. The Food Standards Agency’s Guy Poppy reports on the upcoming #OurFoodFuture event to do just that.

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