Digest: A tempestuous spring – the climate assessment that puts food security centre stage
This spring delivered two reminders of how exposed the UK food system has become….
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This spring delivered two reminders of how exposed the UK food system has become….
Find out how Denmark are identifying what it would actually cost to align farming with climate, nature and just transition goals at once.
Last October we published our Roadmap for Resilience, arguing that the UK food system faces a future of intensifying disruption and that transformational change rather than incremental adjustment is the only credible response.
Since then, three developments have tested that argument…
We tell ourselves that food crises happen elsewhere. But a new study, led by Sarah Bridle, alongside experts from across policy, business and civil society, has mapped the pathways by which the UK could face serious food system disruption
What would it cost the UK food system to do nothing about climate change?
We tell ourselves that food crises happen elsewhere. But a new study, led by Sarah Bridle, alongside experts from across policy, business and civil society, has mapped the pathways by which the UK could face serious food system disruption
As policy gradually begins to show signs of joining up health, affordability and food system change, in food retail, there are green shoots that suggest a parallel shift may also be underway. Our latest digest examines retailer announcements and shifts in the last year, alongside the government policy that is prompting their methods and ambition….
What would it cost the UK food system to do nothing about climate change?
Carbon and nature markets promise new income for farmers and private investment in nature recovery, but the infrastructure to make them work isn’t there yet.
We need coordinated action to shift UK dietary patterns as an essential component of transforming the food system to improve public health, planetary wellbeing, and economic prosperity.
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