We’ve curated what we think are the most essential research reports on the UK agri-food system, net zero, and related topics.
We keep a close eye on the latest and most relevant research into transforming the UK agri-food system.
Here you’ll find reports, papers and briefings we think are most relevant and essential reading on our key research areas related to net zero, including; land management, land use, productivity, food security and trade, behaviour change, circular systems, and healthy and sustainable diets.
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
The Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, calls for radical transformation, at a scale and pace not seen since the Second World War.
2025 update of the first EAT Lancet Commission in 2019
A UK government food strategy for England, considering the wider UK food system
This report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Chatham House, shines a spotlight on agribusinesses, on the potential role they could play in fostering transformative change in the food system at scale and at pace, and on the political and market structures, or “system lock-ins” – that are stifling this potential.
This white paper sets out strategic opportunities for businesses and policymakers to act at the intersection of human and planetary health. It highlights the transformative potential of healthy, sustainable diets and how they show up in everyday basket and meal choices.
The Food Conversation has published ‘A Citizen Mandate for Change‘, a public mandate for action to change the way that food is eaten, grown and produced in the UK.
This policy pathway, published by The Food Foundation in collaboration with Green Alliance and The Good Food Institute, outlines a series of pragmatic and easily implementable policy recommendations for the government to include in the forthcoming Food Strategy.
This report, published by the Royal Agricultural University (RAU), in partnership with three national research initiatives – the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), Land Use for Net Zero, People & Nature Hub (LUNZ) and Agri-Food for Net Zero Network+ (AFN Network+) – sets out how the UK can support innovation to address pressures on land.
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