Reports library

Published by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, the Citizen Manifesto to Fix Food the culmination of nearly two years of conversations with citizens across the country to find out what people really want from food.

Why have farmers felt squeezed by the push for cheaper food at all costs? Why is this a problem? And what should be done?

This statutory report provides advice to the UK Government on the level of the Seventh Carbon Budget (2038 to 2042).

This report considers what would be entailed for the public if the status quo were disrupted. What would public reactions be? How prepared for food shocks are the British?

The Food Foundation’s Broken Plate report looks at the trends impacting the UK’s food system and the actions needed from policymakers in order to ensure everyone can afford healthy and sustainable food.

This report, authored by the UK government’s former food policy advisor Henry Dimbleby and public health expert Dr Dolly van Tulleken, draws on interviews with an unprecedented number of former prime ministers, health secretaries and other senior ministers to offer practical advice and insights on how today’s politicians can tackle to UK’s obesity crisis.

This report by Professor Tim Jackson, commissioned by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) offers a comprehensive estimate of the food-related cost of chronic disease, caused by the UK’s current food system.

The report finds that obesity and diet-related disease are a public health emergency that costs society billions each year in healthcare costs and lost productivity. It calls on the Government to develop a comprehensive, integrated long-term new strategy to fix our food system, underpinned by a new legislative framework.

The Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture brought together 29 major stakeholders from the European agri-food sectors, civil society, rural communities and academia to reach a common understanding on the further development of a core area of European life and economy in a new format of political discourse.

Methane from livestock is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. This paper concludes that the scale of emissions and the potential economic value of lost biogas are sufficient to warrant urgent research and action to reduce emissions from manure management with the beneficial prospect that a valuable new income stream for farm businesses could also be realised.