Reports library

A UK-wide transition to sustainable and regenerative farming practices, to tackle the climate, nature and public health crises, could produce enough food to maintain and potentially even improve current levels of self-sufficiency, provided we ate differently, ate less and cut food waste.

Achieving Net Zero requires significant behavioural change, including rapid and widespread adoption of new technologies, and a significant reduction in demand for some high-carbon activities such as flying and eating ruminant meat and dairy. To achieve such a transformation government will need to utilise all available policy levers and intervene at multiple levels.

An analysis of the implications of an ambitious agro-ecological transition across Europe, following the Ten Years for Agro-ecology (TYFA) scenario that IDDRI published in 2018. It examines the impact on world land use, trade balance, available calories and global food security.

This independent report looks at the entire food chain, from field to fork. This includes production, marketing, processing, sale and purchase of food (for consumption in the home and out of it). It also looks at the consumer practices, resources and institutions involved in these processes.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) commissioned the Scottish Rural College (SRUC) to update the abatement potential from a range on-farm measures covering behavioural practices and technological options. SRUC was able to draw upon updated evidence from Defra’s on-going project, Delivering Clean Growth through Sustainable Intensification.

The Sixth Carbon Budget report is based on an extensive programme of analysis, consultation and consideration by the Climate Change Committee and its staff, building on the evidence published last year for the Committee’s Net Zero advice.

This report is the Climate Change Committee’s first in-depth advice on UK agricultural and land use policies. The report assesses the way we use our land today and the changes required in how we farm and use land in order to deliver the UK Government’s Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050.

This report makes the case for a global shift towards more sustainable and healthier diets. Using the latest and most well-evidenced behavioural science, it outlines 12 strategies for promoting sustainable diets. Each strategy offers a route through which governments, retailers, producers, restaurants, campaigners and consumers can help deliver a more sustainable food system.

The National Farmers Union has set the goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the whole of agriculture in England and Wales by 2040. This is the organisation’s contribution to the UK’s ambition of net zero by 2050.

This big piece of work by French think-tank, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), sets out how transitioning European farming to agro-ecology over 10 years could ensure sustainable food for Europeans, protect biodiversity and natural resources, and mitigate climate change.