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The Global Food Security programme aims to better understand how behaviour could be changed to support improved outcomes for health and sustainability, exploring the determinants of dietary choices, the win-wins and trade-offs across health and sustainability, and the mix of interventions required for change across government, business and civil society.

The Global Food Security programme aims to understand how increasingly severe extreme weather events and environmental tipping points have the potential to impact on the global food system, as well as identify approaches to prevent and mitigate these impacts.

The Global Food Security programme is delving into complexity science to explore the challenges surrounding the effective communication of our complex global food system.

The Global Food Security programme aims to generate evidence and support for collaborative decision-making mechanisms that would facilitate greater coordination and collaboration in national and international policy-making on food-related issues.

Third Early Career Researcher Policy Lab to understand what determines food choice, and to further understand the best combination of interventions that would be most impactful in encouraging healthier and more sustainable diets.

The Global Food Security programme aims to develop innovative ways to engage young people with the food security challenge and empower the next generation of change makers.

The GFS Science Advisory Group aims to conduct a light touch refresh of knowledge needs in food security based on recent game changing global and scientific developments, providing an up to date set of priority research questions to inform the future activity of GFS and its partners.

The GFS programme aims to understand how food provision and other ecosystem services can be delivered simultaneously on multi-functional landscapes, in the context of social and economic factors. This Policy Lab aims to understand the current state of knowledge on multi-functional landscapes in the UK, synthesise the latest evidence and develop a set of recommendations to inform future UK agricultural policy.

The GFS programme aims to better understand how to reduce food loss and waste throughout the food system, in the context of reducing emissions and contributing to net zero food system goals. This Policy Lab aims to understand the causes and current efforts to reduce food loss and waste throughout the food system in the UK, synthesise the latest research in this area, and develop a set of recommendations to further reduce food loss and waste across the food system.

The Global Food Security programme is updating and refreshing its strategy to reflect the changed landscape of the food and research systems. The new GFS strategy will draw on expertise from the Strategy Advisory Board, the Programme Coordination Group and the Science Advisory Group.

TempAg is a global research collaboration network established to increase the impact of agricultural research and inform policy making in the world’s temperate regions. Through its activities, TempAg enables policy makers, funding bodies, scientists, and other decision makers, to align national and transnational research agendas to allow innovations and policy interventions for sustainable agriculture in temperate zones.

This Policy Lab aims to understand the current state of knowledge on emerging food trends and their impact across the food system in order to inform policy and practice.

Transforming the food system for health, sustainability and resilience across production and demand.

The Global Food Security programme’s annual research storytelling competition that challenges early career researchers to not only inform food system change, but to inspire it.

The Global Food Security programme aims to better understand how the human gut microbiome is composed and influenced, using this insight to explore how it might be harnessed to support improved health outcomes, such as healthy weight and good nutrition.

The Global Food Security programme aims to understand what a future food system might look like that tackles climate change whilst also improving nutrition, exploring interventions in the food system that would help meet the Paris Climate Agreement and deliver against the SDGs.

The Global Food Security programme wishes to synthesise knowledge and further understand how 21st century technology can be used to enhance agriculture and the wider food system.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in partnership with government are pleased to announce a highly ambitious £25 million call for research to fundamentally transform the UK food system, by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre.