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Environmental tipping points and food system dynamics: Main Report

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Date: January 2017

This report details outcomes and recommendations from an inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral working group considering tipping points in the food system. Their work provides evidence for the existence of environmental tipping point as well as an exploration of their potential consequences for global food security and options for risk mitigation.

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Impacts from the Global Food Security programme

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Date: July 2015

The GFS programme brings together funding agencies, government and business both domestically and internationally to address the food security challenge. We deliver impact and add value through agenda setting, focusing research priorities, coordination and collaboration, and through public engagement activities, examples of which are provided in this report.

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Resilience taskforce sub report – Annex C: Country Level Impacts of Global Grain Production Shocks

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Date: August 2015

This report examines the impacts of potential extreme weather-related shocks to global grain production at a country level. Key recommendations include encouraging countries to take measures to reduce their exposure to grain production shocks, and more public-private partnerships to play a role in lessening the impact.

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Food Futures Panel: Food systems forum - part 1

Food Futures Panel: Forum part 1 – What are the main challenges for food security?

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Date: October 2015

The GFS programme commissioned a panel of 600 members of the public to take part in engagement activities, exploring different aspects of food security research. This document details stimulus material for the food systems dialogue.

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Public attitudes to climatic shocks and their interaction with the food system

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Date: February 2017

This report details the findings of a public survey, looking to gauge public attitudes towards climate change, climatic shocks and how these issues link to the food system. Given evidence that adaptation from across the food system will be necessary to successfully mitigate climate change, this project aimed to explore public engagement with climate issues and potential routes for food system change.

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Facing the future together

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Date: March 2015

Water is a critical resource under threat, so recognising the risks will be vital to understanding how water use will change in the upcoming years. This synthesis report is an amalgamation of key findings from the three water sub-reports, produced by GFS and the UK Water Partnership.

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Paris-compliant healthy food systems

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Date: December 2016

With the global food system as a whole currently responsible for around 30% of total anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, the agri-food sector must adapt if we are to meet the terms of the Paris climate agreement. This report details discussions at an interdisciplinary workshop considering what a Paris-compliant healthy food system might look like in practice, and mechanisms by which this kind of food system might be realised.

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Food Futures Panel publishes project evaluation reports

Date: 6 April 2016
Author(s): Global Food Security

The Global Food Security (GFS) programme’s Food Futures Panel has published 10 reports on its activity so far.

Resilience taskforce sub report – Annex A: Climate and global crop production shocks

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Date: August 2015

This report presents a set of scenarios for weather-driven production shocks that are plausible in the present or near future climate. This work highlights the risks extreme weather poses to global food production, recommending further investigation into the meteorological teleconnections between major food production regions and the probability of coincident shocks in multiple breadbaskets.

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Insight: Food price spikes and global food markets

Insight, issue three: Food price spikes and global food markets

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Date: April 2014

GFS Insight aims to offer a balanced and interdisciplinary representation of the current state of knowledge in a particular area relating to food security. This issue explores the factors behind recent global food price spikes, and potential routes for improving food price stability.

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GFS Programme - A survey of public attitudes

Global Food Security programme – A survey of public attitudes

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Date: August 2012

This report details the findings of a public survey, looking to benchmark public attitudes, opinions and understandings of global food security. This survey was the first stage in a programme of public dialogue, feeding public views, aspirations and concerns around global food security into the work of the GFS programme.

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A food systems approach to policy for health and sustainability

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Date: September 2018

This report highlights the significant benefits for policymaking from a food systems approach. Thinking systemically and at an interdisciplinary level can help ensure that challenges are tackled from multiple perspectives and in a holistic way. Such an approach provides a way of identifying win-wins, managing trade-offs and mitigating less desirable outcomes, enabling stronger policy coherence across agriculture, nutrition, health, trade, climate and the environment, in both businesses and governments around the world.

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