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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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Food Systems Research Programme Outlines Multiple Approaches to Resilience

Date: 1 December 2021
Author(s): Adam Staines

The Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context (GFS FSR) research programme, launched in 2016 by the Global Food Security programme, has outlined multiple approaches to enhancing resilience in its final programme report.

Shocks, stress, and choice: How can we develop a more resilient food system?

Date: 5 December 2017
Author(s): John Ingram

John Ingram of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford discusses the different strategies for addressing food system resilience and the new opportunities that these can create in the food sector.

Building back better: How can we increase the resilience of the UK food system?

Date: 21 December 2020
Author(s): Lottie Chapman

A new GFS and BBSRC report details the findings from a workshop with stakeholders across the food system, exploring how we could ‘build back better’ and create a more resilient post COVID-19 food network which simultaneously delivers resilience and sustainability.

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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Bracing the UK food system for multiple shocks

Date: 11 September 2020
Author(s): Riaz Bhunnoo

Covid-19 is just the latest in a series of disruptions to the UK food system. Now is the time to build food system resilience against inevitable future shocks, says Dr Riaz Bhunnoo, Director of GFS.

Food Research Partnership: Resilience of the UK Food System Subgroup

Date: October 2012
Author(s): Sian Williams

Sir John Beddington commissioned a report on food system resilience from the UK’s Food Research Partnership, for which GFS coordinated an expert subgroup.

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£4.9 million to further increase resilience and sustainability of the UK food system

Date: 4 October 2017
Author(s): Melanie Collins

The UK’s Global Food Security programme is funding £4.9 million of interdisciplinary research to increase resilience and sustainability of the UK food system.

The global avocado crisis and resilience in the UK’s fresh fruit and vegetable supply system

Date: 19 June 2017
Author(s): Chloe Sutcliffe and Tim Hess

The UK’s fresh fruit and vegetable supply system is vulnerable to water-related risk. Cranfield University’s Chloe Sutcliffe and Tim Hess introduce a new GFS-funded project investigating this issue.

Changing the tide in aquaculture: lessons from nature for seafood resilience

Date: 27 February 2020
Author(s): Sofia Franco

A more diverse aquaculture sector could contribute to healthier, more environmentally friendly diets, but how palatable would the UK public find this step change? asks Dr Sofia Franco.

£9M funding to optimise UK food supply and tackle global food security

Date: 4 August 2016
Author(s): Global Food Security

Projects including research into protecting crops from pests and increasing tolerance to adverse weather conditions will share the funding.

GFS project advises Co-op on its approach to food systems resilience

Date: 9 November 2018
Author(s): Maia Elliott

IKnowFood, one of the projects in the Global Food Security’s Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context programme has helped to shape the Co-op’s new Future of Food ambition.

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