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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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New food systems policy toolbox published

Date: 15 October 2021
Author(s): Adam Staines

New reports published mapping policy levers and providing a toolbox to support cross-system conversations, research and action from the Transforming UK Food Systems SPF programme.

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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Insight: Paris-compliant healthy food systems

Insight, issue six: Paris-compliant healthy food systems

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Date: September 2017

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 outlines the need for a food system that supports both health and the Paris climate agreement, exploring impacts of food production and consumption as well as potential interventions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions across the system.

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Why UK researchers are needed to achieve diets that nourish, rather than just feed people

Date: 18 September 2017
Author(s): Alastair Ager

Following the previous blog from Riaz Bhunnoo, Head of Global Food Security, on the opportunity for further research into food security using a ‘food systems’ approach, Professor Alastair Ager, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Development (DFID) explains why there is a need for this cross-cutting research and the challenges he hopes this will address.

Food waste within global food systems

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Date: September 2013

This report provides an independent assessment of the state of knowledge in the area of food waste, exploring waste-related issues in both developing and developed countries, with a particular focus on understanding where new approaches and new research may be instrumental in reducing waste.

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Insight: Severe weather and UK food resilience

Insight, issue two: Severe weather and UK food resilience

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Date: February 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 provides an overview of the increasing threat of severe weather events throughout the food supply chain, and potential methods for mitigating these risks.

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Priority Research Questions for Global Food Security

Date: 29 March 2022
Author(s): Lottie Chapman

The GFS Science Advisory Group (SAG) workshop identified the top 20 key research themes and questions needed to help transform our food system and deliver global goals by 2030.

Waste not want not: What are the problems of food waste in the supply chain and how can we fix them?

Date: 30 October 2018
Author(s): Ciara Dangerfield

Dr Ciara Dangerfield discusses the outputs of her GFS-funded workshop that explored where food loss and waste occur across the supply chain, and how the scientific community can address these issues to make our food system less wasteful.

Winners of Speak Up for Food Security competition 2020

Date: March 2020
Author(s): Maia Elliott

Mirjam Hazenbosch from the University of Oxford has been named Winner of the 2020 Global Food Security research storytelling competition ‘Speak Up for Food Security’ at Cambridge Science Festival. Nina Goodlad from the University of Dundee won the Public Choice Award.

GFS-FSR event highlights the need for cross-food system collaboration

Date: 29 October 2019
Author(s): Eleanor O'Kane

Cross-stakeholder collaboration is required for food system transformation; a key message from the GFS Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context programme’s recent stakeholder event in Edinburgh.

Man Standing in a Wheat Field Holding Wheat Grain in His Cupped Hands

UK agriculture benefits from nearly £2 million support towards sustainability improvement

Date: 21 June 2018
Author(s): Riaz Bhunnoo

With a rapidly increasing global population set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 coupled with environmental change, the challenge of feeding the world has never been greater. Making UK farming more resilient and sustainable will improve the UK’s ability to feed itself, while also benefitting the global food system more broadly.

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