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Food systems, food security and supply chains
Food systems face the triple challenge of food security, resilient supply chains and environmental sustainability.
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Climate security
Climate security refers to the impact of climate change on national security. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change described the threat posed by climate change to human and national security as a “code red for humanity”.
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Innovation and technology in agriculture and alternative foods
Without sustainable agricultural innovation, such as the use of artificial intelligence, the world faces persistent food insecurity and degraded resources.
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Balancing UK agricultural production and environmental objectives
Supporting food and fibre production approaches that are environmentally sustainable and resilient to environmental change.
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Climate and environmental risks: governance challenges
Cross-cutting climate and environmental risks raise interconnected governance challenges that involve justice, sustainability and resilience concepts.
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Inequalities in diets
Healthy diets would improve population-wide health and reduce wider health inequalities but are unaffordable for the poorest 20% of the population.
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Balancing competing land uses: a multifunctional approach
How can a land use framework best address food security, climate mitigation and adaptation, and nature recovery challenges within England’s finite land area.
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Future research
Approved work: Cultivated meat
New parliamentary research project approved to consider opportunities and challenges from the production of cultivated meat.
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Rapid response
Effects of COVID-19 on the food supply system
The effect of consumers stockpiling certain goods and the slow reaction of retailers to ration them exposed the limitations of cost-efficient and streamlined supply chains to be agile and adapt to unforeseen shocks. This suggests that changes may be needed to make the supply chain more resilient. Specific problems arose from the closure of parts of the catering sector and the lack of agility in redistributing supplies from this sector to retail outlets or the food donation/charity sector. This was due to challenges in packaging availability, logistics and labelling requirements; leading to an increase in food loss. Agricultural food producers and the wider supply chain may have incurred significant losses from the impacts of COVID-19. Food processing facilities have been responsible for a number of localised COVID-19 outbreaks. This may be influenced by a range of factors, including the proximity of workers for prolonged periods, the need to speak loudly to communicate over the noise of the machines or the shared welfare spaces external to the factory setting. The immediate effects of COVID-19 on the food supply system are the current policy concern, but the longer-term food system issues highlighted as a result of the pandemic will have to be addressed by considering how to build resilience to possible future shocks.
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Measuring sustainable environment-food system interactions
This POSTnote describes environmental impact metrics for food systems, which are complex networks of decision-makers, natural processes and human activities.
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Transforming the food system to deliver beneficial long-term outcomes
Transforming the food system, to achieve all the UN SDG long-term goals, is challenging and will require a comprehensive, longer term approach to outcomes.
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Issues facing rural communities
A range of complex issues are faced by rural communities. What can be done to support rural economic growth and address long standing challenges?
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Food, diet, nutrition and cancer
This POSTnote summarises associations between diet, nutrition and cancer. It describes the dietary and nutritional factors associated with cancer risk, and interventions for cancer prevention.
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Integrated management of the water environment
Water supplies could be better protected through a risk-based systems approach to managing the pressures currently degrading freshwaters.
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POSTbrief
Food Waste
This POSTbrief assesses interventions to prevent edible food waste, which contributes GHG emissions throughout its lifecycle from production to disposal.
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Food fraud
Evidence suggests that food fraud continues to be an issue in the global food supply chain. This POSTnote provides an overview of food fraud, including its drivers and impacts. It discusses methods for food authenticity testing, broader strategies to prevent food fraud and impacts of EU exit.
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The future of fertiliser use
This POSTnote summarises environmental and economic concerns arising from fertiliser use and the mitigation opportunities via diversification and innovation.
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Plant biosecurity in Great Britain
Plant biosecurity refers to measures to prevent the introduction and spread of pests and pathogens via trade and natural pathways that pose plant health risks.
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