This project will work with beef and sheep farmers across the UK to reduce greenhouse gases by making better breeding decisions. By reviewing global breeding methods and collecting data from 20 case study farms across the UK, the project will identify practical and affordable breeding strategies to cut emissions.

This project will explore institutional barriers to agricultural wilding (introducing and conserving wild crops and plants for agricultural purposes) on upland and lowland farming systems. The project will explore the solutions to overcoming them and promoting agricultural wilding as a viable and fair solution at a critical time for farming and land-use policies in the UK.

This project will use an established conceptual framework for understanding transformational change in agriculture (the ‘Triggering Change Model’), to assess how substantive environmental changes in large land-holding trajectories can be enabled. Findings will be analysed to identify best practice in supporting the managers of large land holdings to make transformational change, enabling industry organisations to better support their members, and provide a foundation for future research which integrate social and natural sciences.

This project will investigate the affordability, sustainability, and nutritional quality of insect protein-based diets compared to alternative protein diets for university students. Main meals and a dessert option will be developed using mealworms and crickets. The project will highlight the potential of insect proteins as an affordable and sustainable diet for university students.

This project will empower farmers to estimate the level of soil organic carbon content in their fields, through the assessment of soil colour. By developing this new method, the project aims to raise awareness of soil health and carbon sequestration.

This project will explore and prioritise regenerative agricultural practices that can deliver net zero from a farmers’ perspective, by identifying the practices that can promote storing carbon in the soil and reduce GHG emissions while enhancing productivity.

This project will explore how low-trophic seafood eg. mussels, can be integrated into convenience foods to increase their nutritional value, and help diversify diets and reduce carbon footprints, particularly for people on low incomes.

This project will look at how local authorities and their partners can work together to integrate climate policies. Using Gloucestershire as a case study, it will identify actions that local councils and their partners can take to support positive changes for food and farming as well as, health and wellbeing, which are also an efficient use of public money.

This project will work with Marks and Spencer, to evaluate the trade-offs in relation to the choices beef farmers make when trying to reduce the environmental impact of beef production, with the aim of limiting potential negative trade-offs.

Newcastle primary schools will provide vegan/vegetarian ‘Planet Friendly’ menus one day a week from the 2024-25 school year.  This project will lay the groundwork to design a future study looking at the delivery and impact of Planet Friendly menus.

This project will develop a tool which can measure, over time, a range of potential benefits from social prescribing of healthy food. The tool will support WellFed Cornwall to measure health benefits for individuals, such as reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and improved wellbeing. It will also evaluate wider benefits for society, such as reduced demand on the health care system or lower carbon emissions.

This  project aims to help UK farmers improve their ability to monitor and report carbon storage in agroforestry systems by developing a model called AgForC to estimate the carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere and stored in soil, trees, and hedges. This model will be integrated into the Cool Farm Tool.

In partnership with the Planet Card initiative in Cardiff, this project will explore how access to local alternative food networks such as farmers’ markets can help people facing food insecurity whilst also promoting a just transition to net zero.

This project will create a program to monitor and understand how soil carbon stocks and biodiversity improve when moving from traditional farming to more regenerative methods.

This project will work with farming businesses in Leeds and Bristol, to gather evidence on the benefits and barriers of transitioning to agroecology. The aim is to give policymakers practical steps to accelerate the transition towards more agroecological food systems.

This project aims to use systematic mapping methodology to collate and summarise existing evidence for the impact of five representative RA practices on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural yield.

This project will examine the effectiveness of plant based and animal slurry based digestate on an indoor basil farming system.

This project aims to develop a free web-app that provides farmers with personalised forecasts of emissions from manure using farm weather data.

This project aims to provide the foundation for a better understanding of consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviours regarding alternative protein.

This project explores a cooperative governance model where farmers are organized to represent their members to buyers of natural capital products.

This project will identify and analyse the motivation and incentives of UK livestock farmers and food processors.

This project aims to make UK faba beans into a poultry feed material that can be used in place of soya.

This project will conduct a synthesis of UK net zero agricultural interventions, determining barriers, opportunities and impacts.

This project will develop a map of data collected along the milk food chain enabling environmental and nutrition data to be analysed

This project aims to study the effects of urban-community food growing on achieving net-zero targets, improving local food systems, and benefitting communities.

This project aims to examine the impact of community composting schemes to aid in reaching net-zero targets.

This project aims to review literature on emissions and disease for ruminant and monogastric systems and identify existing data sources for health and emissions.

This project aims to equip farmers with the necessary skills and knowledge to practise regenerative agriculture and other low-carbon farming practices.

Through a workshop this project brings poultry industry employees and consumer-citizens together to understand existing beliefs and practices in the industry.

This project will explore the design of a new model of collective insurance for farmers trying new climate-smart practices as a cohort, across a catchment.

This project aims to assess farmers’ perceptions, knowledge, and practice of regenerative agriculture in the UK via a nationwide survey.