A digest of Henry Dimbleby and Dr Dolly van Tulleken’s report, Nourishing Britain: a Political Manual for Improving the Nation’s Health. The report is a how-to (and how not-to) manual for current and future politicians about tackling the UK’s diet-related ill-health. With thanks to our Policy Champion, Ali Morpeth, for her help digesting it.  

As UNFCC COP29 kicks off in Azerbaijan, an oil-producing, authoritarian state. What could negotiations this year, mean for food and farming?  Our co-lead, Prof Tim Benton, has spent much of his career working with governments around the world on climate change and food system transformation. He’s been to many COPs and gives his assessment.

A quick update on the implications for food and health of the Autumn Budget.

A quick update on the implications for farming and the countryside of the Autumn Budget.

What could the Labour government do if it really wanted to tackle the issues in the food system? And was has it already done?

Analysis of the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee report, Recipe for health: A plan to fix our broken food system.  

Turning fugitive methane emissions from UK dairy cow slurry into biogas could be worth £52,000 a year in saved fuel costs to the average farm.

Consumers who ‘over consume’ red meat could cut global food emissions by 32% by shifting some of what they eat to legumes and nuts… and more

Here’s a quick look at Lord Darzi’s Independent Investigation into the NHS, which was published today, and what it says (and doesn’t say) about food, diet-related ill-health (a huge opportunity for reducing the NHS bill, while tackling emissions).

Summer is a busy time and there’s been a lot flying around in the agri-food space. Jez Fredenburgh, our Knowledge Exchange Fellow, has digested a selection of spring/ summer reports and papers so you don’t have to. Here are some key learnings…

We need to reframe land-use change in the UK, move away from net zero as the central goal, and talk to farmers more about their livelihoods. These are some of the key messages from Chris Stark, one of the country’s best known and most senior civil servants working on climate policy.

A recap of what the Labour Party promised in its manifesto on food, farming and the environment.