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: 🍔 Shifting diets towards alternative proteins could more than halve the engineered carbon removal […]

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.

So, a new week and a new government sitting for the first time: The PM and Cabinet seem to have got off to a very active start, including the new Defra secretary, Steve Reed MP, who wasted no time in releasing a video yesterday setting out his five key priorities for the department: Clean up rivers, lakes and […]

Trees – what role could they play in helping reduce emissions in our food system? Prof Heiko Balzter (University of Leicester), one our Champions last year, synthesised research on agroforestry in this report – Agroforestry as a tool for net zero in the UK. Key report conclusions; Agroforestry can provide multiple benefits to agriculture: Even when […]

This briefing is based on a webinar given by Dominic Watters on 13 December 2023, for the AFN Network+. It is written by Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Jez Fredenburgh. You can watch the full webinar here.  Dominic Watters, also known as Single Dad SW, is a single dad living in poverty and food and fuel insecurity […]

COP28 in Dubai was hailed as historic for many reasons – but what was achieved, if anything, in terms of the food system? We’ve put together this quick-read briefing based on a Chatham House webinar held on 14 December with the Environment and Society team. Here are the main overall points, with a run-down from […]

Why are food and farming hardly talked about at COP? Could this be about to change? If so, how? What or what is holding us back from food system transformation? COP veteran and globally renowned food system transformation expert, Prof Tim Benton (Chatham House, University of Leeds, AFN Network+ co-lead), answered these questions and more […]