Dairy UK and the Carbon Trust are announcing major plans for an industry-wide carbon footprinting guide, as a new report shows strong progress towards environmental targets in the Milk Roadmap. Work is just beginning with the Carbon Trust to develop the detailed footprinting guide for dairy, with strong support from dairy companies and other industry stakeholders, including the farming sector. The intention is to build on general work completed last year under Publicly Available Specification 2050.

The Food Standards Agency has published a systematic review which it commissioned which sought to determine the size and relevance to health of any differences in content of nutrients and other substances in organically and conventionally produced crops and livestock products. The focus of the review was the nutritional content of foodstuffs. 

In August 2009, Defra published a report by ADAS entitled: Analysis of Policy Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture, Forestry and Land Management (project code RMP/5142).

A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world's poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham in the UK, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.

This EU-commissioned report, published in August 2009 by Arnold Tukker et al, is a scientific contribution to the EU's Integrated Product Policy framework, which seeks to minimise the environmental degradation caused throughout the life cycle of products.