This report provides a detailed and integrative analysis of the dramatic changes in China’s food system over the last 35 years, and explores the linkages among the environmental, health, economic and cultural trends that are emerging. 

This paper describes these emerging perspectives (efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation) and explores their underlying values; highlights LCA’s role in shaping these perspectives; and considers how LCA could be oriented to clarify thinking and advance policy-relevant knowledge. It argues that more work is needed to understand the values underlying different approaches to the food sustainability problem.

The FCRN’s Tara Garnett, and Charles Godfray of Oxford’s Future of Food programme have lead authored a new paper published in Science, written in collaboration with a range of academics.

This paper considers different perspectives on food sustainability (production challenge, consumption challenge, socio-economic challenge), and in turn, their implications for nutrition and climate change, and their strengths and weaknesses.

The report is based on discussions held at a two day workshop held in January 2012 which was coorganised by The Food Climate Research Network and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food

This report examines what part market governance mechanisms (regulatory, fiscal, voluntary and information-related) can or could play in addressing GHG emissions from the food system, focusing on the two extreme ends of the supply chain – the process of  agricultural production, and patterns of consumption.

This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both GHG-intensive stages in the food chain, and GHG-intensive food types.

This paper summarises the presentations and discussions that took place at a workshop organised by the Food Climate Research Network on 21 January 2010.

This workshop was organised by the Food Climate Research Network and supported by Defra and the Committee on Climate Change on 21 January 2010.