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FCRN China UK livestock seminar

In June 2011 the FCRN held a workshop, in partnership with SAIN UK-China, to explore issues relating to livestock consumption in the UK and Chinese contexts.

Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)?

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.

Livestock feed and food security. Source: UNFPA

Livestock, feed and food security

This briefing paper explores some of the arguments surrounding the relationship between what we feed and how we rear farm animals, and the availability and accessibility of food for human consumption.

Cooking up a storm

Cooking up a storm: Food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate

This report sets out what we know about the food system’s contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Frost Bitten: an exploration of refrigeration dependence in the UK food chain and its implications for climate policy

Paper by Tara Garnett and Tim Jackson, presented to the 11th European Round Table on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Basel, Switzerland, June 2007.