Sustain-a-bite aims to overcome these issues through innovative, sustainable, and minimal processing methods to create nutritious, tasty, and affordable plant-based foods, aligning with the EU Green Deal’s Farm2Fork Strategy.

FOSTR (Fostering food system transformation by integrating heterogeneous perspectives in knowledge and innovation within the European Research Area) aims to build a foundation for a new Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) governance structure for Europe’s food system.

The FoodCoST project brings together economic and environmental researchers at the frontier of food system modelling, and in collaboration with leading international organisations on the economics of food system transformation. 

FoSTr provides a country support facility for food systems foresight and scenario analysis. The country-led and multi-actor foresight process aims to assist national food systems transformation.

The Foresight4Food Initiative explores how foresight – a key tool for governments, business and civil society to better understand future risks and opportunities – and scenario analysis for the global food system could be improved.

How do we promote a healthier diet which has a lower environmental impact and also enhances local and national enterprise? By starting with the meal and working backwards through the supply chain to the grower.

The AFN Network+ aims to create plausible pathways, and practical, open science, to achieve net-zero through the agrifood system by 2050.

Working with Leicestershire County Council, we are exploring how to improve nutrient flows through food waste management, green waste and bio-solids.

This project combines the latest food system understanding with foresight capability to provide policy and practice guidance on food system resilience.

Embedding food resilience in agendas such as climate, planning and health as well as addressing the overlap between income and food access could help London's complex and fragile food system better meet the needs of its growing population.

Our work helped to consolidate food systems foresight capability in Ghana and Uganda in order to strengthen transformation planning towards more sustainable and resilient food systems.

Global Food Security Programme (GFS), the UK’s cross government programme on food security research, funded 13 collaborative research projects which produced new evidence and recommendations for policy and practice.

SENTINEL was an interdisciplinary research project which sought to address the challenge of achieving ‘zero hunger’ in sub-Saharan Africa, while reducing inequalities and conserving ecosystems.

Our report quantified the UK food system as a foundation for further analyses, drawing together data sources, documents, research articles together with interviews with UK food governance stakeholders.

FoodSIVI was an initiative between academia, industry and civil society to create a standard for true cost accounting in order to accelerate food system transformation. 

This research initiative focuses on the future of small-scale agriculture in the global food system. Combining insight from leading global expertise with strategic dialogue processes in Africa, it deepened understanding and debate about the transformation of small-holder agriculture. 

SUSFANS built a conceptual framework, evidence base and analytical tools to underpin EU-wide food policies on consumer diet and the implications for nutrition and public health. It also explored the competitiveness of EU agri-food sectors, and global food and nutrition security. 

The Zero Hunger – Zero Emissions Project set out to explore how societies can engage in difficult yet inclusive debates around achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and 13 (Climate Action).

WEFWEB explores the challenges of understanding and identifying the dynamic, interlinked interdependencies across the physical, social and political, ecological and digital nexus networks at multiple, nested scales and temporally.

TRANSMANGO focuses on the vulnerability and resilience of European food systems in the context of socio-economic, behavioural, technological, institutional and agro-ecological change, and aimed to enhance understanding of the new challenges and opportunities that the food sector will face in the future.