Realigning UK Food Production and Trade for Transition to Healthy and Sustainable Diets

This project aims to address two overarching questions posed by the Transforming UK Food Systems programme: 1) the changes in dietary consumption, food production, and trade patterns required for a transition to healthy and sustainable diets, and 2) the interventions needed across government, business, and civil society to deliver the transformed food system.

At a glance

Dates2023-2025
SponsorBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funded£178,330 out of £671,000 (Project total value)
PartnersUniversity of Reading, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and University of Kent

Realigning UK Food Production and Trade for Transition to Healthy and Sustainable Diets aims to develop a blueprint for a coordinated set of policy interventions to support the transition to healthy and sustainable diets in the UK. The interventions considered will include fiscal and trade policy measures, supply chain innovations and possible industry-led initiatives that can facilitate to transition to healthy and sustainable diets.

Principle Investor: Professor Michael Bourlakis - School of Management

Research Fellow: Dr Hafize Sahin Ersoz - 美姬阁 School of Management

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