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Sustainable food and farming What data and evidence are needed to inform policy and delivery and what are the best sources to meet these needs? How can we improve broad access to this data and enhance knowledge exchange across the agri-food industry? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming What capability and capacity in the food and farming industry is needed to deliver future rural community policy needs? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How can we best supply healthy safe sustainable affordable food that commands consumer confidence and meets the needs of all consumers (including vulnerable groups)? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming What are the changes that will affect the quality and availability of agricultural land and how will these affect UK’s food and farming systems? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How do we future proof farming and food chains to global shocks? What is the potential for wild relatives, landraces, and orphan varieties to increase diversity and enhance resilience? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How do we respond effectively to challenges including a rapidly growing population, changing consumption trends, finite land use, resource constraints, changing climate, globalised markets, and black swan events such as COVID-19 all of which impact on food and farming system security and supply chain resilience? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Behavioural and social science How can we encourage the development and dissemination of innovations in the agri-environment sector? What are the right conditions for success? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Natural resources and trade How do we minimize the risk of plant and animal disease import to the UK as traded products change, and as the UK goes through a period of significant change in its international trading arrangements post-EU and post COVID-19? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use How can we optimise the food system to support future food production and consumption sustainably whilst reducing environmental impacts? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use What are the likely changes to our agricultural sector following COVID-19 and how can the agricultural system transition be best guided towards a sustainable trajectory while ensuring food security? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use As well as modelling and understanding major land use change (for example from agriculture to forestry), how can we understand the effects of more subtle changes in land management across wide areas (for example changing tillage practice)? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can the UK optimise sustainable growth of biomass for use in power generation (bioenergy) and, with appropriate storage, for removal of atmospheric CO2? How can the negative environmental consequences from biomass production and use (on soil quality, water quality, air quality, and biodiversity) be minimised? What’s the full life cycle analysis for different feedstock? What’s the scalability of different feedstocks within sustainable limits? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the real-world barriers that prevent land-users (for example farmers) taking up low/negative carbon measures, and how can these be overcome? How can we improve the estimation and validation of take up for these practices? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero Which practises can most effectively reduce emissions of GHG (including CH4 and N2O) from agriculture, waste, and wastewater, land-use, and F-gases in the UK and internationally? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Areas of interest in adaptation: How will agriculture affect the resilience to climate change of surrounding habitats and communities- for example water availability, flooding, land use change, chemical harm on ecosystem functions related to climate resilience? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Areas of interest in adaptation: How will crop, livestock, and woodland resilience alter in the future, impacting optimal agricultural and forestry practices for the UK? What practices and policies can we develop to drive adaptation? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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