Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Questions from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs:

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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 How can innovation boost productivity to transform and future proof the food and farming system in ways that are sustainable and resilient; including the use of agritech, robotics, and automation to drive change and enable food and farming sectors to compete globally? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Sustainable food and farming How should policies be designed and schemes implemented to help the food and farming sector preserve and enhance the natural environment, while meeting other priorities such as the commitment to net zero emissions of greenhouse gases? 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 reduce the impacts of production on the environment through more sustainable food production, processing, and manufacture? And how do we influence consumer choice towards healthy and sustainable dietary choices? 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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Sustainable food and farming How can we reliably measure and improve the welfare outcomes for livestock on farm, during transport and at slaughter? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Remediation and emergencies Identify, prioritise, and investigate scientific and technical challenges for remediation from a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) or HAZMAT event Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How can we monitor prevalence of COVID-19 and similar viruses through our water systems to act as an early warning system and inform public health decisions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How do we improve our modelling of water resource availability for people and the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How do we effectively monitor and assess the impact of emerging threats on water quality and ecology (for example plastics, antimicrobial resistance, neonicotinoid pesticides, nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals, invasive species, and chemicals) to inform risk-based decision making? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How can we promote efficiency and investment in the water sector and incentivise environmentally responsible behaviour from all branches of society? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How can we manage the land to provide benefits to society and minimise harm to the aquatic ecosystem? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water Which interventions can be used to incentivise improvements in water quality in the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water What types of governance may improve resilience of the water system? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How do we better understand the impacts of climate change on water, habitats, and species? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water What are the actions that will have the biggest impact on restoring freshwater habitats as far as possible to more naturally functioning ecosystems? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Water How do we better understand the impact of the past, the pressures on the present, and the changes of the future when understanding water and the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Floods and coastal erosion How can we ensure appropriate availability and uptake of insurance to achieve better outcomes? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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