Global Food Security Policy Lab 2021

Applicants from any disciplines are invited to produce research that can inform policy and scope the issue of reducing food loss and waste throughout the food system, with the opportunity to interact with stakeholders. At this Policy Lab workshop, my interdisciplinary team competed and won the opportunity to publish a policy facing think piece, and up to £5,000 to support this. The produced synthesis report will cover the background to a specific problem and subsequent recommendations for policy, practice and research around the topic of reducing food loss and waste and the environmental benefits of doing so. The results will be presented directly to governmental departments and programme partners, including the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Department of International Trade (DIT), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and partners in UKRI. In 2021, a bid was accepted for the winning team to release their report on an international platform at the United Nations COP26 conference on climate change in Glasgow, November 2021.