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Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century

In July 2008 the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit published its final report on food, Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century. The report looks at long-term trends in food production and consumption, and the impacts that food production and consumption has both on our health and on the environment.

The report sets out a series of actions for Government to address the challenges presented by the health and environmental impacts of food production and consumption in an integrated way.  For Defra, this means working with the agriculture sector to look at ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change, working with the food supply chain to reduce food and packaging waste, and engaging with all stakeholders in the food system – primary producers, food manufacturers, retailers, and consumers – to develop a vision for the future of food.

Food Statistics Pocketbook

The Food statistics pocketbook is an annual compendium, ranging from food prices to food supply, and now including data on food safety and consumer demand, this year’s Food Statistics Pocketbook also includes chapters on public health alongside statistics about the economic contribution of the UK food chain and the environmental impacts of UK food production and consumption. The collection of statistics gives a picture of all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption.

Page last modified: 21 July 2009
Page published: 21 July 2009

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