UK Food Security Review 2024

Bob Doherty

UK Food Security Review 2024

The York Management School

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Abstract

This report assesses the state of UK Food security using publicly available data. The period of 2021 to 2024 began with continuing societal responses to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic alongside adjusting to a new relationship with European Union (EU) and European Economic Area trade (EEA) partners following the UK leaving the EU. Global supply chains dealt with consecutive declines and then surges in demand, in many cases driven by government infection and control measures followed by economic stimulus. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 transformed the world’s economic and geopolitical situation and was particularly disruptive to energy and grain supplies. This had significant consequences for global and UK food security, including widespread increase in food prices. Conflict in the Middle East further disrupted the system by altering supply routes and the navigational safety of the Red Sea, but with more limited consequences, demonstrating the ability of the global trade system to adjust to localised disruption. Extreme weather conditions in the UK and across the globe made more likely by climate change have caused further food chain disruptions but often with more localised impacts.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Number of pages	400
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 11 Dec 2024

Keywords

Food security
Food systems
Resilience
Nutrition

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Transforming to Regenerative Food Systems
DOHERTY, B. (Principal investigator), BALL, P. D. (Co-investigator), Denby, K. (Co-investigator), FAZEY, I. R. A. (Co-investigator) & PICKETT, K. (Co-investigator)
BBSRC (BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL)
4/01/21 → 30/06/26
Project: Research project (funded) › Research
Fair Food Futures UK: a mixed methods study exploring what approaches adopted by community food organisations are more likely to prevent the need for emergency food in two multicultural communities in Northern and Southern England
Bryant, M. J. (Principal investigator), SHEARD, L. (Principal investigator), Previdoli, G. (Researcher), Benchekroun, R. (Researcher), BURTON, W. (Researcher), POWER, M. (Co-investigator), DOHERTY, B. (Co-investigator), Hadley, P. A. (Researcher), PICKETT, K. (Co-investigator), Cameron, C. (Co-investigator), Islam, S. (Researcher), Mirza, S. (Other), Hutton, A. (Other) & Edwards, C. (Other)
1/03/23 → 31/10/25
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

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Transforming to Regenerative Food Systems

Fair Food Futures UK: a mixed methods study exploring what approaches adopted by community food organisations are more likely to prevent the need for emergency food in two multicultural communities in Northern and Southern England

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