We are proud to have supported the publication of several reports that changed the general discourse about the food and farming system. By examining the current challenges faced by the sector, our grantees are able to put forward robust recommendations to improve future policy and practice.
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Credit where due - June 2021
Credit Where Due explores the various obstacles and opportunities associated with financing a more rapid transition to agroecology in the UK. It analyses a number of emerging funding models and mechanisms that could be established with the support of grants and investment.
The report was published in 2021 by the New Economics Foundation and the Croatan Institute with funding from The A Team Foundation, The Roddick Foundation, Bertha Earth, and Cindy Palmano.
Toxic Trade Part 2 - June 2021
The UK formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in February 2019. Signing up to this agreement risks weakening the UK’s pesticide protections, which are currently more stringent than those of other member countries.
In this report, PAN UK, Sustain and Dr Emily Lydgate set out their recommendations for upholding the UK’s current pesticide standards during accession to the CPTPP and protecting UK farmers from being undercut by cheaper imports produced with higher pesticide loads.
Rootz into Growing - March 2021
Growers and farmers who are Black or People of Colour (BPOC) face discrimination and a lack of inclusion in the food and farming world on the basis of race. Yet there is little awareness of how this dynamic affects BPOC growers in the food and farming movement.
Land In Our Names conducted interviews with BPOC food growers past and present, to explore their journeys into the food growing world, and the challenges and opportunities they faced.
LWA Forestry Manifesto - July 2020
The Forestry Manefesto sets out the Landworkers’ Alliance vision for coherent policy on woodland care and revival. The report sets out how such an apporach would create lasting finananial, social and environmental benefits for people and the planet.
The Landworkers Alliance received funding from Farming The Future, a funder collaboration comprising the A Team Foundation, The Roddick Foundation , Thirty Percy, The Samworth Foundation and others.
Toxic Trade Part 1 - June 2020
UK pesticide standards, while far from perfect, are some of the strongest in the world in terms of protecting human health and the environment. Future trade deals with countries with weaker pesticide regulations present a considerable risk to the health of the UK’s citizens, its environment and its agricultural economy.
In this report, PAN UK, Sustain and Dr Emily Lydgate make a range of recommendations, including not allowing pesticide standards to be weakened through trade deals, maintaining the Precautionary Principle as the basis for pesticide-related decisions, and introducing additional legislative protections for food safety standards and environmental protection.
The Nature, Needs and Impact of New Entrants to Farming in the UK - April 2020
Although the barriers faced by new entrants is well documented, the Landworkers’ Alliance realised that there was very little information about who these new entrants were and how their experiences might differ to the existing farming community.
This 2019 report finds that new entrants are more likely to be younger, female,, and interested ecological farming and in social and environmental outcomes than their more established counterparts.
Farmer focused routes to market
Farmer Focused Routes to Market suggests that for every £1 spent by customers on veg box schemes or farmers’ markets, a further £3.70 is generated in social, economic and environmental value.
The 2019 evaluation was led by the New Economics Foundation and NEF Consulting in partnership with the Soil Association and Growing Communities with funding from the A Team Foundation.
The Food issues census 2017
The 2017 Food Issues Census examines how the civil society landscape changed since the 2011 report. It reveals that despite best efforts, the sector’s response was not commensurate with the scale and urgency of the challenges.
The survey was conducted by the Food Ethics Council on behalf of charitable funders Big Lottery Fund, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, JMG Foundation and The A Team Foundation, with support from the Environmental Funders Network
THE food Issues Census 2011
The 2011 Food Issues Census provides a frank assessment of the activities and capacity of civil society groups working on food or farming in the UK, based on a survey of over 300 organisations.
The survey was conducted by the Food Ethics Council on behalf of charitable funders The A-Team Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, JMG Foundation, Mark Leonard Trust, Organix Foundation and the Tubney Charitable Trust.