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From launching legal action and producing hard-hitting research to working with local communities, we drive systemic change across food and farming — powered by grassroots energy and backed by credible research.

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December 2025

Exhausted Earth

How fertiliser corporations destroyed the nitrogen cycle and how to fix it.
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Consultation response
October 2025

Response to Treasury Autumn Budget on tariffs on imports of cane sugar

Foodrise and Action on Sugar's response to the UK Government's Treasury Autumn Budget representation survey, making the case for why the Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) on raw cane sugar being imported into the UK should not be renewed.
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October 2025

Menu of Food Voices

The key learnings from our Europe-wide Food Voices Coalition project, empowering local citizens to influence the food retail sector.
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October 2025

Roasting The Planet

Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions. Want to explore further? Download the dataset and read the Executive Summary. We encourage journalists, campaigners, and activists to use this data to expose the colossal, yet often overlooked, climate footprint of Big Meat and Dairy. Report co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
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September 2025

Purpose Over Profit

How alternative food retail can make the Food Strategy a success.
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September 2025

Profit Over Purpose

Why supermarkets will make the Food Strategy fail.
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July 2025

A More-Than-Human Response to Land Use for England – Case Study

A case study of using the Interspecies Council as a response to Defra’s Land Use Framework consultation for England, convened by Foodrise, Moral Imaginations and wyrd futures.
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Consultation response
June 2025

A More-Than-Human Response to Defra’s Land Use Consultation for England

A collective submission from an Interspecies Council convened by Foodrise, Moral Imaginations and wyrd futures
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Report
June 2025

Ocean Takeover

How seabass and seabream farming in the Mediterranean is driving environmental destruction and food injustice. Read a summary of the report in English, French and Greek. Download the methodology here.
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Briefing
May 2025

Commitment issues

Why UK retailers’ climate commitments are failing to deliver and what can be done to fix it.
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March 2025

Used By

How businesses dump their waste on food charities.
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March 2025

Actions to End Food Waste

Using public policy to move beyond voluntary measures and accelerate global food waste action
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