Post-COVID-19 land use options to achieve food security, healthy diets and a sustainable environment.

This report presents summary findings of a study looking at how the UK’s food production can align to enable development of a food system that better meets requirements for a healthy diet and a sustainable environment. The COVID-19 pandemic and post- EU exit recoveries present an opportunity to realign the food system with human health needs and sustainable, decarbonised production systems. Research uses four plausible scenarios (Scenarios for UK Food and Nutrition Security in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Zenodo) to explore the range of possible options using land use change, agroecological approaches, use of legumes and new cultivation technology e.g. vertical farming.

This report is part of a series from the ESRC 'UK food and nutrition security during and after the COVID-9 pandemic (Grant ES/V004433/1).