Research

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.

Report
March 2026

Nitrogen fertilisers in the UK

Revenues and profits of the major market players.
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Consultation response
March 2026

Submission to EAC inquiry on air pollution in the UK

Foodrise's response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry on air pollution, outlining how agricultural emissions are a significant source of air pollution in the UK.
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Report
February 2026

Blue Empire – 2026 Summary Update

How the Norwegian salmon industry extracts nutrition and undermines livelihoods in West Africa, a 2026 update.
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Report
February 2026

CAP at the Crossroads

Reforming EU CAP subsidies to support healthy sustainable diets.
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Briefing
December 2025

Fish out of water

Pulling the plug on land-based salmon factory farms. Read the full briefing in French.
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Report
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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Report
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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Report
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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Report
September 2025

Purpose Over Profit

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