Research

Foodrise's response to the UK Government’s proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework.

105 organisations are calling on global private banks to address their role in financing industrial livestock production, which accelerates climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and animal welfare and human rights abuses.

Foodrise's response to the UK Government's review of the UK’s raw cane sugar ATQ.

The big-name financiers bankrolling livestock corporations and climate change – a 2024 update. In this report, we map global financial flows to the world's 55 largest livestock corporations between 2015-2022 - and make the case for why banks and investors should stop financing these destructive and polluting companies. Interested in digging deeper? Download the underlying dataset. We invite journalists, campaigners and activists to use this data to expose the flows of finance to big livestock companies - compiled through meticulous research by the Dutch not-for-profit Profundo from a range of financial databases, we've made this dataset public to help hold the financial backers of big livestock to account.

How the Norwegian salmon industry extracts nutrition and undermines livelihoods in West Africa

The role of UK banks in financing industrial meat and dairy corporations. The UK’s ‘Big Six’ banks - Barclays, HSBC, Santander, Lloyds, NatWest, Standard Chartered - provided £62 billion in financing to the world’s largest meat, dairy and feed producers between 2015-2022.

New report by Feedback Europe finds that high EU biomethane target is unrealistic and unsustainable: as European reform of gas markets is underway, our analysis debunks the assumptions behind the high EU biomethane target and calls for a much lower target that is fit for food and the climate.

UK supply of sugar is over 2.5 times the maximum safe limit for consumption. Foodrise and Action on Sugar’s research reveals the harmful impacts on public health and the environment of producing, importing and consuming too much sugar in the UK. The report exposes how current agricultural and trade policies which support or aim to increase the UK’s supply of sugar undermine efforts to meet climate, environmental and public health goals. You can view a summary of the report here.

Foodrise’s analysis of the feedstock assumptions underlying the 35 billion cubic meter biomethane target shows that at best it will be simply impossible to reach this target. At worst, strong policy support for the target will lock in dangerously unsustainable agricultural, land use and energy practices.

Our Supermarket Meat and Climate Scorecard Report 2023 finds that greenwash is rife across the UK supermarket sector, and exposes the ways in which the 10 largest supermarkets are 'greenwashing' their climate footprint.

Alternative proteins are on the rise. To get a clearer picture of what this could mean for current and future food systems, this discussion brief puts forth five critical questions for policymakers, producers, and retailers to consider on the role of alternative proteins in the dietary transition in Europe.