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.

Joint statement
February 2025

Joint Statement on GWP* and Livestock Methane

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Letter
December 2024

Joint letter calls on government to take urgent action to reduce the UK’s oversupply of sugar

15 health, environment and wildlife organisations are calling on the UK government to take active steps to reduce the UK's oversupply of sugar, to support public health, wildlife, soil health and the government’s capacity to achieve it’s health mission.
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Policy position
November 2024

GWP*– An Inappropriate and Dangerous Measure of Livestock Methane’s Contribution to Global Warming

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Letter
September 2024

Joint letter to FAO renews calls to urgently retract the Pathways Towards Lower Emissions report

Over 100 organisations and leading experts from around the world are ramping up their calls on the FAO to urgently retract a key report, after the FAO doubled down on serious methodological errors that downplay the emissions reduction potential of lower-meat and dairy diets.
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Consultation response
September 2024

Response to the Government’s proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework

Foodrise's response to the UK Government’s proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework.
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Letter
September 2024

Open letter to the private banking sector on its role in fuelling the climate crisis by financing industrial livestock production

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.
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Letter
July 2024

Joint letter to FAO in response to Pathways towards Lower Emissions report

Over 100 organisations and leading experts from around the world are calling on the FAO to urgently retract a key report, due to serious errors that downplay the emissions reduction potential of lower-meat and dairy diets.
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Consultation response
May 2024

Response to the Government’s Review of the UK’s raw cane sugar ATQ

Foodrise's response to the UK Government's review of the UK’s raw cane sugar ATQ.
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Report
March 2024

Still Butchering The Planet

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.
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Report
February 2024

Blue Empire

How the Norwegian salmon industry extracts nutrition and undermines livelihoods in West Africa
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Report
November 2023

Bankrolling the Butchers

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.
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Report
November 2023

BIOMETHANE: SETTING A TARGET THAT IS FIT FOR FOOD AND THE CLIMATE

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.
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