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Open letter to the European Commission on the importance of addressing methane from industrially farmed animals

June 30, 2026

30+ civil society organisations call on the European Commission to take livestock’s methane emissions seriously.

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50 organisations and experts sound alarm over shrinking access to environmental justice

May 26, 2026

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Nitrogen fertilisers in the UK

March 24, 2026

Revenues and profits of the major market players.

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Submission to EAC inquiry on air pollution in the UK

March 3, 2026

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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Blue Empire – 2026 Summary Update

February 24, 2026

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

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CAP at the Crossroads

February 19, 2026

Reforming EU CAP subsidies to support healthy sustainable diets.

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Fish out of water

December 8, 2025

Pulling the plug on land-based salmon factory farms.

Read the full briefing in French.

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Exhausted Earth

December 3, 2025

How fertiliser corporations destroyed the nitrogen cycle and how to fix it.

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

October 30, 2025

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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Menu of Food Voices

October 28, 2025

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

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Roasting The Planet

October 20, 2025

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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Purpose Over Profit

September 30, 2025

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

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Profit Over Purpose

September 30, 2025

Why supermarkets will make the Food Strategy fail.

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

July 8, 2025

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

June 13, 2025

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

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Ocean Takeover

June 12, 2025

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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Commitment issues

May 20, 2025

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

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Used By

March 25, 2025

How businesses dump their waste on food charities.

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Actions to End Food Waste

March 21, 2025

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

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Serving Up – Aligning public procurement of food for UK public institutions with healthy sustainable diets

March 20, 2025

In this policy briefing, we provide recommendations for how public procurement policy could support healthy sustainable diets.

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Fishy Finances

March 12, 2025

Exposing industrial salmon farming’s biggest financial backers.

Want to explore further? Download the dataset. We encourage journalists, campaigners, and activists to use this data to expose the financial backing of industrial salmon farming. Compiled by the Dutch non-profit Profundo, this data is made public to hold these financial backers accountable.

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Joint Statement on GWP* and Livestock Methane

February 12, 2025

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

December 16, 2024

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

November 1, 2024

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