Food & Food Security Working Group

Good agricultural practices are imperative to feed the growing world population, reduce poverty and inequalities, improve health, and manage ecosystems and biodiversity for global environmental change. Food production and food waste are the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss. The food system does not only involve production, processing, transport, consumption, and food loss and food waste, but also the governance, sustainability, public health, and the natural environment. Therefore, the contributions of different actors, producers, activities, policies, and outcomes are needed to be an integral part of the food system, and they need to be identified, analysed, assessed, and evaluated in order to determine the correct interventions for reinforcing food security. Collaboration, multi-stakeholder engagement, and knowledge exchange between the University of Oxford community can help accelerate the effectiveness of this process. The community can also integrate innovative methods, techniques, and approaches, as well as new technological advances from different disciplines, views, and narratives, to provide effective intersectoral policy recommendations that can be applicable internationally.