About this project
The UK is emerging from a cost-of-living crisis featuring a 40-year high in food price inflation, with climate-change significantly contributing to rising food bills. In the UK today, around seven million adults are experiencing food insecurity and the health inequalities between the richest and poorest communities are staggeringly wide.
For the first time, academics, analysts and researchers will assess the impact of climate-change on food prices and access to nutritious food in the UK. This research will inform policymakers and businesses on how to adapt and build resilience to the food-related health impacts of climate change.
Research Areas
Led by the University of Aberdeen, over the next two years this consortium will aim to:
Model how climate-change driven events – including heatwaves, droughts and floods – affect UK food prices.
Assess how food price changes impact the nutritional quality of UK diets, focusing on supermarket purchases and school food.
Understand the impact of climate- change driven food price shocks on the health of particular population groups, including families on low-incomes, and British farmers.
Inform policy and business practice – across agriculture, public procurement, Net-Zero and social welfare – to ensure the UK can adapt to climate-change induced food price volatility.
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This work is supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Building a Green Future strategic theme [Project number 49522] as part of the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) programme co-designed UKRI, Defra, the Met Office and the UK Government’s Climate Change Committee.
