Publications

Browse our latest Sustainable Food Reports, policy briefing papers, open letters to government and more.

Sustainable Food Reports

Fields of Opportunity: Profitable Farming for the Green Transition

  • The role of farming and farmland in the green transition
  • The importance of profitability
  • A deep dive into the Yorkshire Food Powerhouse
  • Sustainability reporting in the supply chain

Coming: 7 July 2025

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RPG Sustainable Food Report 2025
RPG Sustainable Food Report 2023

Building a More Resilient Agri-Food Value Chain

  • Value chain challenges and solutions.
  • Explore the true value of British agriculture to economy, society and environment.
  • Discover Surrey’s contribution to the British food industry.
  • Find out about sustainability reporting for farm businesses.
  • Plus articles on green finance, careers in farming and the internet of things.

Published July 2024

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Enhancing the Financial and Environmental Sustainability of British Agriculture, Food and Farming

  • Financial and sustainability reports for British agriculture.
  • Lincolnshire and The UK Food Valley: a model for success.
  • Creating the conditions for investing in sustainable farming.
  • The evolving role of land use in a sustainable economy.
  • The food industry after Brexit.
  • Questioning how we value food.

Published July 2023

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RPG Sustainable Food Report 2022
RPG Sustainable Food Report 2021

Fair and Sustainable Food Pricing

  • The value of the rural economy to Britain’s ambitions for green growth, public health and levelling up.
  • How Kent’s Food Powerhouse stacks up against the FTSE 100.
  • Challenges to food pricing, problems in the supply chain and overcoming them.
  • The Brexit impact.
  • Nature on prescription.
  • Electric vehicles in food and farming.
  • Food poverty.

Published May 2022

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RED Talk Briefing Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papers co-authored by Mark Lumsdon-Taylor

Rural Policy Group – The Covid Papers