Behind the scenes of the National Food Strategy

Behind the scenes of the National Food Strategy Behind the scenes of the National Food Strategy Lessons from the UK’s experience Behind the scenes of the National Green Alliance Food Strategy: lessons from the UK’s Green Alliance is an independent experience think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the Authors environment. [...] The next phase of this project was in 2010, when the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) published Food 2030, widening the scope to health and food security, but the project was abandoned soon after due to a change of government. [...] The first was the gulf between the current operation of the UK’s food system and the extent of change required for more positive health, nature and climate outcomes. [...] For the subsequent two documents that made up the full strategy, The plan and the Evidence pack, the ‘fruitiness’ was dialled back, to avoid the risk that the case for food system change would not be taken seriously. [...] However, the NFS did succeed in changing the way the government, business and civil society think about the food system in the UK.