What’s Cooking? Adaptation & Mitigation in the UK Food System

Understanding climate change is pivotal to addressing the global demand for food. Although the extent to which climate change will exacerbate existing stresses or create new challenges for the food system is highly uncertain, finding ways to respond within this context is essential because:1) A delayed response will lead to further accumulations of greenhouse gases and2) The food system is inherently complex - eliminating uncertainty is not possible.This report presents findings based on an interdisciplinary systems level scenario approach designed specifically to address complex societal problems. The project was funded by the Sustainable Consumption Institute to explore how the UK food system may develop and change in response to futures bounded by more or less extreme climate impacts and emission cuts.