Our Publications
Sharing world-leading thought on food policy
Below you can find reports, briefing papers, academic articles and chapters, and other publications from the Centre for Food Policy.
For a full list of all academic publications please see City St George’s Research Online portal and visit individual researchers’ academic profiles for their publications.
Featured publications
Submission to the DHSC Energy Drinks Consultation
December 2025
Centre for Food Policy publications
For a full list of research outputs from the Centre for Food Policy please visit City St George’s Research Online.
‘Building resilient food systems through local and regional governance: Report of the City Food Policy Symposium 2024,’ April 2025.
Report of the 2019 City Food Symposium: ‘How to develop and deliver a national food policy: a global perspective,’ March 2020.
Centre for Food Policy Annual report for 2019, February 2020.
Centre for Food Policy Strategy 2017-2021
Centre for Food Policy 1994-2016: teaching, researching and influencing policy, 2016.
Report of the 2018 City Food Symposium: How can evidence of lived experience make food policy more effective and equitable in addressing major food system challenges?
For a full list of research outputs from the Centre for Food Policy please visit City St George’s Research Online.
To see a full list of individual academics’ publications, visit their academic profile page.
’45 Actions to orient food systems towards environmental sustainability: co-benefits and trade-offs’ and accompanying list of references, February 2023.
‘Who is making food policy in Australia,’ April 2022.
‘Understanding Lived Experience of Food Environments to Inform Policy: An Overview of Research Methods,‘ February 2021
‘42 policies and actions to orient food systems towards healthier diets for all,’ December 2020.
‘Who is making food policy in India,’ October 2020.
‘Who is making food policy in South Africa,’ October 2020.
‘Who is making food policy in England,’ October 2020.
Sixth Rethinking Food Policy Brief ‘Public sector global food governance,’ 2019.
Fifth Rethinking Food Policy Brief ‘Policy coherence in food systems,’ 2019.
Fourth Rethinking Food Policy Brief ‘Embedding food in all policies’, 2019.
Third Rethinking Food Policy Brief ‘Integrated Food Policy: What is it, and how can it help transform food systems?’, 2019.
Second Rethinking Food Policy Brief ‘Understanding the food system: Why it matters for food policy’, 2019.
First Rethinking Food Policy brief ‘Tackling food systems challenges: the role of food policy,’ 2019.
Centre for Food Policy Brief on our work: our purpose, goals and what we offer, 2019.
The Centre for Food Policy looking at the food systems sweet spot: Connecting food systems for co-benefits: How can food systems combine diet-related health with environmental and economic policy goals?, 2018.
Read the Centre’s submission to the UK Government’s Child Poverty Taskforce, January 2025.
Read the response to the Scottish government’s consultation on Restricting Promotions of Food and Drink High In Fat, Sugar or Salt, May 2024, co-authored by Professor Christina Vogel.
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Photobook for the Hounslow participatory case study, Feeding our families in a cost-of-living crisis: parents’ experiences and ideas for change, March 2024.
Position statement in response to the multiple global crises impacting food systems, December 2022.
Response to the EFRA Committee COVID-19 and Food Supply Inquiry, May 2020.
Summary document of the 2018 City Food Symposium: ‘Why engage with evidence of lived experience as a means of addressing major food systems challenges?’
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