Coherence and Co-benefits: aligning UK food supply and related policies with dietary guidelines for better health and environment outcomes
PhD candidate Niamh Kelly is currently undertaking her PhD project (Sept 2022 – Sept 2026) as part of the UK Food Systems Centre for Doctoral Training. This research project aims to explore how dietary guidelines can be used to guide wider food systems policies to ensure the system is supporting healthy and sustainable diets.
Her PhD project specifically on food availability, and highlights the discrepancies between the UK food supply, and particularly domestic food production, and the Eatwell Guide (full paper available here). Using the results from this, Niamh will be carrying out policy coherence analysis between agriculture and trade policies, and has developed a land use scenario to model potential biodiversity impacts of changing the food supply.
Image by Richard Murgatroyd courtesy of the Nutrition Society.
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