Summary
The Government Food Strategy (2022) is an official DEFRA policy document setting out England's approach to reforming the food system across health, sustainability, and resilience dimensions. It responds in part to the independent National Food Strategy review (Dimbleby, 2021) and articulates cross-departmental commitments on issues including school food standards, food poverty, land use, and the domestic agri-food sector. The strategy is a high-level framework document rather than an empirical study, and its commitments are broadly stated rather than operationalised with detailed implementation mechanisms.
UK applicability
This document is directly applicable to England and, in many respects, to UK-wide food policy debates; it sets the legislative and strategic context within which farming, public procurement, and food environment policy operates, making it a key reference for practitioners and researchers working on UK food systems.
Key measures
Childhood obesity prevalence (target: 50% reduction by 2030); food security indicators; domestic food production volumes; dietary uptake of fruit and vegetables; food system greenhouse gas emissions
Outcomes reported
Sets out the government's long-term policy commitments across food security, healthy and sustainable diets, domestic food production, and supply chain resilience; includes specific targets such as halving childhood obesity by 2030 and growing the domestic horticulture and protein sectors.
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