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Net Zero measures and implications for food safety: Summary of workshop discussions

Appendix 1 – Complete list of 41 activities

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  1. Changed fertilizer practices including new formulations and more organic systems of production
  2. New crop and plant varieties produced by conventional and new breeding methodologies
  3. Less chemical options for pest control and moves to more Integrated Pest Management
  4. Changes to cultivation methods – reduced tillage
  5. Changed rotations and crop mixtures
  6. Policy changes to increase on-farm biodiversity and carbon sequestration
  7. Development of circular economy principles to utilise waste streams
  8. Reduction of inputs (e.g. water, biocides) that affect food safety
  9. Improving nutrient management
  10. Protection of peatlands and increased carbon sequestration
  11. Encouragement to protect soil biodiversity
  12. Increased use of agroforestry, cover and nitrogen fixing crops
  13. Mixed rotations which include livestock
  14. More hedgerows, woodland and forests
  15. Investments in Anaerobic Digestor plants
  16. Land use change; Balance between for agriculture and for carbon storage
    1. a. Planting woody biomass (for energy production / Biochar)
    2. b. Restoration of peatlands
    3. c. Agroforestry
  17. Mixed rotations including livestock
  18. Greater integration of arable and livestock farming
  19. Multi-stream culture systems (e.g., fish plus water plants such as watercress)
  20. Ocean farming and harvesting of seaweed
  21. Novel animal feed; insect protein, soy replacement, new proteins
  22. Insect feed in aquaculture
  23. Supplements for livestock to reduce methane
  24. Livestock and rumen microbes as part of the pangenome approach
  25. Livestock breeding (traditional and/or GE and/or GM) for more sustainable traits
  26. Bio based and other novel packaging and food contact materials
  27. Reduced plastic packaging
  28. Conversion of and reuse of food waste
  29. Abstraction of slurry (to allow use of low emission slurry spreading machines)
  30. Manure management; anaerobic digestion
  31. More plant-based diets
  32. Novel proteins in consumer diet; insects, cultured meat, meat and dairy substitutes
  33. Decarbonisation of crops grown in polytunnels
  34. Vertical Farming systems
  35. Robots and drones used in farming systems
  36. Animal and plant health Sustainable intensification - Lower carbon agronomy
    1. a. Intensive indoor dairy and livestock systems
    2. b. Intensive plant growing systems
  37. high-tech production systems (glasshouses, Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), hydroponics)
  38. Reduced water uses
    1. a. Recycled water
    2. b. Reduced washing
  39. Energy use reduction measures
  40. Land-based renewables and energy storage, for on-farm and export
  41. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage - not in the food system, but uses land so will affect the food system
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