Aims and Objectives:

To produce cases of technological innovation in a range of food products which look at food production, distribution and consumption as a system.

To identify technologies that are crucial for determining the sustainability of the food consumption and production systems in the studied food products.

To identify to what extent the key actors promoting technological change recognise the sustainability and system implications of their actions.

To review alternative strategies for achieving sustainability of the food consumption and production systems, such as organic and local foods.

To identify what policy issues arise from the analysis of the technological innovations and the strategies of UK and EU policy-making bodies concerning sustainability across the food consumption and production systems.