Food Policy and Nutrition

A collection of standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

Covers: Food safety and quality; Farming; Sustainable Agriculture and Agricultural trade.

An agency of the European Union set up in 2002 to serve as an impartial source of scientific advice to risk managers and to communicate on risks associated with the food chain.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

IFAD is an international financial institution and specialized United Nations agency.

A section of the FAO website covering nutrition and food composition.

Provides global strategic guidance and advocacy in nutrition to ensure engagement and investment at the highest level and ensures progress towards nutrition security for all.

The World Food Programme is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization, the largest one focused on hunger and food security, and the largest provider of school meals.

Topics covered include: food fortification; food safety; healthy diets; infant nutrition; nutrition and obesity.

Brings together academics, civil society groups and sustainable food businesses to share the knowledge needed to help steer the UK towards a more sustainable food system.

The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food is an interdisciplinary programme of research and policy engagement concerning all aspects of the food system, based at the University of Oxford

The Centre brings together world leading research teams across Imperial College’s Faculties.

The SOAS Food Studies Centre is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to the study of the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of food, historically and in the contemporary moment, from production, to exchange, to preparation, to consumption.

BANT acts as a professional body for Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners in one-to-one clinical practice and as a self-regulator for BANT Registered Nutritionists.

BAPEN aims to increase awareness of malnutrition and advance nutritional care of patients in both hospital and community settings.

Provides evidence-based information on food and nutrition, focusing on nutritional science awareness at all levels.

A leader in global food and drink science and research.

Feeding Britain is working with partners across the UK to develop sustainable and dignified approaches to protect people from hunger.

The voice of the UK food and drink industry.

UK’s leading professional body for those involved in all aspects of food science and technology.

Nesta is working with partners across the public, private and non-profit sector to design, test and scale innovative solutions to reducing obesity.

Research areas include how food innovation can improve health.

Sustain is a powerful alliance of organisations and communities working together for a better system of food, farming and fishing, and cultivating the movement for change.

Humanitarian agency fighting against hunger and malnutrition.

Aims to advance the education, science and practice of nutrition.

American organisation providing state and national leadership on food and nutrition policy, programs, and services.

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives in a climate crisis.

Center for Food Safety's mission is to empower people, support farmers, and protect the earth from the harmful impacts of industrial agriculture.

Supported by the EU, food innovation community which creates connections right across the food system that stimulate new ideas and inventions to drive change.

The FNIC is one of several information centres at the National Agricultural Library, part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

The Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, works to end the injustices that cause hunger through research, education and action.

The Food Security Information Network is a technical global platform for the exchange of expertise, knowledge and best practises on food security and nutrition analysis. Its purpose is to promote timely, independent and consensus-based information while also highlighting and addressing critical data and information gaps.

A Food Think Tank founded in 2013 to reform the food system. Its goal is to highlight environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty.

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) stimulates investment in nutritious school meals, unlocking political will and resources necessary to implement and sustain national programs.

The Global Nutrition and Policy Consortium is an initiative based at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy which involves collaborating public health and nutrition experts worldwide.

IATP works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Nutrition Connect aims to empower public and private sector actors to collaborate so together we can identify innovative solutions, form novel partnerships and share good practices that drive investment and action to improve nutrition.

Fights against global malnutrition.

An independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition

The School Meals Coalition drives actions to urgently improve and scale up school meal programmes to ensure that every child can receive a healthy, nutritious meal in school by 2030.

Recognized as the authority on school nutrition.

An independent public health nutrition charity.

A think-tank and charity that provide independent advice on the ethics of food and farming.

Food for Life brings schools, nurseries, hospitals and care homes, and their surrounding communities together around the core ethos of healthy, tasty and sustainable food.

A registered charity working in partnership with researchers, campaigners, community bodies, industry, Government and citizens to galvanise the UK’s diverse agents of change.

The society is a registered charity, dedicated to delivering its mission of advancing the scientific study of nutrition and its application to the maintenance of human and animal health.

The Power of Nutrition is an independent charitable foundation and innovative platform, raising money and creating partnerships to transform children’s futures.

A leading voice in the sustainable food movement, advocating for a visionary future for UK farming.

The Sustainable Food Trust is a registered charity founded in 2011 in response to the worsening human and environmental crises that are associated with the vast majority of today’s food and farming systems.

An anti-poverty charity and community of food banks.