Projects | Food
The animal welfare provenance of food - communicating and engaging with consumers
Started: November 2011
Due for completion: April 2012
Defra
A rapid review of the evidence on existing interventions to engage with consumers on the animal welfare provenance of food and other related issues....
Understanding the retail business case for promoting sustainable diets
Started: September 2011
Due for completion: March 2012
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
WWF’s One planet Food Programme aims to reduce the global environmental and social impacts of UK food production and consumption. Brook Lyndhurst have been commissioned by WWF to undertake a programme of research to demonstrate the business case for retailers to promote sustainable diets....
Evaluating the impact of Local Partnership Adviser activities in England
Started: September 2011
Due for completion: March 2012
WRAP
The LPA activities include LFHW cascade training and awareness-raising workshops, which aim to enable individuals to both reduce their own household food waste, and to cascade food waste prevention tips and advice to other members of the community/business. The evaluation aims to establish the effectiveness of this approach in achieving behaviour change both directly and via the cascades....
Supporting change in the retail environment: consumer food waste prevention reviews
Started: July 2011
Due for completion: March 2012
WRAP
30 tailored consumer food waste prevention reviews for a range of Courtauld Commitment (CC2) signatories....
Fairtrade Foundation: Consumer insight
Started: June 2011
Due for completion: September 2011
Fairtrade Foundation
The Fairtrade Foundation has appointed Brook Lyndhurst to undertake a programme of consumer research, to build on their success by further enabling people to turn their ethical concerns into practical actions....
Food RisC – Perceptions and communication of food risks and benefits across Europe
Started: July 2010
Due for completion: June 2013
European Commission
The European Commission has appointed Brook Lyndhurst, along with 13 other partner organisations from across Europe, to identify and characterise food risk and benefit issues and the consequent implications for risk communicators. ...
Are labels the answer? Barriers to buying higher animal welfare products
Started: January 2010
Due for completion: April 2010
Defra
An investigation into how best to overcome barriers to consumers purchasing higher welfare food products...
Consumer insight: date labels and storage guidance
Started: February 2010
Ended: January 2011
WRAP
A project for WRAP designed to enhance the evidence base around consumer understanding, interpretation and use of date labels and storage guidance. ...
Consumer understanding of green terms
Started: October 2009
Ended: March 2010
Defra
An investigation into consumer responses to, and understanding of, the terms used to refer to 'green' issues, from recycling to air miles; and from carbon footprints to water neutrality. ...
Future trends in resource efficiency and waste generation in the food chain
Started: June 2009
Ended: January 2010
Defra
A scoping study, structured as a scenario planning exercise, to explore possible future trends over the next decade, their potential impacts on the behaviour of the food chain, and the resulting waste, water and greenhouse gas implications....
Helping consumers reduce food waste - a retail survey
Started: February 2009
Ended: October 2009
WRAP
A survey of products sold by major UK retailers to inform understanding of a range of factors believed to influence household food waste...
Assessment of green claims in marketing
Started: March 2009
Ended: October 2009
Defra
A review of 'green' claims in marketing from 2006 to 2009, taking in both statistical data and the perspective of the advertising and marketing community.......
Public attitudes to emerging food technologies
Started: August 2008
Ended: November 2008
Food Standards Agency
A rapid evidence review to consolidate the FSA’s understanding of public attitudes to emerging food technologies, and to identify gaps in the existing evidence....
London's food sector greenhouse gases
Started: January 2008
Ended: June 2008
Greater London Authority
This report builds on the Mayor's 2007 Climate Change Action Plan and the London Food Strategy (2006) by quantifying the contribution of London's food sector to the capital's greenhouse gas emissions...
Mid-campaign survey on food waste metrics
Started: October 2007
Ended: April 2008
WRAP
This project aimed to develop a metric to monitor the impact of WRAP's food waste minimisation campaign. In order to do this, Brook Lyndhurst analysed and compared survey results from five waves of research with thousands of adults across the UK....
Consumer behaviour in relation to food packaging
Started: October 2007
Ended: December 2007
WRAP
Brook Lyndhurst was commissioned by WRAP to examine two aspects of consumer behaviour in relation to food waste: understanding (and use) of on-pack guidance dates; and demand for alternative portion sizes...
Household food waste: attitudes and behaviours
Started: November 2006
Ended: April 2007
WRAP
This project was designed to gain a better understanding of public attitudes to food waste and the values that underpin them. The findings from the research, taken in conjunction with a number of parallel projects, fed into the development of WRAP's Love Food, Hate Waste campaign....
London Food Strategy
Started: October 2004
Ended: May 2006
London Development Agency, London Food, Mayor of London and others
Brook Lyndhurst was responsible for researching and drafting the London Mayor's food strategy and for introducing amendments resulting from the public consultation on the document...
Reward cards & healthy choices: A London scoping study
Started: October 2004
Ended: March 2005
London Region Public Health Group
This scoping study, for the NHS London Region, examined the potential for introducing reward card schemes to encourage healthy behaviours. ...
Brook Lyndhurst Blog
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Brook Lyndhurst in action: Coppicing for London Wetland Centre
The main activity for this year’s corporate volunteer day was coppicing. For those who don’t know – which at the time included a couple of us, who met the news of our activity with blank faces - coppicing is to “cut back (a tree or shrub) to ground level periodically to stimulate growth.” On the morning of [...]
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How to get ‘generation snooze’ to use fewer resources
This was originally a guest post from Brook Lyndhurst on the Green Alliance’s Green Living Blog: http://greenlivingblog.org.uk/ To use our resources more sustainably, do we ‘just need to wake up’? This is the suggestion from Generation Awake, an EU campaign fronted by three singing shopping bags, which was launched last month with the aim of making [...]
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Brook Lyndhurst success at CIWM awards
It is not often that we at Brook Lyndhurst leave our spreadsheets behind and dress up for an awards ceremony, but we were proud and honoured to be informed that our Household Waste Prevention – A Review Of Evidence paper was to be awarded the James Jackson medal at the CIWM Professional Awards 2011. The [...]