UK Farming Assurance schemes and foods produced to 'higher environmental production standards'

Introduction UK public sector food and catering could be a powerful lever to support the transition to a more sustainable food system. There is an urgent requirement to understand the impact of different farming production methods and their role in environmental sustainability in order to inform future Defra policy on public sector food procurement. Defra requires evidence to explore what farming assurance schemes are present in the market that could be described as meeting "higher environmental production standa...