Reports

• Soil Carbon and organic farming. A review of the evidence of agriculture’s potential to combat climate change, 2009 [PDF 2.07MB]
  Our report looks at the potential role that soil can play in sequestering atmospheric carbon, and concludes that wholesale conversion to organic farming on a global scale could sequester 11% of total global anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
  
  
• Food Futures: Strategies for resilient food and farming, 2009[PDF, 428KB]
  Our report outlines what we believe should be a blueprint for a more sustainable approach to food and farming.
   
• An inconvenient truth about food - neither secure, nor resilient, 2008 [PDF, 283 KB]
  This report on Britain's food security summarises how UK food self-sufficiency has declined over the past decade and that there is no overall, future-proofed 'Food Plan for Britain'.
   
• Rethinking Britain’s food security, 2008 [PDF, 502 KB]
  This research report for the Soil Association was written by the Centre for Food Policy at City University London. The report concludes that there is compelling evidence for a rethinking of policy around national food security, and that the UK government has a key role to play in this.
   
• Soil not oil, 2008 [PDF, 2.9 MB]
  This booklet presents the case for a sustainable and more secure future based on organic farming as we move towards a post-oil age.
   
• Feeding the Olympics, 2007 [PDF, 475 KB]
  This report from the Soil Association, Sustain and nef calls on London to deliver the promise to be the greenest and healthiest Games in terms of the food they provide, and sets out how this can be done.
   
• One planet agriculture - the case for action, 2007 [PDF, 2.3 MB]
  This booklet, from the Soil Association's 2007 annual conference, includes key articles on peak oil, energy use and the need to relocalise food.
   
• Food and values, 2006 [PDF, 957 KB]
  Food and Values questions the Government's current agricultural policy and whether it is out of step with changes in people's values and Britain's food revolution.
   
• Organic works, 2006 [PDF, 1.5 MB]
  The first ever report looking at employment on organic farms, and how organic farming is providing more jobs through organic farming and local food supply.
   
• Local food routes, 2001
  Summarises the work of Food futures partnerships which have worked together on developing sustainable local food economies across the UK. To get a copy of the report, contact our Local Food team.
   
• A share in the harvest, 2001 [PDF, 656 KB]
  This report focuses on how community supported agriculture (CSA) could help farmers and their customers develop a relationship based on mutual support and trust.
   
• Organic food and farming - myth and reality, 2001 [PDF, 174 KB]
  Produced as a resource for journalists, decision-makers, commentators and campaigners this report takes up the challenge of answering critics of the organic movement with factual, robust and well referenced information.