Collection

Food chain analysis

Information about the UK food chain.

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Total Factor Productivity of the Food Chain collection

This series looks at research into various aspects of the food chain including:

  • attitudes and behaviour around sustainable food purchasing
  • estimating food and drink elasticities
  • links between food and drink waste and purchases

Documents

Updates to this page

Published 25 July 2013
Last updated 19 June 2025 show all updates
  1. Updated page so as to advise on a replacement, more bespoke, collection page.

  2. Added the 'Total Factor Productivity of the United Kingdom Food Chain 2022 鈥� final release' statistical notice and updated the 'Historic statistics notices on food chain productivity' page.

  3. Added link to the food chain productivity, statistical notice and dataset, 2021 figures.

  4. Added link to British Food and Farming at a glance page.

  5. Updated with 2013 food chain productivity and historic data.

  6. First published.