Changing agri-chicken for net zero. Report on participatory workshop methodology and detailed findings

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‘Changing Chicken for Net Zero’ was a Scoping Project funded by the UKRI Agri-food for Net-Zero network (AFN+) it ran Sept 2023 to June 2024. This report discusses findings from a research workshop with stakeholders in the UK poultry industry held in December 2023. The workshop explored participants beliefs and practices linked to awareness of engaging with net zero using participatory research methods. The aim was to advance understanding of how this group understood opportunities for action, both their own and others, within the food system to support the UK government’s 2022 Net Zero Strategy for the agri-food system.This report gives details of the participatory workshop methodology for an in-person workshop with poultry industry stakeholders held on Friday, 1st December 2023, from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Applied Group Office in Chesterfield. The workshop brought together stakeholders working in the chicken industry, covering welfare, production, breeding, nutrition, health, business and consumption, along with the interdisciplinary research team. This report should be read in conjunction with the report Changing Agri-Chicken for Net Zero. Findings from an industry workshop which summarises the industry beliefs and practices around the poultry industry’s response to net zero targets that we learnt at the workshop. Instead this report describes in detail the Participatory Workshop methodology and gives greater detail on the findings from certain activities.

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ORCID for Emma Roe: orcid.org/0000-0003-4674-2133

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