Developing a Climate Impact Indicator Framework for the UK Agri‐Food Sector: A Literature Review and Stakeholder Co‐Production Approach

Consistent monitoring and reporting of the impacts of weather in a changing climate is a key component in being able to attribute future risk and losses to weather variations. This allows the production of evidence required to facilitate mitigation, adaptation strategies and influence policy implementation. The agri‐food sector has always been impacted by weather and climate, but whilst data are consistently produced for metrics relating to the sector, there is no consistent reporting of how weather and climate are influencing these. This paper describes the foundation of a new proposed annual report, being produced for the Royal Meteorological Society's State of the Climate for the UK Agri‐Food Sector project in partnership with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and UK Met Office. We identify and detail the ways in which weather has affected the agri‐food sector, comprising of a literature and data review and outputs of a co‐production workshop with experts from across the sector. We then provide a summary of the quantitative impact indicators that will be used in the future report, which look at Water, Crop Suitability, Disease and Pest, Extreme Events and Price and Yields, outlining how they are being produced, and the rationale behind them.