Food systems

As climate and food-security pressures intensify, the world’s most populous continent sees clear opportunities to reimagine meat — just as it did for affordable solar panels.

This episode offers listeners a peek into Gastronomica’s next issue. “Coproducing ‘Planetary’ Eating Futures from Dakar: Dietary Diffusionism and the (Geo)Politics of Nutrition Transition” is co-authored by Branwyn Poleykett, Ndiaga Sall, Fatou Ndow, and Paul Young. Branwyn joins the show and talks with Gastronomica’s Jaclyn Rohel about the concept of the planetary diet and the problems with […]

The Food Foundation has produced a guide to the food system to help MPs and the new government

The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet https://theconversation.com/the-global-food-system-is-owned-by-an-ever-smaller-number-of-companies-its-damaging-our-health-our-communities-and-the-planet-232414

Growing the Local Food Sector: A snapshot of barriers and solutions https://www.localfoodplan.org/latest/may24-growing-the-local-food-sector/

The Role of Local Authorities in Shaping Local Food Systems https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/12004

The Organic Research Centre (ORC) is the UK’s leading independent organic research organisation. Changing the future of food and farming.

Understanding the environmental impact of Public Health England's updated Eatwell Guide nutritional guidance

Sustainable farming is necessary for decarbonization. But to get the world to net-zero, the agriculture sector must take action along the entire value chain.

Is organic produce better for you? Can organic farming feed the world? Those might be the wrong questions.

The FT's global business columnist Rana Foroohar believes globalisation has failed. In the first of three films based on her new book, 'Homecoming: the path to prosperity in a post-global world', she takes a trip across the US to see how neoliberal economic thinking has broken our food supply chains — and what can be done about it

Overproduction of cash crops, vast monocultures of chemical-dependent grains and massive animal agriculture operations are putting major stress not just on U.S. farmland — where they’re contributing to soil erosion, groundwater depletion and climate change — but these practices are also impacting areas such as the Brazilian Cerrado, where more than half the huge savanna […]

Touted as a cure for environmental and physical ills, the organic movement is falling short of high expectations

As the total global population continues to rise and economic growth drives a transition towards more resource-intensive diets, a growing number of consumers are concerned with how to reduce the environmental impact of their dietary choices. Consumers often see organic food as an effective way to reduce their impact: surveys reveal that regardless of geographic location, the primary motivations for organic food purchases are health1 and environmental concerns.2 Furthermore, consumers are often willing to pay more for organic products – some studies indicate a willingness-to-pay of up to 100 percent above standard prices.3 But is this a wise choice? Is going organic really the best way to reduce the environmental impact of our diets?

As we face the world’s greatest environmental challenges, BBC Earth brings you solutions in psychology, food, climate change, health, social trends, and technology that can make the world a more sustainable place.

Consumers are increasingly demanding higher standards for how their meat is sourced, with animal welfare and the impact on the environment factoring in many purchases. Unfortunately, many widely-used

"One Third" photography series by Klaus Pichler explores the connection between individual food waste and the global scale of food production.

With nearly 1 billion people around the world already going hungry each day and dozens of countries facing food shortages in the near future, food security has become an urgent issue

Nature Food - Modelled estimates of the environmental impact of dietary choices often fail to reflect true dietary practice. This study links a dietary dataset from 55,000 UK consumers with...

Ultra-processed foods: largest ever review shows many ill effects on health – how to understand the evidence https://theconversation.com/ultra-processed-foods-largest-ever-review-shows-many-ill-effects-on-health-how-to-understand-the-evidence-224806

The state of sustainable farming in the UK https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/the-state-of-sustainable-farming-in-the-uk

Authors of this blog post: Chaturangi Wickramaratne (IWMI), Sarah Jones (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Christine Lamanna (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Matthias Geck (CIFOR-ICRAF) The need for a paradigm shift in agriculture is becoming increasingly evident. High-input, simplified or intensive agricultural farms and landscapes fail to achieve food and nutritional security or provide resilience to global shocks, such as […]

Agronomy for Sustainable Development https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-023-00908-6

We are a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.

There’s real work of transformative adaptation to do to rise to present challenges – unsung, grassroots and local.

Food, Planet, Health: Moving towards healthy, inclusive, and nature-positive food systems. https://www.foodsystemeconomics.org

Counting the hidden cost of «cheap food» https://www.bioecoactual.com/en/2024/01/10/counting-the-hidden-cost-of-cheap-food/

Estimated micronutrient shortfalls of the EAT–Lancet planetary health diet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00006-2/abstract

Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w