Food policy research can help empower consumers, producers, and policymakers to address food systems challenges and make decisions that facilitate healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable food systems transformation. Lessons from the past 50 years of food policy can better prepare us to move forward to 2050: achieving sustainable and equitable solutions to hunger, malnutrition, and poverty will require a shift in how we study, implement, and evaluate innovations in technologies, programming, governance, investments, and markets. This chapter provides an overview of the thematic chapters of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report, which look at the impact of food policy research on agrifood transformation, sustainability, support to farmers, lives and livelihoods, and governance of food systems, and point to future challenges and opportunities.
Highlights: To measure global, regional and national food systems progress, this study leveraged existing target-setting methods and developed a benchmarking approach. This resulted in two types of reference...
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed ERM‑BD801, a certified reference material (CRM) consisting of cocoa butter certified for five key triacylglycerols...
This study critically examines how EU bioeconomy policy narratives prior to 2025 construct the concept of bioeconomy and how the extended peer community makes sense of...

