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The integrated farming system (IFS) is a holistic farming approach specially designed for small/marginal farmers to enhance the system productivity, profitability, and employment generation of their farm, ultimately...

This discussion paper highlights the interlinkages between nutrition and the environment across various dimensions from policy to impact. It focuses on diets and food systems, which lie at the nutrition−environment...

Highlights: Globally, 2.2 billion people have no access to clean water while 3.5 billion people are forced to manage daily without hygienic...

Highlights: Characteristics and principles of sustainable food production were explicitly discussed. Economics, society and environment are three pillars of sustainable food production. Urban agriculture...

Urban forestry is not a one-size-fits-all solution; each city and region, with its own unique set of challenges and opportunities, requires tailored strategies. In recognition of the diversity and distinctiveness...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) belong to all of us. But amid resurgent conflict, climate havoc, and social and health crises, we risk losing sight of them...

Highlights Governments and civil society organisations have actively promoted local food systems over the past decades. We systematically test eight common claims...

No area of human activity is more essential to society than a sustainable Food and Agriculture System (FAS). With projections that the global population will grow to as much as 10 billion...

Highlights Animal source foods are seen by some as unhealthy, unsustainable, and unethical. Outcomes depend on practical specificities, not on the fact that animals are involved...

Highlight on the global dimension of the research programme (Cluster 6) The underlying paradigm of Cluster 6 is the need for a transformative change of the EU economy and society to reduce environmental degradation...