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The current debate on the sustainability of bio-based products questions the environmental benefits of replacing fossil- by bio-resources. Here, we analyze the environmental trade-offs of 98 emerging bio-based materials...

Biohubs are increasingly seen as essential to the cost-effective deployment of bioenergy at scale for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors like heavy-duty vehicles and heat. The term biohub refers to an intermediate place...

This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...

This resource of “Our World in Data” decrypts the environmental impact of agriculture and proposes numerous data for crops production and livestock farming.

Highlights: The text emphasizes the urgent need for a transformation of food systems, highlighting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of such a transformation. It outlines the negative impacts of current...

Key messages: Increasing agricultural productivity growth sustainably is necessary to address the triple challenge of providing sufficient affordable and nutritious food for a growing global population, while...

Discourse on the relationship between food production, healthy eating and sustainability has become increasingly prominent and controversial in recent years. Research groups often take one...

Rationale and objective: Improving diet quality while decreasing environmental impacts is an important challenge for a healthy and sustainable food system. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the most...

Food systems are the largest users of land and water resources worldwide. Using a multi-model approach to track food through the global trade network, we calculated...

In this report, published by EIT Food North-West in collaboration with Innovate UK KTN, we explore how the ruminant livestock industry in the UK and Ireland can achieve net...