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The report explores sourcing less and better meat as a potential strategy to mitigate climate change impacts, noting how the concept has gained traction in recent years...

In general, agriculture plays a crucial role in human survival as a primary source of food, alongside other sources such as fishing. Unfortunately, global warming and other environmental...

This report draws on insights gleaned from putting together the project “ The future of meat – storytelling and dialogues for improved decision making from 2021-2023 ”, integrating lessons...

Highlights: This knowledge brief aims to provide a set of evidence regarding the outcomes and impacts of agroecology. There is a strong theoretical basis and empirical evidence that food security outcomes...

In 2022, 738.9 million people faced hunger, nearly 2.4 billion in 2022 lacked regular access to adequate food, and over 3.1 billion could not...

The protein transition, aiming to rebalance protein intake between animal and alternative proteins, is gaining momentum in scientific and policy discussions on food system transformation. Here, using...

Amid a worsening climate crisis and slow progress in cutting greenhouse gases, sustainable agrifood systems practices can help countries and communities to adapt, build resilience...

While animal-source foods contribute to 16% of the global food supply and are an important protein source in human diets, their production uses a disproportionately large fraction...

There are a wide range of biotechnologies available and many of them have been, and are currently being, used in many situations and sectors worldwide to solve the myriad...

Highlights: The global livestock sector contributes a significant share to anthropogenic GHG emissions, but it can also deliver a significant share of the necessary mitigation effort. The need...