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Food-system innovations can play a crucial role in meeting increasing food demands, minimising supply-chain disruptions, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. They can also...

Gene-editing technologies represent a promising new tool for plant and animal breeding in low- and middle-income countries. They enhance precision and efficiency over current breeding methods...

Key Messages: Throughout the world, high-quality, timely and relevant data are key to inform actions that promote better access to food and improved nutrition. Despite the...

Marine and coastal habitats are experiencing unprecedented environmental change - with some of the drivers of change due to overlooked and emerging issues in the areas of resource-exploitation, new-technology and ecosystem...

Non-state actors, global conscientiousness, social media and the internationalisation of decision-making are forming new, multi-layered governing systems.

Highlights We assess the impact of technology, especially information & communication technology, on food security. We use a sample of 106 countries over the...

Increasing global connectedness will continue to foster the interaction among non-state actors beyond states capacity to control it, thus challenging in several ways traditional...

Transnational organised crime is estimated as having a budget twice larger than all military budgets combined. How much influence and governing power could non-state actors...

Globalisation of all sectors — economic, security, information, technological development, etc.— together with increased mobility and solidarity of the population worldwide are accelerating the spread and implementation...

Policymaking has to adapt to an increasingly digital and data-driven world as well as an increasingly (dis)informed citizenry. AI algorithms are increasingly impacting all aspects of life and add...