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...
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Food greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to land use changes such as converting forests to agricultural land have been decreasing over the past 20 years...
The Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) play a vital role in supporting food systems transformations and providing governments, institutions and communities with assistance in food system adaptation. To strengthen the RBAs’...
The agri-food system (AFS) employs about one third of the global workforce and contributes about one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This together with its...
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...
Food trade plays a key role in achieving global food security. With a growing consumer demand for diverse food products, transportation has emerged as a key link...
Feeding humanity puts enormous environmental pressure on our planet. These pressures are unequally distributed, yet we have piecemeal knowledge of how they...
There is increasing scientific evidence that society is approaching a tipping point on climate change, in which self-reinforcing feedbacks will accelerate deterioration on a global scale (Rockström, 2020)...
Food trade plays a key role in achieving global food security. With a growing consumer demand for diverse food products, transportation has emerged as a key link...
This article reviews how food system activities contribute to climate change and how dietary changes affect food systems. It shows that while emissions from food...