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The pivotal role of nitrogen to achieve environmental sustainable development goals and transform our food system is recognized in an ambitious nitrogen waste reduction target in the Farm to Fork...

The conventional intensification of agricultural practices (pesticides, energy, chemical fertilisers) based on the homogenisation of agriculture (variety, cropping systems, production function) is a source of increasing risks and threats...

The European Commission document on ‘European Research and Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security’ sets out how research and innovation policy is currently contributing to food and nutrition security...

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute have published a new brief (Jul 2022) that puts forward seven key areas and 18 practical actions that governments...

Today, the Commission is launching a public consultation on an Integrated Nutrient Management Action Plan. The Action Plan, announced in the EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies, will help...

This State of Knowledge Review synthesises the available information on the inter-linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and epidemic infectious diseases such as the Ebola virus; and the connection between biodiversity...

Forests harbour most of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity. The conservation of the world’s biodiversity is thus utterly dependent on the way in which we interact with and use the world’s forests. Forests...

The past two decades have seen an accumulation of theoretical and empirical evidence for the interlinkages between human health and well-being, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and agriculture. The COVID-19 pandemic...

Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit. The brief discusses the link between global food security and healthy people, animals, plants...

The TEEBAgriFood ‘Scientific and Economic Foundations’ report addresses the core theoretical issues and controversies underpinning the evaluation of the nexus between the agri-food sector, biodiversity and ecosystem services and externalities...