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This discussion paper highlights the interlinkages between nutrition and the environment across various dimensions from policy to impact. It focuses on diets and food systems, which lie at the nutrition−environment...

This Legal Brief reviews the concept of sustainability and systems thinking in legislative efforts, as well as relevant guiding principles. It then reviews a number of legal tools and mechanisms...

This article explores the various divergences and convergences between the international and national legal approaches, reviews soil and land management law as well as food security and nutrition legal...

Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life can boost a country’s long-run economic growth, foster social inclusion, and help countries reach the 2030...

Highlights: Agri-food systems transformation has societal momentum. Agri-food studies is an emerging domain within transition studies. We identify gaps in the agri-food systems debate...

In Southeast Asia (SEA), the joint process of deforestation, agricultural land expansion, and intensification has led to vast soil erosion and a general decrease in soil and water quality...

Agricultural and rural policies can benefit from potential synergies when designed correctly. Broadly speaking, agricultural policies target farms and food production, while rural...

Due to lack of enough support, innovation in the agricultural sector in Africa is still too scarce to meet the great challenges that agriculture is facing (climate change, demographic growth...

The integrated assessment of agricultural value chains through economic, social and environmental analyses is aimed at providing the necessary and sufficient information to guide or support investment decisions in the context...

Highlights: A concept, for integration of digital technologies to enhance future smart and sustainable agricultural systems, was developed. Main challenges of data management in smart agriculture...