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Digital advances will increase the sustainability of global fisheries and preserve marine ecosystems. Find out more here.

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...

Highlights Accelerating food system transformation requires myriad and rapid changes across all levels, themes, and geographies. The concept of ‘swarmed design’ may help...

This is a summary of key considerations in relation to commissioning, developing, and using formative research for more effective programmes. It provides a step‑by‑step guideline for the practical application of formative research...

Highlights Keeping food markets open to trade remains crucial for global food security. Despite three decades of reforms, scope remains for further openness...

Resilience is often associated with multivalued and multi-faceted strategies, programs, and projects. After approximately 15 years of empirical evidence in the literature, few research questions remain unexplored...

Global food security is at a tipping point. After decades of both absolute and relative improvement in food security worldwide, climate change, market disruptions and declining productivity...

In the past few years, we have seen growing calls for a transformation in global food systems in response to multiple challenges, including climate change. Food systems...

Seed is critical to food security as the first link in the food value chain (Galiè 2013) and can be a powerful agent of change (Reddy et al. 2007)...

Food systems are expected to provide food security and nutrition, to contribute to the livelihoods of millions, and to do so in an environmentally sustainable way. The broad outlines of these challenges...