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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...

Key messages: The current debate around the need to change the way food is produced, valued, and consumed involves a wide range of actors, from civil society and expert groups...

To build sustainable, resilient, healthy, and just agri-food systems, we need to urgently rethink the way we produce, distribute, and consume food. The multiple crises of climate...

In general, agriculture plays a crucial role in human survival as a primary source of food, alongside other sources such as fishing. Unfortunately, global warming and other environmental...

Highlights: The systematic review synthesizes 115 of 1547 academic studies collected from different databases. The evolution of food systems resilience assessment is driven by global and regional shocks...

Highlights: This review focused on the current policy promotion of cell-based meat. Current regulations focus on the safety and labelling measures. Environmental policy at a higher level tends to justify...

Key findings: In an average year, poor households lose 5 percent of their total income due to heat stress relative to better-off households, and 4.4 percent...

The overwhelming scientific consensus points towards the growing frequency and intensity of climate-induced shocks to the global food system. Historically, public food stockholding – the acquisition, storage...

Highlights: The body of literature on gender and climate change has grown substantially over the past decade. The literature highlights gender inequalities in vulnerability, climate actions and decisions...

Global growth is expected to slow to 2.4 percent in 2024—the third consecutive year of deceleration—reflecting the lagged and ongoing effects of tight monetary policies to rein in decades-high inflation...