Data scientist Hannah Ritchie provides a hopeful analysis by detailing historical progress related to halting climate change. This book is aimed at a general audience and strives to provide useful information that counters doomsday headlines of climate catastrophe. 

This report by the World Resources Institute, a global research non-profit funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Bezos Earth Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation, highlights the trade-offs and counterfactual of sourcing less and better meat as a strategy for food companies to mitigate climate impacts in their supply chains. It explores a key tension in the meat debate, also highlighted in TABLE’s Meat the Four Futures podcast, that production systems associated with ‘better meat’ such as organic, often lead to higher land-use and GHG emissions per kilo. 

This report by the Rockefeller Foundation explores recommendations to boost agricultural production and nutrition in line with the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS). The report finds that more than 700 million people globally are undernourished. It calls for investment in underutilised indigenous and traditional food crops as a means to strengthen resilience to climate change and improve nutrition in Africa

This report on the global food crisis, aimed at humanitarian and development stakeholders and policymakers, provides detailed and interactive data related to global food insecurity and food-crisis across 59 countries or territories. 

This report from the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative links financial and environmental risks associated with livestock production using the planetary boundaries framework as a benchmark. It serves as a detailed reference for investors and highlights the poor performance of the industry in addressing these issues so far. It provides a comparison of nature based and engineered key solutions to aid investors’ evaluation of their potential feasibility. 

This book, edited by Allison M. Loconto and Douglas H. Constance, explores controversies within agri-food system debates amidst rising concerns associated with the Anthropocene. It details current understandings of the Athropocene and outlines core issues within agriculture, food, and debates around the need for agri-food system transitions. 

A recent campaign launched by the DEFRA appointed Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has faced criticism for contradicting scientific evidence. Experts say, the 'Let's Eat Balanced' campaign, describes misleading information that ignores negative health impacts associated with meat and dairy-rich diets, and lacks adequate attention to environmental issues connected to heavy meat consumption.

The Food Systems Countdown Initiative (FSCI) framework was released which seeks to monitor global food systems transformations following the UN global development, health and sustainability goals. The framework is designed to support policymakers, advisors, private sector actors and civil society actors monitoring food systems worldwide. 

This special Frontiers report from the UN environment program provides a discussion on the potential environmental, health, social and animal welfare implications of novel alternatives to animal products, including plant-based products, cultivated meat, and fermentation-derived products.