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Changing to healthier & more sustainable diets: how can this be achieved?

FCRN organised a workshop whose aim was to bring people together to develop a research agenda on how our eating practices might be shifted in healthier and more sustainable directions. Particular emphasis was placed on meat eating as an exemplar of an important, yet difficult aspect of our consumption practices, and one with a strong bearing on health and sustainability.

UNEP’s 10 Year Framework of Programs on Sustainable Consumption and Production

UNEP’s 10 Year Framework of Programs (10YFP) is an initiative focused on sustainable consumption and production. It aims to enhance international cooperation to accelerate the shift towards this goal in both developed and developing countries.

The Local Food Programme - Assessing the return on investment of Local Food

This Local food grants report by University of Gloucestershire’s Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) assesses the benefits created by the Local Food Programme using a Social Return on Investment (SROI) approach. The SROI approach was developed from social accounting and cost-benefit analysis. The outcome assessment is based on a ratio of benefit-to-investment calculation including social, environmental and economic values.

Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2012 and sustainable diets

Appetite for change

Appetite for Change: social, economic, and environmental transformations in China’s food system

This report provides a detailed and integrative analysis of the dramatic changes in China’s food system over the last 35 years, and explores the linkages among the environmental, health, economic and cultural trends that are emerging.

Film: Enough Is Enough

Fish farms to produce nearly two thirds of global food fish supply by 2030

A new joint report by World Bank, FAO and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) entitled "Fish to 2030: Prospects for Fisheries and Aquaculture” looks at prospects for fisheries and aquaculture and suggests that aquaculture will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030. It highlights the continuing role of China as a major driver of aquaculture demand, and charts the decline in the relative importance of capture fisheries.

One planet living - the case for Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Post-2015 development agenda

Oxfam: Good enough to eat - Food Index