University of Oxford press release: A policy known as sustainable intensification could help meet the challenges of increasing demands for food from a growing global population, argues a team of scientists in an article in the journal Science.

The FCRN’s Tara Garnett, and Charles Godfray of Oxford’s Future of Food programme have lead authored a new paper published in Science, written in collaboration with a range of academics.

This paper considers different perspectives on food sustainability (production challenge, consumption challenge, socio-economic challenge), and in turn, their implications for nutrition and climate change, and their strengths and weaknesses.

The report is based on discussions held at a two day workshop held in January 2012 which was coorganised by The Food Climate Research Network and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food

This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both GHG-intensive stages in the food chain, and GHG-intensive food types.

This paper reviews the life cycle analysis (LCA) approach to quantifying these emissions and argues that, given the dynamic complexity of our food system, it offers a limited understanding of livestock’s GHG impacts.

Notes from a presentation given at an event organised by the Food Ethics Council in September 2009.