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Photo: Fooding around, Fruit Walla New Delhi, Flickr, Creative Commons License 2.0 generic.

The contribution of city-scale actions to the overall food system’s environmental impacts

This paper by FCRN member Dana Boyer examines how policy interventions at the city scale can affect three environmental outcomes of food production: greenhouse gas emissions, water use and land use. It uses India’s capital city Delhi as a case study. It sets out to assess the magnitude of city-scale food system actions as compared to certain actions which can be taken beyond the city boundary.

Photo: Eric Elnem, Food rescued from dumpster, Flickr, Creative Commons License 2.0 generic.

Wasted food, wasted nutrients - study highlights nutrients lost as result of food wasted in US

This paper shows that a huge amount of nutrients is wasted each day in the US food supply, and that much of this waste includes important nutrients that are currently under-consumed in the US. It is one of the first studies to calculate the nutritional value of food wasted in the US at the retail and consumer levels, shining a light on just how much protein, fibre and other important nutrients end up in the landfill in a single year.

UK household food waste report

This report by WRAP provides estimates for total and avoidable household food waste for 2014 and 2015, for the UK and compares this to previous findings.

Food Consumption in the City: Practices and patterns in Urban Asia and the Pacific

Edited by Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma and Suren Erkman

Photo credit: Port of San Diego, Port of San Diego's Top Green Chef Cook-off, Flickr, Creative Commons licence 2.0

Blog: Let’s eat out more! Re-configuring a feminist vision for a sustainable future

In this blog Jessica Paddock and Alan Warde outline a feminist vision of how we might change our eating habits in order to meet our food climate mitigation requirements.

Policies and actions

Policies and actions to shift eating patterns: What works?

This literature review, undertaken by the Food Climate Research Network and Chatham House, and in association with EAT who also kindly supported the work, considers what the evidence has to say about effective ways of shifting people’s consumption patterns in more sustainable and healthy directions.

Mobile apps tracking waste

Wise up on Waste is the name of a new mobile app from Unilever that was launched recently to assist professional restaurant and catering kitchens to monitor and track their food waste.

Paper: Mediterranean diet vs low fat diet – implications for heart disease and stroke

Another study highlighting the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. This one reports on the findings of a randomised controlled trial finding that a Mediterranean diet high in fruit and vegetables, seafood, whole grains, mono-unsaturated fats and very low in meat and dairy delivers better health outcomes as regards prevention of cardiovascular heart disease and strokes than a low fat diet.

WWF report: Livewell for France, Spain and Sweden

The environmental organisation, WWF has published a new report entitled A balance of healthy and sustainable food choices for France, Spain and Sweden. It builds on the Livewell project undertaken in the UK which considers what a healthy acceptable and lower GHG diet might look like.