Sustainable food security | TableDebates

Food Production and Nature Conservation: Conflicts and Solutions

This book considers the main links between global conservation of the environment and food production.

Sustainability Challenges in the Agrofood Sector

This new 712 page book in 28 chapters is edited by Rajeev Bhat. It addresses a very wide range of topics on agriculture, food and sustainability.

Shaping the Future of Global Food Systems: A Scenarios Analysis

This World Economic Forum report explores four alternate visions of the world and its food systems in 2030. The key predictable forces of change are used as a base and the critical uncertainties of ‘Demand Shift’ and ‘Market Connectivity’ are used as axes to derive the four scenarios.

Workshop report with practical advice for food activists

Hivos, Slow Food Youth Network and Food Hub have published a guide with practical tips for “changemakers” in the area of food sustainability.

Report with new evidence for existence of environmental tipping points

The Global Food Security (GFS) programme in the UK has published a report providing evidence for the existence of environmental tipping points and exploring potential consequences for global food security.

FCRN members write on food security, food systems, and environmental change

This new article published in Solutions, whose authorship includes several FCRN members, briefly outlines current food system issues. The work is based on discussions in the session ‘Sustainable nutrient management in the Anthropocene’ at the IARU Sustainability Science Congress 2014.

Sahara Forest Project uses seawater and sunlight to produce drinking water and food

An engineering project aims to produce food, energy and fresh water from solar power and seawater by using a new combination of already established technologies. The Sahara Forest Project is run in desert areas of Qatar, Tunisia and Jordan.

Photo credit: Gideon, Flickr, Creative Commons License 2.0

Fish to fork: a need to implement changes in the EU food system

The European Environment Agency has published a report on food systems approaches for the seafood industry in Europe, with the explicit aim of making ‘a first contribution to the collective endeavour of rethinking Europe's food system for sustainability goals’.

Photo credit: Chris Booth, Flickr, Creative Commons License 2.0

Seaweed aquaculture for food security, income generation and environmental health in Tropical Developing Countries

The World Bank has released a short working paper arguing that the expansion of seaweed farming in tropical developing countries could have large positive impacts on local poverty, ecosystem management and climate change mitigation. The report goes through different benefits and uses of seaweed production and briefly discusses current and potential markets for the crop.