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Five moves forward for food systems

Stephanie Walton, researcher at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, writes in her blog, the Food Ledger, about the five things to keep things moving forward on food systems to not grow despondent or stagnant. So as to remain clear-eyed about challenges but don't succumb to a victim complex or ennui.

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Food, Land, and Money

This report by Friends of the Earth follows the money to reveal who benefits most and why so much investment continues to support a model that is harming people and the planet. It also looks at what could happen if more resources were directed to those who already nourish much of the world.

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Journal articles

Food systems performance evaluated against targets and benchmarks reveals urgent gaps and a path to 2050

This study show that current progress is insufficient to meet 2030 targets and benchmarks at global level on food systems transformation, building on the Food Systems Countdown Initiative framework. Achieving most targets and benchmarks by 2050 is possible if countries correct course and accelerate progress, but certain indicators will require considerable investment and intervention.

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Dangerous Distractions: How agribusiness narratives continue to undermine climate action

This briefing by Changing Markets argues agribusiness are pushing narratives that are being used to prevent the inclusion of food systems on the climate agenda at COP30. It highlights arguments and key messages pushed by meat and dairy industry representatives and allies at both the World Meat Congress, a biennial industry event which last year was held in Brazil just before COP30, and at COP30 itself.

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The meat agenda: Agricultural exceptionalism and greenwash in Brazil

In this report, NGO Changing Markets Foundation investigates the scale of corporate capture at COP30 by the meat industry, shines a spotlight on the agricultural methane blind spot and unpacks how key climate policies are being weakened.

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Journal articles

Increasing inequality in agri-food value chains: global trends from 1995-2020

This analysis finds that global agricultural production for food and industrial inputs has increasingly shifted to the global South, global food-system income is increasingly captured by post-farm activities in the global North, and a substantial share of food-system income is captured in low-tax jurisdictions with low agricultural production.

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¿Desigualdad en disputa? Reflexiones sobre las expresiones de la desigualdad en el sistema alimentario de Colombia

En Colombia, como en muchos países de América Latina, la desigualdad es una característica intrínseca del desarrollo, que se manifiesta en todos los aspectos de la vida de las personas. Sin embargo, no ha sido un aspecto ampliamente explorado en las discusiones sobre el sistema alimentario. Desde MESA Colombia venimos trabajando en 2025 sobre algunas preguntas alrededor de dimensiones y expresiones de la desigualdad en los sistemas alimentarios de Colombia. Este ensayo busca generar reflexiones sobre estas preguntas y sobre la necesidad de profundizar el diálogo alrededor de los acuerdos o desacuerdos que estas generen.

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Top 10 agribusiness giants in 2025

This report by Grain examines the state of corporate concentration in six sectors critical to agriculture: commercial seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals and livestock genetics.

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UK government food strategy

This strategy by the UK government sets out the problems facing the UK's food system, and how it will create a healthier, more affordable, sustainable, resilient system.