A regenerative scheme in Senegal has shown early promise, with herders hopeful it can restore degraded pastures. 

This open access book examines how food systems reforms can support efforts to achieve SDG 12, responsible consumption and production, by reducing food loss and waste in support of sustainable, safe, and nutritious diets in countries at different points of structural transformation. 

Authors Emily F. Gates and Pablo Vidueira critique the "fixed" approach of traditional program evaluation and policy analysis, and they advance an alternative approach centered on changing systems and developing the value of efforts toward change.

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. 

The report by the European Commission presents two alternative scenarios based on distinct allocations of CAP funding; 'productivity and investment', and 'environment and climate'. The two scenarios show, that while policy measures can affect production and price dynamics, market fundamentals remain the main drivers of production outcomes. Yet, the report underscores the key structural trade-offs between intensification and extensification.

The FAO's state of agriculture 2025 report examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales and vulnerable populations. The report presents new findings on how cropland degradation contributes to the yield gap worldwide against a backdrop of broader degradation processes on other land cover types and even land abandonment.

This study explores the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices, across 138 countries. It found that participation in GAVCs is associated with a decrease in consumer food price levels but an increase in food price volatility and food price volatility is associated more strongly with downstream participation than with upstream participation.

This paper conducted a global analysis of market data from 54 countries and found that while sales in high-income countries were stagnating, leading firms maintained stable net profit margins and delivered relatively high shareholder returns, facilitated by financial strategies such as franchising and private equity ownership. U.S.-based corporations dominated the global market, with substantial expansion into countries outside the global North.

This paper tests a consumer-centric “nudge by proxy” approach, which indirectly encourages choices that mitigate or obviate external costs by addressing consumers’ internal motivations. It found the importance of addressing two illusions with future research: the “insufficiency illusion” whereby consumers falsely believe meat-free options to be lacking in a key area, and the “availability illusion,” when meat-free options are available but are genuinely lacking.