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This article is written by James Hand, co-founder of Giki Social Enterprise. Before founding Giki in 2017, James spent 20 years in Asset Management, most recently as Co-CIO at Investec with experience in big data, behavioural finance, company research and ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing. Read Image Essay Soybeans, food insecurity and agroecology: multidisciplinary food sustainability in Bolivia This blog post is by Dr Johanna Jacobi, Senior Research Scientist in the Sustainability Governance Cluster at the University of Bern’s Centre for Development and Environment. Johanna Jacobi is a geographer and biologist who has been living and working in Bolivia for six years. She currently implements research in two projects, one about 'food sustainability' (the topic of this blog), and one about 'high-quality coffee and coffee cherry value chains in the origin countries Colombia and Bolivia'. She is interested in agroecology as a science, a set of practices and a social movement and is also a member of SOCLA (Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology). One key topic in her research activities has been agroforestry and its role in food security and the resilience of farming systems. Read Image Essay Plating up progress? A collaborative project to define usable metrics for assessing food industry progress in delivering sustainable and healthy diets. This blog post is written by Wil Nicholson. Read Image Essay A role for livestock in a sustainable food system This post is written by Hannah van Zanten, assistant professor at Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Her post is based on the paper ‘Defining a land boundary for sustainable animal consumption,’ which was published in Global Change Biology in May 2018. Read Image Explainer What is sustainable intensification? New approaches to agriculture are required if we are to reduce the environmental impacts of farming while also feeding more people with a sufficient quantity and diversity of nutritious and safe foods. This building block explains the concept of sustainable intensification. Last update: 18 June, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/075f639f Read Image Explainer What is malnutrition? People need to be able to obtain and utilise a healthy amount and balance of nutrients. Without this, they can suffer severe impacts to their health and well-being. This building block explains malnutrition and its causes, prevalence and consequences. Last update: 18 June, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/6a0223ed Read Image Explainer Food systems and contributions to other environmental problems Food systems interact with, and affect, the environment in a great many ways beyond their greenhouse gas emissions. In order to feed humans, the global food system occupies over a third of the earth’s land surface; extracts large amounts of fish and animals from natural habitats; makes huge claims on natural resources; and dispurses various pollutants into the environment. An appreciation of this wide range of environmental impacts is needed to understand why food systems are central to solving many of our biggest environmental problems, and ultimately to maintaining human well-being. Also useful, is to understand that the causes and solutions to these problems are often interconnected through food systems, resulting in trade-off situations where a course of action can at the same time, make one issue better and another worse. Read Image Essay Are modern plant-based diets and foods actually sustainable? In this piece, Helen Breewood introduces the environmental impact nuances behind trending vegan and flexitarian consumption patterns. Helen wrote this post in her personal capacity. Note that the FCRN has no financial affiliation with any of the brands mentioned in this blog.Helen Breewood is a research assistant at the FCRN. She is also a freelance writer and blogs about solving global sustainability issues at The Progress Motive. You can find her on Twitter. Read Image Explainer What is food security? Being able to reliably obtain, consume and metabolise sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious and foods, is essential to human well-being. This building block explains the meaning of the food security concept. Last update: 12 March, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/e49a6c96 Read VIEW MORE
Image Essay Simple but not simplistic: can product badges encourage more sustainable consumption? This article is written by James Hand, co-founder of Giki Social Enterprise. Before founding Giki in 2017, James spent 20 years in Asset Management, most recently as Co-CIO at Investec with experience in big data, behavioural finance, company research and ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing. Read
Image Essay Soybeans, food insecurity and agroecology: multidisciplinary food sustainability in Bolivia This blog post is by Dr Johanna Jacobi, Senior Research Scientist in the Sustainability Governance Cluster at the University of Bern’s Centre for Development and Environment. Johanna Jacobi is a geographer and biologist who has been living and working in Bolivia for six years. She currently implements research in two projects, one about 'food sustainability' (the topic of this blog), and one about 'high-quality coffee and coffee cherry value chains in the origin countries Colombia and Bolivia'. She is interested in agroecology as a science, a set of practices and a social movement and is also a member of SOCLA (Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology). One key topic in her research activities has been agroforestry and its role in food security and the resilience of farming systems. Read
Image Essay Plating up progress? A collaborative project to define usable metrics for assessing food industry progress in delivering sustainable and healthy diets. This blog post is written by Wil Nicholson. Read
Image Essay A role for livestock in a sustainable food system This post is written by Hannah van Zanten, assistant professor at Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Her post is based on the paper ‘Defining a land boundary for sustainable animal consumption,’ which was published in Global Change Biology in May 2018. Read
Image Explainer What is sustainable intensification? New approaches to agriculture are required if we are to reduce the environmental impacts of farming while also feeding more people with a sufficient quantity and diversity of nutritious and safe foods. This building block explains the concept of sustainable intensification. Last update: 18 June, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/075f639f Read
Image Explainer What is malnutrition? People need to be able to obtain and utilise a healthy amount and balance of nutrients. Without this, they can suffer severe impacts to their health and well-being. This building block explains malnutrition and its causes, prevalence and consequences. Last update: 18 June, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/6a0223ed Read
Image Explainer Food systems and contributions to other environmental problems Food systems interact with, and affect, the environment in a great many ways beyond their greenhouse gas emissions. In order to feed humans, the global food system occupies over a third of the earth’s land surface; extracts large amounts of fish and animals from natural habitats; makes huge claims on natural resources; and dispurses various pollutants into the environment. An appreciation of this wide range of environmental impacts is needed to understand why food systems are central to solving many of our biggest environmental problems, and ultimately to maintaining human well-being. Also useful, is to understand that the causes and solutions to these problems are often interconnected through food systems, resulting in trade-off situations where a course of action can at the same time, make one issue better and another worse. Read
Image Essay Are modern plant-based diets and foods actually sustainable? In this piece, Helen Breewood introduces the environmental impact nuances behind trending vegan and flexitarian consumption patterns. Helen wrote this post in her personal capacity. Note that the FCRN has no financial affiliation with any of the brands mentioned in this blog.Helen Breewood is a research assistant at the FCRN. She is also a freelance writer and blogs about solving global sustainability issues at The Progress Motive. You can find her on Twitter. Read
Image Explainer What is food security? Being able to reliably obtain, consume and metabolise sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious and foods, is essential to human well-being. This building block explains the meaning of the food security concept. Last update: 12 March, 2018 https://www.doi.org/10.56661/e49a6c96 Read
