In this piece, FCRN members Karin Östergren and Anne Normann comment on the trending behavioral patterns and consumer perspectives around SDG12.3, food loss and waste.Professor Karin Östergren is senior researcher at the Section for Sustainable Food Systems at RISE Agrifood and Bioscience and Adjunct Professor at Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition of Food Engineering, Lund University. For the past 17 years she has been project leader for a variety of projects focusing on exploring the benefits of combining her food process engineering expertise with environmental systems analysis. Research addressing resource efficiency and how to reduce food waste has been a focus in most of these projects. Recent projects are FUSIONS, where she was responsible for the work towards the harmonization of food waste monitoring methods and now she is also a part of the follow up project REFRESH.Anne Normann has MSc in Food Science with a background in clinical nutrition as a dietitian. She has been working at SIK/SP Food and Bioscience since 2012 as a project manager in sensory and consumer science. She mainly has been working with experimental research project in the field of consumer behavior, where the focus has been to increase the knowledge about why, how, when and where consumers make decisions about food choices and what could change that behavior. She started to work in the area of food waste in 2014 because of the Cosus project. She is now working in the department of Product & Perception at RISE Bioscience and Materials.

This is a reposting of a commentary on the report Grazed and Confused? written by the organisation Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit. We are reposting the piece with their permission; you can read it on their website here.

In this piece, Sue Dibb introduces opportunities for food policy change in the UK.FCRN member Sue Dibb is Executive Director of Eating Better, the UK civil society alliance of over 50 organisations working together to help people move towards eating less meat and dairy and more sustainable alternatives.

In this piece, Adrian Muller introduces a widening discourse on sustainable agriculture. Adrian Muller is an FCRN member and senior researcher at FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) and ETH Zurich.

This is a reposting of a commentary on the report Grazed and Confused? written by the organisation A greener world. We are reposting it here with their permission and if you want to read it on their website, just click here. A greener world "exist to promote and support real-life farming models to the public and to offer practical guidance on achieving truly sustainable livestock farming systems to farmers".

This is the initial response by the Sustainable Food Trust to the Grazed and Confused report published by the Food Climate Research Network​.

The commentary by the Sustainable Food Trust can be found here. Below is our response to it.  

In this piece, Dr. Tara Garnett introduces her full report, Grazed and Confused, on the controversy around beef consumption.Dr Tara Garnett is coordinator and lead researcher at the FCRN. It originally appeared in The Conversation on the 3rd October and is reposted here with permisssion. Tara’s work centres on the interactions among food, climate, health and broader sustainability issues and she has a particular interest in livestock as a sector where many of these converge. She is also interested in how knowledge is communicated to and interpreted by policy makers, civil society organisations and industry, and in the values that these different stakeholders bring to food problems and possible solutions.