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Read Essay EAT forum – an ambitious, interdisciplinary meeting focused on healthy and sustainable food systems and diets The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) participated in the recently organised EAT Forum in Stockholm. This initiative, founded by the Stordalen foundation in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre is intended to be a major annual event in which science, policy and business stakeholders from all over the world come together to help set goals and guidelines for a more sustainable and healthier food future. The very first EAT Forum kicked off on the 26-27 May 2014. The FCRN is one of the Forum’s strategic partners. Read Image Essay Why reduced beef, lamb and dairy consumption may be necessary for meeting stringent climate targets Read Image Publication What is a sustainable healthy diet? The paper begins by highlighting the rationale for focusing on the diets question, and then moves on to discuss definitions of ‘good nutrition’ on the one hand, and ‘sustainability’ on the other. Read Image Publication Changing to healthier & more sustainable diets: how can this be achieved? FCRN organised a workshop whose aim was to bring people together to develop a research agenda on how our eating practices might be shifted in healthier and more sustainable directions. Particular emphasis was placed on meat eating as an exemplar of an important, yet difficult aspect of our consumption practices, and one with a strong bearing on health and sustainability. Read Image Publication Appetite for Change: social, economic, and environmental transformations in China’s food system This report provides a detailed and integrative analysis of the dramatic changes in China’s food system over the last 35 years, and explores the linkages among the environmental, health, economic and cultural trends that are emerging. Read Image Publication Achieving food and environmental security: new approaches to close the gap This paper reviews one aspect of the food sustainability challenge: the goal of producing more food – a goal that is unthinkingly accepted by some and vigorously contested by others. The paper argues that increased food production is necessary but also emphasises that this alone, as a response to the challenge, is not sufficient. Read Publication Three perspectives on sustainable food security This paper describes these emerging perspectives (efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation) and explores their underlying values; highlights LCA’s role in shaping these perspectives; and considers how LCA could be oriented to clarify thinking and advance policy-relevant knowledge. It argues that more work is needed to understand the values underlying different approaches to the food sustainability problem. Read Publication PRESS RELEASE: Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies University of Oxford press release: A policy known as sustainable intensification could help meet the challenges of increasing demands for food from a growing global population, argues a team of scientists in an article in the journal Science. Read VIEW MORE
Image Publication Changing what we eat: A call for research & action on widespread adoption of sustainable healthy eating This report outlines the work needed to shift societies to consumption patterns that can meet both public health and environmental goals. Read
Essay EAT forum – an ambitious, interdisciplinary meeting focused on healthy and sustainable food systems and diets The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) participated in the recently organised EAT Forum in Stockholm. This initiative, founded by the Stordalen foundation in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre is intended to be a major annual event in which science, policy and business stakeholders from all over the world come together to help set goals and guidelines for a more sustainable and healthier food future. The very first EAT Forum kicked off on the 26-27 May 2014. The FCRN is one of the Forum’s strategic partners. Read
Image Essay Why reduced beef, lamb and dairy consumption may be necessary for meeting stringent climate targets Read
Image Publication What is a sustainable healthy diet? The paper begins by highlighting the rationale for focusing on the diets question, and then moves on to discuss definitions of ‘good nutrition’ on the one hand, and ‘sustainability’ on the other. Read
Image Publication Changing to healthier & more sustainable diets: how can this be achieved? FCRN organised a workshop whose aim was to bring people together to develop a research agenda on how our eating practices might be shifted in healthier and more sustainable directions. Particular emphasis was placed on meat eating as an exemplar of an important, yet difficult aspect of our consumption practices, and one with a strong bearing on health and sustainability. Read
Image Publication Appetite for Change: social, economic, and environmental transformations in China’s food system This report provides a detailed and integrative analysis of the dramatic changes in China’s food system over the last 35 years, and explores the linkages among the environmental, health, economic and cultural trends that are emerging. Read
Image Publication Achieving food and environmental security: new approaches to close the gap This paper reviews one aspect of the food sustainability challenge: the goal of producing more food – a goal that is unthinkingly accepted by some and vigorously contested by others. The paper argues that increased food production is necessary but also emphasises that this alone, as a response to the challenge, is not sufficient. Read
Publication Three perspectives on sustainable food security This paper describes these emerging perspectives (efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation) and explores their underlying values; highlights LCA’s role in shaping these perspectives; and considers how LCA could be oriented to clarify thinking and advance policy-relevant knowledge. It argues that more work is needed to understand the values underlying different approaches to the food sustainability problem. Read
Publication PRESS RELEASE: Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies University of Oxford press release: A policy known as sustainable intensification could help meet the challenges of increasing demands for food from a growing global population, argues a team of scientists in an article in the journal Science. Read
