The UAE has spent billions of dollars on African farmland, supposedly to address its food insecurity. Now, with Iran blocking food shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, the strategy’s limits are being revealed. 

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.

This study considers different scenarios of self sufficient production of multiple food groups and nutrients in 70 regions by 2050: a business-as-usual diet and a Planetary Health Diet. Results show that total trade could fall by 62% to 618 million tonnes in BAU-MinTrade and by 79% to 343 million tonnes in PHD-MinTrade. Many regions—including Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and China—could be almost self-sufficient under both scenarios.  

Food environments have substantial impacts on broader environmental sustainability. No comprehensive analysis of assessment tools that measure sustainability within education, health, recreation and retail. This scoping review aims to address this by identifying, analysing and summarising available tools, including outcomes measured and strengths/limitations of use.

In this study, images of living animals were placed alongside the corresponding meat-based dishes on a cafeteria menu at a British university. Analysis of 3674 meal sales revealed odds of selecting a vegetarian meal 22% higher during the intervention (vs. baseline) period. The present findings provide behavioral evidence that visual cues linking meat to its animal origins can influence real-world food choices. 

This study examines how these regenerative farming programs are designed and governed, and how they affect rural autonomy and legitimacy. It finds that the alignment between corporate timelines and the slower rhythms of ecological and social change determines whether regenerative transitions deliver real transformation or remain performative.

This paper argues efforts targeting high-yielding regions are also likely to fail to address food insecurity, and to exacerbate inequities instead. It outlines principles for biodiversity-friendly farming that account for smallholder realities and mediate trade-offs between production/livelihoods and conservation. 

This study found that crop rotations with three functional types produced more calories and macronutrients than cereal monocultures and cereal-only rotations with forage crops used to produce milk. The analysis shows no trade-off between functionally rich rotations and food production or agricultural land expansion.

This is a data library of subnational crop-specific irrigated and rainfed harvested area statistics, combined with global gridded land cover products to develop a global gridded (5-arcminute) irrigated and rainfed cropped area (MIRCA-OS) dataset for the years 2000 to 2015 for 23 crop classes. They give insights into the spatial patterns of irrigated and rainfed cropland change since the start of the century.