This report by Feedback identifies industrial salmon farming’s biggest financial backers and exposes the role global financiers are playing in creating a food production system – salmon farming – that it argues is harming people’s food security, health and livelihoods, as well as extracting a huge toll on the environment.

This report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel explores strategies to boost Africa’s processing capacity and the challenges that currently hinder its growth and sustainability. It highlights successful case studies in Senegal, Kenya and Ghana. 

This paper analyses future images of young people in Finland to better understand how they assess future trajectories of food systems, and what they see as important in terms of sustainability. It found they questioned the continued growth narrative and technological transformation, consumer responsibility and local food systems as solutions to food system sustainability.  

This study explores why diverse, drought-resistant crop varieties like sorghum and fonio are disappearing in Senegal despite the advantages against climate challenges. It finds that this is due to government and international policies that interact with cultural and household factors. It recommends actions to improve the climate resilience of smallholders in West Africa.

This study estimates that West Africa catches 1.3 million tonnes of small pelagic fish but this is insufficient to feed a growing population with protein deficiencies. Authors explore the challenges in sustainable management of these crucial stocks, argue that current public policies are inefficient and identify recommendations for better governance. 

This study examines the different narratives of food security in sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from the “crisis narrative” pushed by aid agencies to “chronic poverty narrative”. It argues that certain framings of food security can lead to favouring certain understandings of problems and solutions. 

This report by the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds that ocean-based solutions could reduce the emissions gap by 35% to stay within 1.5 degrees by 2050. Eating low-carbon ocean food instead of meat could reduce emissions by up to 1.06 GT CO2e a year, roughly equivalent to taking 265 coal-fired power plants offline each year. 

Financial journalist Chloe Sorvino investigates the industrial meat industry, laying bare corporate greed, fundamental weaknesses in the sector, the limitations of local movements challenging the status quo and the false promise of lab-grown meat. 

Professor Jennifer Clapp investigates how a small handful of giant corporations have come to dominate the farm input sector, why it matters and what can be done about it. She explains how we got here, outlining the forces that enable this extreme concentration of power.