This report by IPES-Food finds that food systems now consume 40% of all petrochemicals and 15% of fossil fuels globally – making them a key growth frontier for Big Oil. Yet food remains glaringly absent from the climate conversation.

This report by Grain examines the state of corporate concentration in six sectors critical to agriculture: commercial seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals and livestock genetics.

This strategy by the UK government sets out the problems facing the UK's food system, and how it will create a healthier, more affordable, sustainable, resilient system. 

Using data of six staple crops over 12,658 locations, this study estimates that global food production will decline by 120 calories per person per day per 1 °C rise in global temperature. Even with adaptation and rising incomes, only a third of those losses may be avoided by 2100. While low-income regions are hit hard, the biggest losses are in today’s breadbaskets.

This research argues that yields need to nearly triple in sub-Sahara Africa to become cereal self-sufficient accounting for population growth, and will require at least 3 times the amount of nitrogen fertilizer application. 

This research provides insights into whole-of-food system governance to resolve competing interests, policy incoherence and power asymmetries with systems thinking and considering who should govern food systems. 

This research review argues that serious interactive games showed potential in transforming mindsets of a niche group of food system actors. 

This study investigated the relational values – relationships between human and nature – in regenerative agriculture and how cultivating these can inspire mindset shifts that support agricultural transformations. 

Gaia Explorers is a collaborative serious board game for 4 to 8 players, designed for a 30-minute session by Federico Andreotti and illustrated by Iván McGill. Players explore future scenarios while navigating the challenges of living within planetary boundaries. Inspired by Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis and Post- Growth principles, the game challenges players to balance food production, biodiversity conservation, and emissions reduction on a newly discovered planet. The game’s mechanics draw on the EAT-Lancet guidelines and Planetary Boundaries framework to model sustainability dynamics (Richardson et al. 2023). Through individual and collective strategies, participants tackle key issues such as sustainable food production and consumption, greenhouse gas reduction, land use, and biodiversity conservation.