This study examines how storytelling can change consumer perceptions toward unattractive food, such as fruit and vegetables. It finds that a combination of storytelling and marketing practices such as coupons significantly increases the consumption of unattractive food, and recommends that retailers employ such methods to reduce food waste. 

This study explores an innovative research method called the serious game, as a way to assess systemic solutions in the food sector. They propose it as a way to represent food systems and test real-world solutions to pressing concerns. 

This research finds the highest pressure on global cropland expansion is concentrated in tropical regions. Paradoxically, the study claims that conservation policies stopping expansion into forests and wetlands could substantially decrease emissions from land-use change but might have contrary effects on biodiversity. 

This study aims to understand why agroecology transitions are so fraught with challenges. The authors have identified five interrelating dimensions for analysing these transitions, arguing that they have been explored in research separately and to varying degrees. 

More than half of the experts on the UK government’s advisory panel on nutrition have links to the food industry, a BMJ analysis has found. At least 11 of the 17 members of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) have conflicts of interest with the likes of Nestlé, sugar manufacturer Tate and Lyle, and the world’s largest ice cream producer, Unilever.

This book argues that there is a need to transform risk-averse African smallholders into business-oriented producers who invest in producing surplus food for sale. The book focuses on the highlands of Africa – the east and central regions stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. 

CEO of the premium fruit and vegetable wholesaler, Natoora, Franco Fubini, argues flavour can lead us to a better food future. By looking to flavour, he claims we can unpick the industrialisation of our food production, restore nutrition and seasonal diversity to our plates and the craft of growing back to our landscapes.

This book follows the story of two brothers – Jose and Gilberto Flores – and how they pioneered the use of agave to regenerate farming land. The book places this breakthrough in the broader context of regenerative agriculture as a solution to the world’s many interlocking ecological crises.