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. 

Global efforts to curb deforestation appropriately focus on cattle meat, oil palm, rubber, soya, cocoa and coffee, but this study finds global monitoring efforts have largely overlooked staple crops such as rice, maize and cassava.

A new report by IPES Food finds that powerful new alliance between Big Tech corporations (including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alibaba) and Big Ag firms is rapidly gaining control of farming under the guise of innovation. It argues corporate-led digitalization of agriculture is failing to deliver ecological resilience, equity, or sustainability.

This report finds semi-personalised information to consumers is the most effective way to encourage behaviour shifts. Explaining co-benefits to the individual and the environment can make the behaviour easier and more appealing, increasing its likelihood.

This dashboard provides estimates of global environmental impacts and risks driven by consumption and production activities. It links the production of over 160 agricultural commodities across 240 producer countries / territories ‘embedded’ within domestic and international supply chains to selected environmental impacts and risks.

This report by the UK government reveal global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse. Without major intervention to reverse the current trend, this is highly likely to continue to 2050 and beyond.

This report examines how biodiversity narratives are represented within food system transformation literature and found that biodiversity is rarely a central theme in food system narratives; it is usually framed indirectly as biodiversity loss or as an instrumental environmental factor.