This study reviews Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) on reusable food packaging and critically assesses the quality of the LCA methodology. It provides a framework for good practice for more clarity and consistency in LCAs comparing reusable vs single-use packaging. 

Authors developed a model that identified food combinations for environmental and nutritional goals. Using US-specific data of 2,500 food items, various diets offer 700 minutes of healthy life gained per week while reducing climate impacts by a factor of seven. 

This study argues that there is a tension between food systems transition thinking and inclusive participation. This tension plays out differently in different dynamics of food systems transitions. They propose the most meaningful form of inclusive citizen participation differs for each dynamic. 

Food systems in South Asia are productive but their dynamics are not well understood for sustainable healthy diets. This study identifies priorities to work towards these goals such as intra-household dynamics and behaviours, adolescent food choice, and market and food acquisition linkages. 

Africa is on the rise and by 2050, the continent will be home to a quarter of the world’s population. This book address a wide range of topics including climate change, water security, farm sizes, crop yields, conservation trade-offs, food prices, trade, conflict and structural change. The book concludes by discussing key pathways to improve Africa's food system and food security for the decades ahead.

The Sierra Leone government has raised over $600 million to become more food self-sufficient, with rice the main target but currently relies on expensive imports. The government aims to boost production by investing in infrastructure and creating large-scale irrigation. NGOs and farmers argue this will promote agribusiness rather than supporting smallholders.

After decades of mono-cropping and overgrazing, around 65% of Africa’s farmland is now considered unproductive or degraded, leaving more than 270 million people facing chronic hunger. But while there is general agreement that food security is a priority for Africa, how to achieve it is a far more polarised debate. 

Author David Gilbert describes the story of Indonesian farming workers occupying the agribusiness plantation near their home, and how this movement led to its reclaiming of their land, and subsequent flourishing of diversified farming. It shows how emancipatory and ecologically attuned ways of living with land are possible.

Historian Jori Lewis follows the story of peanuts in colonial Senegal in the 1800s, and how the French cosmetic industry used peanut oil as a cheaper alternative to olive oil. She argues that peanut cultivation in Senegal was a proxy for slavery, which had been recently banned in France and its colonies.