This report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) calls for the strengthening of urban and peri-urban food systems amidst rapidly expanding urbanisation and rural transformation. It provides detailed and context specific policy recommendations to improve food security and nutrition and is guided by the principles of the right to food and the right to the city. 

The report by the WHO dives into the commercial determinants of noncommunicable diseases and offers guidance to policymakers to take action to curb the efforts of corporate actors pushing unhealthy products in the EU. Products like processed foods and alcohol contribute to millions of deaths each year. This report details the strategies commercial actors use to negatively influence NCD-related policies and how they could be stopped. 

This report by IPES-Food looks at the importance of supply chains and markets which are based on small-scale producers, processors and vendors rooted in territories and communities as components of building a resilient food system which delivers food security. It highlights the damage of the dominant corporate controlled global food supply chain and offers recommendations to support more localised territorial markets. 

This article explores alternative food networks in the EU and focuses on an emerging development of organisations shifting focus from the agri-food conditions in the Global South towards the Global North. The authors use several case studies to explore if these AFNs present a unique organisational model or if they lack significant differentiation from their Global South predecessors. 

This paper reviews non-agricultural food production methods, or ways of producing food that don’t rely on standard land, water and energy use. It provides detailed descriptions of these methods including “air protein” or protein derived using only CO2 and H2 from the air. It also explores the ethical and logistical considerations to advance these technologies to increase resilience to global catastrophes such as sun blocking volcanic winters.

Parity pricing, or setting a price floor comparatively equal to an historical period of fair compensation for agricultural commodities, has been debated by scholars as a solution to continually falling farm gate prices in the US. This paper explores the validity of this claim and offers a critique that parity pricing is no silver bullet. Low farm gate prices are rooted in complex and long standing injustices and if farmers are to achieve fair living wages, multi-pronged efforts across scales of governance will be required.

US banana giant, Chiquita Brands International must pay $38 million dollars to the families of eight Colombians murdered by a paramilitary death squad financed by the brand from 1997 to 2004, a court in Florida has found. It’s the first case of a US company held accountable for violations in another country and could inspire others to fight for corporate accountability.

Seaweed is an overlooked, but highly versatile climate solution, says Forbes in its coverage of a new study by investors. The article highlights the numerous co-benefits of seaweed; it’s a low-carbon food crop that requires few inputs, it has the potential to replace fossil fuel-derived plastics, and, the article even touts the crop as “the largest carbon sinks in the world”, although research disputes this claim.