Authors Emily F. Gates and Pablo Vidueira critique the "fixed" approach of traditional program evaluation and policy analysis, and they advance an alternative approach centered on changing systems and developing the value of efforts toward change.

In this report, NGO Changing Markets Foundation investigates the scale of corporate capture at COP30 by the meat industry, shines a spotlight on the agricultural methane blind spot and unpacks how key climate policies are being weakened. 

The report by the European Commission presents two alternative scenarios based on distinct allocations of CAP funding; 'productivity and investment', and 'environment and climate'. The two scenarios show, that while policy measures can affect production and price dynamics, market fundamentals remain the main drivers of production outcomes. Yet, the report underscores the key structural trade-offs between intensification and extensification.

The FAO's state of agriculture 2025 report examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales and vulnerable populations. The report presents new findings on how cropland degradation contributes to the yield gap worldwide against a backdrop of broader degradation processes on other land cover types and even land abandonment.

This study explores the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices, across 138 countries. It found that participation in GAVCs is associated with a decrease in consumer food price levels but an increase in food price volatility and food price volatility is associated more strongly with downstream participation than with upstream participation.

This paper conducted a global analysis of market data from 54 countries and found that while sales in high-income countries were stagnating, leading firms maintained stable net profit margins and delivered relatively high shareholder returns, facilitated by financial strategies such as franchising and private equity ownership. U.S.-based corporations dominated the global market, with substantial expansion into countries outside the global North.

This paper tests a consumer-centric “nudge by proxy” approach, which indirectly encourages choices that mitigate or obviate external costs by addressing consumers’ internal motivations. It found the importance of addressing two illusions with future research: the “insufficiency illusion” whereby consumers falsely believe meat-free options to be lacking in a key area, and the “availability illusion,” when meat-free options are available but are genuinely lacking.

This study analyzed 118 life-cycle assessment (LCA) studies on GHG emissions of food production, considering LCA methods, life cycle phase, waste inclusion, and regional factors, including country, continent, and development status. It found only 22% of studies include waste, revealing up to 39% higher emissions in some categories compared to those excluding waste.

This discourse analysis of sustainable intensification and agroecology proponents found both claim to have the solution to agricultural sustainability but are largely inexplicit about their guiding assumptions and their own limitations, and rarely engage with research in the other discourse.