Image Resources Our extensive research library contains thousands of summaries of journal articles, reports and news stories that can be searched by keyword and category RESOURCES CATEGORYBooksBriefing paperEvent recordingFeatured articlesFeatured reportGameJournal articlesNews and resourcesReportsThink pieceVideoWorking paperWorkshop summary YEAR201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Image Reports Agriculture and conservation - IUCN This report by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identifies opportunities to reduce species loss by improving practices in corn, beans and coffee. It warns that conservation offers biodiversity gains but can also lead to agricultural intensification which drives biodiversity loss, a phenomenon known as the Jevons paradox. Read Image Reports Boosting biodiversity action through agroecology This report by a coalition of NGOs including the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, provides guidance and motivation to integrate agroecology and food systems into national biodiversity plans, being negotiated at COP16. Read Image Reports I-CAN report on biodiversity and nutrition synergies This report by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition finds that 62% of national biodiversity policies show no intentional connections between biodiversity and nutrition, despite deep interconnections and synergies between biodiversity, nutrition and food security. Read Image Reports Turning down the heat This report from Greenpeace finds that the meat and dairy industry would add 0.32 degrees of additional global warming from 2015 to 2050, with methane responsible for three quarters of this. Scientists predict that each 0.3°C warming we prevent by the end of the century could reduce exposure to extreme heat for 410 million people. Read Image Reports One quarter of crops threatened by water risks The World Resources Institute finds that one-quarter of the world’s crops are grown in areas where the water supply is highly stressed, highly unreliable or both. Mounting risks like climate change and increased competition for water are threatening water supplies and, in turn, food security. Read Image Journal articles I know I am ugly, but please listen to my story first 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. Read Image Journal articles A serious games methodology to test solutions for regional food systems inequities 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. Read Image Journal articles Effects of profit-driven cropland expansion and conservation policies 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. Read Image Journal articles The political economy of agroecological transitions: key analytical dimensions 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. Read VIEW MORE
Image Reports Agriculture and conservation - IUCN This report by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identifies opportunities to reduce species loss by improving practices in corn, beans and coffee. It warns that conservation offers biodiversity gains but can also lead to agricultural intensification which drives biodiversity loss, a phenomenon known as the Jevons paradox. Read
Image Reports Boosting biodiversity action through agroecology This report by a coalition of NGOs including the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, provides guidance and motivation to integrate agroecology and food systems into national biodiversity plans, being negotiated at COP16. Read
Image Reports I-CAN report on biodiversity and nutrition synergies This report by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition finds that 62% of national biodiversity policies show no intentional connections between biodiversity and nutrition, despite deep interconnections and synergies between biodiversity, nutrition and food security. Read
Image Reports Turning down the heat This report from Greenpeace finds that the meat and dairy industry would add 0.32 degrees of additional global warming from 2015 to 2050, with methane responsible for three quarters of this. Scientists predict that each 0.3°C warming we prevent by the end of the century could reduce exposure to extreme heat for 410 million people. Read
Image Reports One quarter of crops threatened by water risks The World Resources Institute finds that one-quarter of the world’s crops are grown in areas where the water supply is highly stressed, highly unreliable or both. Mounting risks like climate change and increased competition for water are threatening water supplies and, in turn, food security. Read
Image Journal articles I know I am ugly, but please listen to my story first 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. Read
Image Journal articles A serious games methodology to test solutions for regional food systems inequities 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. Read
Image Journal articles Effects of profit-driven cropland expansion and conservation policies 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. Read
Image Journal articles The political economy of agroecological transitions: key analytical dimensions 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. Read