This article uses a mixed methods approach to evaluate food system interventions which aim to raise consumption of nutritious foods. The researchers assess the Marketplace for Nutritious Foods (MNF) project which was implemented by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in Kenya. The project is used as a case study to open up a broader discussion on the impact of complex food system interventions and the methods used to evaluate these interventions. The author's main call is for an expansion of methods used for similar interventions, methods which build from food systems approaches. They also call for exploration of new methodological approaches from outside traditional economic and nutrition studies

This article examines the scholarly literature in English and Spanish to outline a series of insights related to the development and evolution of the term food system transformation. The authors find a rising use of the term in the literature but note a lack of coherent and consistent definition and an underpinning theoretical framework of change. The authors warn against the possible loss of the term’s meaning as it becomes increasingly popular and used without specific intention. The authors seek to provide insights into the complex and overlapping body of literature and offer a unique definition which attempts to fill gaps identified through the review process.

There has been much media spotlight on the World Bank’s entry into the meat debate with its new report calling on governments in wealthier countries to shift subsidies from high-emitting red meat and dairy to lower-emitting poultry, vegetables and fruits. POLITICO said the report was bound to make conservatives apoplectic, while Climate Home News analysed why the meat has become a “political hot potato”. TABLE’s explainer, Meat, metrics and mindset, and the podcast Meat: The Four Futures explores the meat debate and why it’s about more than science, it’s about emotions.

This book by Access Agriculture, a non-profit organisation supporting agroecology and organic farming supported by the European Commission and the FAO, details youth engagement in agriculture as a critical area in Africa and India. The book provides an introduction of the importance of young entrepreneurs in agriculture and follows with a substantial number of case studies and stories from young entrepreneurs from many African nations and Indian states. 

This book offers an introduction to food studies, a multidisciplinary field concerned with animal welfare, the impact of climate change on food production, the nutrition of various food items, and fair, equitable and just working conditions for food labourers and workers. The book is a collection of essays from faculty members and graduates of the NYU Food Studies program

This book introduces the concept of the more-than-human to students and postgraduates engaged in geography and social science theory. The text offers valuable case studies which illustrate the implications of the more-than-human development and what future issues still need to be addressed.

This report by NGOs Sustain and Friends of the Earth calculates the quantities of manure that 10 UK livestock corporations produce – estimated at more than the 10 of the UK’s cities combined and how this directly contributes to the ecological decline of rivers. The report argues intensive agriculture is the main source of river pollution in the UK, not water companies, but reveals that only half of the ten agribusinesses mentioned have publicly available strategies to prevent pollution, and most lack detail and targets. 

Smallholder farmers, pastoralists and indigenous people face unprecedented threats to their land, according to a new report by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES FOOD). The report explores the different drivers of land grabbing such as the fight for water and actors such as carbon off-setters and reveals that 1% of farms account for 70% of global farmland.

This article collection details several case studies related to assessing the barriers and opportunities for a sustainable food system transformation. This, for the authors, means an increased consumption of plant-based foods and lower levels of meat and dairy consumption, especially in the global North. The collection seeks to challenge incumbent actors and structures which the authors claim resist the critical transformative changes required whilst fostering new values, norms, and paradigms that could contribute to the societal change necessary for food system transformation. The case studies cover topics such as the polarisation of the animal-free and animal-centric food system narratives, new and alternative protein industries, different socioeconomic systems of agriculture and unique perspectives on human-animal relationships.