This report by the UK government reveal global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse. Without major intervention to reverse the current trend, this is highly likely to continue to 2050 and beyond.

This report examines how biodiversity narratives are represented within food system transformation literature and found that biodiversity is rarely a central theme in food system narratives; it is usually framed indirectly as biodiversity loss or as an instrumental environmental factor. 

A WWF report finds that cocoa cultivation, long associated with deforestation in West Africa, is now driving a dangerous new front of forest loss in some of the world’s most critical tropical ecosystems, including Liberia and the Congo Basin. 

This study tracked GHG emissions arising from croplands and found drained peatlands (35%), rice paddies (35%) and synthetic fertilizer (23%) as the primary contributors. Four crops—rice, maize, oil palm and wheat—accounted for 67% of total emissions. 

This study claims the role of small-scale farmers in national food consumption has been underestimated, particularly in high-income nations, where small farms account for about a third of consumption. By contrast, in regions where small-scale agriculture is widely practised (eg, West Asia, North Africa and East Africa), agricultural imports originate from countries dominated by large-scale farming.

This systematic review of precision agriculture reveals that some academics make claims about PA and sustainability without presenting adequate evidence. Of 444 English-language academic publications on PA and sustainability, it found 54 papers with field-trial or modeling evidence, and most evidence exists for variable rate technologies in grain farming. 

Dietary shifts, particularly reduced animal-sourced food (ASF) consumption in high-income countries, risk stranding substantial livestock farming related assets - worth €258 billion in the EU and UK and 78% of farming fixed assets. This study estimates that ASF reductions of 9.5%, 60% and 100% could strand 18%, 50% and 77% of these assets, respectively.

Agrobiodiversity underpins sustainable, nutritious food systems but this study found moderate to high species diversity often fails to translate into dietary and nutritional diversity across 906 districts in South India. Researchers suggest that these findings indicate substantial unrealized potential to align sustainability and nutrition in agricultural strategies. 

This presentation took part on 17 February 2026 in a hybrid format, with viewers online, in-person in Wageningen, and in-person in Oxford. Following this introduction to serious games, in-person and online participants played different serious games and took part in discussions about the games.Visit the Games at TABLE Library.Learn more about serious games.