This book investigates the current and potential roles of food consumption to address sustainability challenges in China. It unpacks the complex foodscape in contemporary Chinese cities, from traditional wet markets to online deliveries, from supermarkets to farmers markets and alternative food providers, to understand the values and practices promoting and hindering sustainability in food consumption. 

Health journalist, Julia Belluz, and nutrition and metabolism scientist, Kevin Hall, discuss the myths about nutrition to deliver a comprehensive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.

This report presents an investigation into the discrimination and poor working conditions endured by many Ivorian and Senegalese crew members working on board European-owned tuna purse seine vessels operating in the Indian Ocean.

This report brings qualitative examples of food system transformation bought together from the experiences of a group of organisations working at the country level, often together, in close partnership with governments and local organisations. 

This report by Bite Back investigates the 10 biggest global food and drink businesses operating in the UK and looking at their sales of packaged food and drinks products. It found that the majority of the biggest food and drink manufacturers – 7 out of 10 — rely on selling unhealthy products in the UK.

This report by the FAO clarifies what a systems approach involves in practice across agrifood systems, explaining what a systems approach means in the context of agrifood systems, why it matters and how to adopt it with concrete case studies. 

This research synthesises evidence from 80 studies, highlighting how AMR emergence and spread within food systems is driven by a complex interplay of factors across human, animal, and environmental reservoirs (e.g., water, soil), with impacts for disease burden in humans, animals and crops and financial viability of farming. This review underscores the need for a One Health approach to AMR mitigation. 

This study finds substituting 10% of the protein intake from conventional meat sources with meat alternatives can lead to an average reduction of 3.4%, 10.7% and 4.5% in the required nitrogen fertilizer, manure and water footprint, respectively. This substitution could potentially decrease the risk of excess nitrate in groundwater by up to ~20%.

Researchers find that daily energy expenditures are greater in developed populations challenging the hypothesis that decreased physical activity contributes to rises in obesity with economic development, based on 4,213 adults from 34 populations across six continents and a wide range of lifestyles and economies. Instead, our results suggest that dietary intake plays a far greater role than reduced expenditure in the elevated prevalence of obesity associated with economic development.