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 Resource Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons: Challenges in International Law and Governance This new book addresses how the collective pooling and management of shared plant genetic resources for food and agriculture can be supported through laws regulating access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits arising from their use. Read Resource Carbon footprint of the Australian dairy industry A lifecycle assessment study, carried out by PE International, measured the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from the production of a number of dairy products in Australia to identify the industry’s overall carbon footprint. An industry cross section of primary data has been analysed from 140 farms across Australia. Read Resource UK “Responsibility Deal” failing The UK consumer group Which? has released a report, “A taste for change,” which questions the effectiveness of voluntary industry-led initiatives such as the Responsibility Deal. Read Resource Climate Counts Scorecard Climate Counts is a non-profit organization that rates the world’s largest companies (by sales) on their actions to address climate change against a 22-criteria scoring methodology. Their Climate Counts scorecard offers consumers a tool for making informed purchasing and investing decisions based on how well major name brands are addressing climate change. Read Resource Food Pricing Strategies, Population Diets, and Non-Communicable Disease: A Systematic Review of Simulation Studies In this systematic review published in the journal PLOS Medicine, researchers investigated the association between food pricing strategies and food consumption and non-communicable diseases by analyzing the results of published mathematical modeling studies of food pricing interventions. Read Image Resource Poorer quality wheat when carbon dioxide levels in the air rise Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have published a study in the journal Global Change Biology claiming that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have a negative impact on the protein content of wheat grain and thus its nutritional quality. Read Image Resource Animal Husbandry Regained: The Place of Farm Animals in Sustainable Agriculture A new book by John Webster, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol, seeks to identify and explain the causes and contributors to current problems in animal husbandry, especially those related to 'factory farming', and advance arguments that may contribute to its successful re-orientation. Read Image Resource Transfrontier Conservation Areas: People living on the Edge Read Image Resource Diet-Climate Connection radio project The "Humankind" series on National Public Radio has produced a series of stories about the interrelatedness of the foods we eat and climate change. Read VIEW MORE
Image Resource Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons: Challenges in International Law and Governance This new book addresses how the collective pooling and management of shared plant genetic resources for food and agriculture can be supported through laws regulating access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits arising from their use. Read
Resource Carbon footprint of the Australian dairy industry A lifecycle assessment study, carried out by PE International, measured the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from the production of a number of dairy products in Australia to identify the industry’s overall carbon footprint. An industry cross section of primary data has been analysed from 140 farms across Australia. Read
Resource UK “Responsibility Deal” failing The UK consumer group Which? has released a report, “A taste for change,” which questions the effectiveness of voluntary industry-led initiatives such as the Responsibility Deal. Read
Resource Climate Counts Scorecard Climate Counts is a non-profit organization that rates the world’s largest companies (by sales) on their actions to address climate change against a 22-criteria scoring methodology. Their Climate Counts scorecard offers consumers a tool for making informed purchasing and investing decisions based on how well major name brands are addressing climate change. Read
Resource Food Pricing Strategies, Population Diets, and Non-Communicable Disease: A Systematic Review of Simulation Studies In this systematic review published in the journal PLOS Medicine, researchers investigated the association between food pricing strategies and food consumption and non-communicable diseases by analyzing the results of published mathematical modeling studies of food pricing interventions. Read
Image Resource Poorer quality wheat when carbon dioxide levels in the air rise Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have published a study in the journal Global Change Biology claiming that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have a negative impact on the protein content of wheat grain and thus its nutritional quality. Read
Image Resource Animal Husbandry Regained: The Place of Farm Animals in Sustainable Agriculture A new book by John Webster, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol, seeks to identify and explain the causes and contributors to current problems in animal husbandry, especially those related to 'factory farming', and advance arguments that may contribute to its successful re-orientation. Read
Image Resource Diet-Climate Connection radio project The "Humankind" series on National Public Radio has produced a series of stories about the interrelatedness of the foods we eat and climate change. Read
