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 Books No Meat Required No Meat Required chronicles the history of vegan politics and practise in the United States and asks whether the original political motivations of the movement have been lost to corporate commodification. The book follows veganism from its roots in the hippy movement, its revival with growing concerns over the climate emergency and its integration into contemporary supermarket retailing, fine dining and junk food products. Read Image Books The Future of Nutrition The Future of Nutrition analyses the history of our relationship to food and explores how the contemporary reductionist paradigm of nutrition and health science is limiting our ability to respond to public health crises. Campbell offers an alternative model based on a holistic understanding of health and nutrition, that he argues can improve public nutrition literacy and treat personal illness more effectively and economically Read Image Books Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health This volume provides case studies of actions to promote climate change resilience in the global food system. The cases are selected across a wide range of regions and cover a broad range sustainable food system issues, including food security, food sovereignty, public health and justice. Read Image Reports So, what do we really want from food? In the UK, there is a pervasive narrative that people don't want a ‘nanny state’ intervening in the food system, they only want ‘cheap food’. This report, based on extensive public dialogue sessions in Birmingham and Cambridge, and a new national poll of 2,000 people, shows that citizens across all demographics, ages and political groups reject these concerns and overwhelmingly back increasing government intervention to fix the food system. Read Image Reports Empty Promises: Cargill, Soy, Banks and the destruction of Bolivia’s Chiquitano Forest A new report reveals that the food giant Cargill is systematically failing on commitments to a deforestation-free soy supply chain in the near future. Since 2017, Cargill has directly purchased soy from farms that have razed 20,000 hectares of forest in Bolivia. The company's plans for sourcing future soy supplies also put over three million hectares of forest at risk of deforestation. Read Image Reports It's time to act on processed meat Processed meat currently makes up around 30% of average meat intake in the UK. This report outlines the negative effects that processed meat consumption has on both human and environmental health. It then sets out a series of policy recommendations for minimising its consumption Read Image Journal articles Feeding climate and biodiversity goals with novel plant-based meat and milk alternatives This paper is the first system-wide assessment of the effects of substituting animal based products with novel plant based alternatives on a range of food system concerns . The paper analyses four substitution scenarios (corresponding to 10%, 25%, 50% and 90% incremental substitution from 2020 to 2050) and determines the net results for food system outcomes including food availability, undernourishment levels, crop use and food prices, and environmental outcomes including land use change, emissions reduction, biodiversity intactness and nitrogen input. Read Image Journal articles Model-based scenarios for achieving net negative emissions in the food system This article explores the feasibility of achieving net negative emissions (which occurs when more greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere than are emitted) by 2050 through global food system transformation. Specifically, the authors assessed how various approaches to food system transformation may lead to reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and possibly increased carbon dioxide removal. Read Image Journal articles Higher food prices can reduce poverty and stimulate growth in food production This paper explores the impact of recent spikes in food prices on poverty in lower-middle income countries (LMICs). It is often claimed that food price increases negatively affect the poor because they already spend a higher proportion of their total income on food. However, this paper takes into account the stimulation of great food production from higher prices and the effect this has on poverty. Read VIEW MORE
Image Books No Meat Required No Meat Required chronicles the history of vegan politics and practise in the United States and asks whether the original political motivations of the movement have been lost to corporate commodification. The book follows veganism from its roots in the hippy movement, its revival with growing concerns over the climate emergency and its integration into contemporary supermarket retailing, fine dining and junk food products. Read
Image Books The Future of Nutrition The Future of Nutrition analyses the history of our relationship to food and explores how the contemporary reductionist paradigm of nutrition and health science is limiting our ability to respond to public health crises. Campbell offers an alternative model based on a holistic understanding of health and nutrition, that he argues can improve public nutrition literacy and treat personal illness more effectively and economically Read
Image Books Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health This volume provides case studies of actions to promote climate change resilience in the global food system. The cases are selected across a wide range of regions and cover a broad range sustainable food system issues, including food security, food sovereignty, public health and justice. Read
Image Reports So, what do we really want from food? In the UK, there is a pervasive narrative that people don't want a ‘nanny state’ intervening in the food system, they only want ‘cheap food’. This report, based on extensive public dialogue sessions in Birmingham and Cambridge, and a new national poll of 2,000 people, shows that citizens across all demographics, ages and political groups reject these concerns and overwhelmingly back increasing government intervention to fix the food system. Read
Image Reports Empty Promises: Cargill, Soy, Banks and the destruction of Bolivia’s Chiquitano Forest A new report reveals that the food giant Cargill is systematically failing on commitments to a deforestation-free soy supply chain in the near future. Since 2017, Cargill has directly purchased soy from farms that have razed 20,000 hectares of forest in Bolivia. The company's plans for sourcing future soy supplies also put over three million hectares of forest at risk of deforestation. Read
Image Reports It's time to act on processed meat Processed meat currently makes up around 30% of average meat intake in the UK. This report outlines the negative effects that processed meat consumption has on both human and environmental health. It then sets out a series of policy recommendations for minimising its consumption Read
Image Journal articles Feeding climate and biodiversity goals with novel plant-based meat and milk alternatives This paper is the first system-wide assessment of the effects of substituting animal based products with novel plant based alternatives on a range of food system concerns . The paper analyses four substitution scenarios (corresponding to 10%, 25%, 50% and 90% incremental substitution from 2020 to 2050) and determines the net results for food system outcomes including food availability, undernourishment levels, crop use and food prices, and environmental outcomes including land use change, emissions reduction, biodiversity intactness and nitrogen input. Read
Image Journal articles Model-based scenarios for achieving net negative emissions in the food system This article explores the feasibility of achieving net negative emissions (which occurs when more greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere than are emitted) by 2050 through global food system transformation. Specifically, the authors assessed how various approaches to food system transformation may lead to reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and possibly increased carbon dioxide removal. Read
Image Journal articles Higher food prices can reduce poverty and stimulate growth in food production This paper explores the impact of recent spikes in food prices on poverty in lower-middle income countries (LMICs). It is often claimed that food price increases negatively affect the poor because they already spend a higher proportion of their total income on food. However, this paper takes into account the stimulation of great food production from higher prices and the effect this has on poverty. Read