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 Journal articles Earthworms contribute significantly to global food production Improving soil health and soil biological communities through agroecological management approaches will be essential for mitigating the environmental impacts of agricultural intensification in the future. In order to demonstrate some of the values of agroecological practices, this meta-analysis estimates the value of soil biological communities through the earthworms impact on the productivity of global cereal and legume crops. Read Image News and resources UN Raises Alarm About Food Supplies in Gaza The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has emphasised the need for unimpeded access to allow food supplies to reach affected populations in the Gaza strip. A representative from the WFP commented that "as the conflict intensifies, civilians, including vulnerable children and families, face mounting challenges in accessing essential food supplies”. Read Image News and resources New presidential advisory puts food at the heart of U.S. health policy The new American Heart Association Presidential Advisory board has recommended creating a robust evidence base for increasing the adoption of clinical Food is Medicine programs in the US. These programs recognise the importance of nutrition in preventative treatment of chronic disease and use healthy, food-based interventions to help prevent, manage, and treat chronic diet-related diseases. Read 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 VIEW MORE
Image Journal articles Earthworms contribute significantly to global food production Improving soil health and soil biological communities through agroecological management approaches will be essential for mitigating the environmental impacts of agricultural intensification in the future. In order to demonstrate some of the values of agroecological practices, this meta-analysis estimates the value of soil biological communities through the earthworms impact on the productivity of global cereal and legume crops. Read
Image News and resources UN Raises Alarm About Food Supplies in Gaza The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has emphasised the need for unimpeded access to allow food supplies to reach affected populations in the Gaza strip. A representative from the WFP commented that "as the conflict intensifies, civilians, including vulnerable children and families, face mounting challenges in accessing essential food supplies”. Read
Image News and resources New presidential advisory puts food at the heart of U.S. health policy The new American Heart Association Presidential Advisory board has recommended creating a robust evidence base for increasing the adoption of clinical Food is Medicine programs in the US. These programs recognise the importance of nutrition in preventative treatment of chronic disease and use healthy, food-based interventions to help prevent, manage, and treat chronic diet-related diseases. Read
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