A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, the Eat Lancet study in 2019, according to an investigation in the Guardian and DeSmog. 

Author Stuart Gillespie argues that the food system we once relied upon for global nutrition has now become the very thing making us sick. From its origins in colonial times, through the last few decades of neoliberalism, he claims the system now lies in the tight grip of a handful of powerful transnationals. 

This book is an update to the book about all aspects of food policy in the U.S. It covers policy changes since the 2018 Farm Bill, the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and President Trump’s approach to food and agricultural trade.  

This review highlights gaps between high-income countries' smallholder needs, existing policies and international policy advice with implications for policy, namely, that policymakers should collaborate with smallholders to develop simple, targeted policies and focus on strengthening rural communities.

This report by the Food Foundation explores the extent of food industry lobbying in the UK. It found that food businesses and their trade associations met with UK ministers 1,408 times, 40 times more than food NGOs. 

Researchers built a dataset providing the energy, nutritional and monetary cost of 20 food categories in France, and contrasted it with the environmental impacts. Legumes, potatoes and whole grains were less expensive and less impactful whereas meats were most impactful and expensive. Dairy and eggs had intermediate costs and impact. 

This study maps the U.S. agri-food distribution onto real-world highways, railways and waterways to quantify the trade-offs between cost, carbon emissions, and path redundancy across different transport modes. It finds that highways cost three times as much, produce 60 times more carbon and have the highest path redundancy relative to waterways. 

This study claims that U.S. grass-fed beef is not less carbon-intensive than industrial beef, even with maximal credit for carbon sequestration. It also argues grass-fed beef is also 3-40 times more carbon intensive than most plant and animal alternatives.

This book traces the European Common Agricultural Policy from its conception to the present day. It aims to understand how many of today’s problems have roots whose branches extend back in time, and to draw useful insights to help the European Union develop an ambitious agricultural and rural development policy.