Pretty et al (2010). The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 8(4) 219-236, doi:10.3763/ijas.2010.0534

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), a coalition of beverage industry companies and supporting partners, has launched its Beverage Industry Sector Guidance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting (Sector Guidance), Version 2.0.

The Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation on Food Producton in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia, by Mahmud Yesuf, Salvatore Di Falco, Claudia Ringler, and Gunnar Kohlin. IFPRI, the International Food Policy Research Institute, has published a paper presenting an an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in Ethiopia, a typical low-income developing country.

The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institution of Chemical Engineers have published a new report called The Vital Ingredient – chemical science and engineering for sustainable food. The report describes meeting energy and food demand despite declining fossil fuel resources – without permanently damaging the environment – as the greatest technological challenge facing humanity.

This book by Julia Wright, published by Earthscan in 2009 considers Cuba's food crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc. When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis.

In 2009, the Technology Strategy Board announced plans to establish a Sustainable Agriculture and Food Innovation Platform to bring together government, business and researchers to focus on the development and adoption of new technologies to increase sustainable food productivity, while decreasing environmental impact.

The Royal Society has published a report that argues the need for a 'sustainable intensification' of global agriculture in which yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land. It states that the Research Councils UK(RCUK) should develop a cross-council "grand challenge" on global food crop security as a priority. This needs to secure at least approximately £2 billion over 10 years to make a substantial difference.