In this piece, Mike Hamm reviews the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Report, focusing on nuances in sustainability.You can contact Mike using FCRN member messaging (just click Send this user a message on his profile) or email him directly at mhamm@msu.edu. You can also comment on this blog, provided you are an FCRN member and logged in. If you have forgotten your log in details, get in touch and we will assist you.

In this blog post, Hugh Coulson introduces the growing diversity in fishmeal and the implications of consumer perceptions.Hugh Coulson is an M.Sc. student at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling and has 12 years experience in the fine food industry, four years in fisheries and 3 years filming wildlife documentaries for the BBC.

In this piece, policy analyst Corinna Hawkes kicks off a new FCRN blog series that harnesses the expertise of the FCRN network to generate an in-depth, extended discussion on a particular theme.The focus of this first in the series is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – their strengths, weaknesses and the opportunities they raise.  The new Pass the Parcel series works like this: Corinna’s blog starts off the discussion with her take on the SDGs, and she ends her post with a question posed to another FCRN member, whose challenge will be to address it.  We will then publish this next blog post in a week or two’s time. Do let us know if you like the idea, and if you have particular themes or issues that you’d like to see discussed. For number two in this series, see SDGs: we missed a boat, but it is not too late to focus on Sustainable Food Systems by Emile Frison, Chair of the International Scientific Committee on Sustainable Food Systems of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and a Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). For number three in the series see Creating successful multi-stakeholder partnerships key to address the Global Goals – the experience of The Netherlands by Marcel Beukeboom who heads the Food & Nutrition Security cluster at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands and the fourth aand last one in the series is Metrics Matter by Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation.This post is written by FCRN member Corinna Hawkes –Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Group of the Global Nutrition Report and a member of the International panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.

In this piece, FCRN's communications and network development officer Marie Persson introduces a new regional forum. Thanks to Carlos Gonzales Fischer for input on forum topics and Sarah Najera for assistance with planning and execution of the forum .

Por Marie Persson. Gracias a Carlos Gonzalez Fischer por sus sugerencias sobre los temas a tratar (y esta traducción) y a Sarah Najera por su colaboración con el planeamiento y la ejecución del foro. Pueden leer (y difundir) el resumen en inglés también.

The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) participated in the recently organised EAT Forum in Stockholm. This initiative, founded by the Stordalen foundation in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre  is intended to be a major annual event in which science, policy and business stakeholders from all over the world come together to help set goals and guidelines for a more sustainable and healthier food future. The very first EAT Forum kicked off on the 26-27 May 2014. The FCRN is one of the Forum’s strategic partners.