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Global market trends and financial performance of the corporate fast-food industry and their potential contributions to diets high in meat and ultra-processed foods

Journal articles

This paper conducted a global analysis of market data from 54 countries and found that while sales in high-income countries were stagnating, leading firms maintained stable net profit margins and delivered relatively high shareholder returns, facilitated by financial strategies such as franchising and private equity ownership. U.S.-based corporations dominated the global market, with substantial expansion into countries outside the global North.

Chief Program Officer, Center for Good Food Purchasing, US

The Chief Program Officer (CPO) is a member of the senior leadership team and has a seat at the table to shape the strategic direction, priorities, and growth of the Center. The CPO leads programmatic vision, oversees the development and execution of our core work (i.e., supporting institutional adoption and implementation of the Good Food Purchasing Program), and ensures that the Center’s programs remain high-impact, responsive to partners, and aligned with our organizational values and equity commitments.The CPO oversees the Program Team, which serves as the primary liaison with institutional participants (e.g., municipal agencies, school districts, hospitals), co-developing short- and long-term implementation strategies informed by data to improve their Program performance, and identifying opportunities for collective action regionally and nationally. The Program team works in close coordination with our Ecosystem Engagement, Policy, Communications, Development, and Core Mission Support teams to empower institutional leaders and community partners to build just, sustainable food systems, using procurement as a lever for change.This is a remote role that requires occasional domestic travel. The Center for Good Food Purchasing is based in the Bay Area of California.Success in This Role Looks Like (within the first 12-18 months):Core program strategies (institutional support, verification, data analytics, technical assistance, partnerships) are integrated under a unified operating model that is innovative and responsive to evolving food system challenges and opportunities.Participating institutions show measurable improvement in their alignment with the Good Food Purchasing values (e.g., increasing purchases in local economies, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, animal welfare, nutrition) and consistently meet or exceed their performance targets.Develop and launch a learning agenda and dashboard that turns data into decisions and concrete program changes. The Program Team will publish at least two external pieces (e.g., briefs, webinars, or conference sessions) to share learnings with the field.Program team members are supported in their day-to-day work and professional growth, receive regular coaching and professional development, understand how their individual roles and team contribute to our organizational goals and mission, and have the conditions they need to thrive in their roles.The Center expands its reach and influence — engaging with more cities/institutions, deepening our network of partners, and elevating the Center’s visibility and thought leadership in values-based procurement and equitable food systems.

Global agricultural value chains and food prices

Journal articles

This study explores the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices, across 138 countries. It found that participation in GAVCs is associated with a decrease in consumer food price levels but an increase in food price volatility and food price volatility is associated more strongly with downstream participation than with upstream participation.

FAO's state of food and agriculture 2025

The FAO's state of agriculture 2025 report examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales and vulnerable populations. The report presents new findings on how cropland degradation contributes to the yield gap worldwide against a backdrop of broader degradation processes on other land cover types and even land abandonment.

EU agriculture 2040: no easy fix for environmental and socio-economic aspects

The report by the European Commission presents two alternative scenarios based on distinct allocations of CAP funding; 'productivity and investment', and 'environment and climate'. The two scenarios show, that while policy measures can affect production and price dynamics, market fundamentals remain the main drivers of production outcomes. Yet, the report underscores the key structural trade-offs between intensification and extensification.

The meat agenda: Agricultural exceptionalism and greenwash in Brazil

In this report, NGO Changing Markets Foundation investigates the scale of corporate capture at COP30 by the meat industry, shines a spotlight on the agricultural methane blind spot and unpacks how key climate policies are being weakened.

Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change

Authors Emily F. Gates and Pablo Vidueira critique the "fixed" approach of traditional program evaluation and policy analysis, and they advance an alternative approach centered on changing systems and developing the value of efforts toward change.

Wasted Potential: Tackling Food Loss and Waste Across Transforming Food Systems

This open access book examines how food systems reforms can support efforts to achieve SDG 12, responsible consumption and production, by reducing food loss and waste in support of sustainable, safe, and nutritious diets in countries at different points of structural transformation.

Why ‘mob grazing’ may help protect drought-hit Senegal’s vast grasslands

News and resources

A regenerative scheme in Senegal has shown early promise, with herders hopeful it can restore degraded pastures.