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Planetary Plate Puzzle

Planetary Plate Puzzle is a co-design game that encourages participants from diverse backgrounds to engage in dialogue and find common ground on sustainable future diets. The game has been tested in research settings and later played at multiple events across Europe. It offers an alternative to often heated and polarized debates on such issues as meat versus vegetarian diets, or traditional versus modern eating practices. Although developed in Finland, this serious game can be used anywhere in the world. Focus of the game is on the human diet, consumption, how food is eaten and used, and prepared. Additionally, the game opens up discussions of the whole food system as players discuss and design their plate.

Foodscape

By managing the in-game resources efficiently, players learn how to keep a diet that is both healthy and good for the environment, while also understanding that these goals are sometimes in conflict.

Job: Director of Research & Education, Organic Seed Alliance, Remote, USA

The Research & Education Director leads Organic Seed Alliance’s (OSA) research and education portfolio. The Director sets strategic direction for OSA’s research and education work, leads competitive grant development to sustain and grow that portfolio, supervises senior research and education staff, and represents OSA’s scientific and educational programs to partners, funders, and the broader organic seed community. The Director serves on OSA’s Leadership Team and reports to the Executive Director.The role emphasizes program strategy, fund development, and team leadership. The Director serves as Principal Investigator on a small number of flagship awards, as institutional PI of record on additional projects where senior staff lead day-to-day execution, and may take on or step back from PI responsibilities on other projects based on candidate strengths and program needs.The incoming Director will play a central role in OSA's 2027 strategic planning process, partnering with the Executive Director, Board, and staff team to shape and embed the research and education strategy that will guide the organization's next chapter.The successful candidate embraces OSA’s mission, communicates effectively with farmer and scientific audiences, and is committed to fostering a workplace conducive to teamwork, learning, and the delivery of high-quality programs.

Bonus. Feeding 1 in 6. China's Food Future

Podcast episode

Transcript - Episode 103

Transforming urban food systems: could food democracy and food citizenship be advanced by personal and community impacts of co-production processes?

Journal articles

This research explores how capacities for food citizenship and changemaking emerged via participation in large-scale food systems co-production. It uses creative and participatory methods including poetic inquiry and collage. It concludes that personal and social outcomes from co-production could support urban food systems transformation by creating conditions and capacities for food citizenship and food democracy; potentially catalysing further collective action.

The rising role of post-production emissions in China's urbanizing food system

Journal articles

This study found that China's national food-system emissions increased from 1.63 to 2.14 gigatons of CO2-equivalent, driven largely by energy-intensive food processing and transportation. While agricultural production remained the largest source of emissions, the relative contribution of post-production stages increased from 33.6% to 48.3% as urbanization advanced.

A compass identifying outcomes for sustainable food systems

Journal articles

This study presents a visual tool; the ‘Food Co-Centre Sustainability Compass’. Active involvement of stakeholders from the supply chain, public sector, civil society and research communities achieved consensus on which outcomes must be considered specific to the Irish and UK food system. While the Compass was developed primarily for the Irish and UK food system due to the scope of the project, it is fundamentally applicable in any geography.

Ultraprocessed food research and scientific discourse

Journal articles

The ultraprocessed food debate has become increasingly polarized, with methodological critique often dismissed through rhetorical rather than scientific means. This study argues for strengthening scientific rigour in ultraprocessed food research by examining how dietary assessment limitations, Nova classification ambiguities and residual confounding affect causal inference in epidemiological studies and short-term interventions.