This study examines the popular documentary Kiss the Ground (2020) and its sequel Common Ground (2023) and its claims that regenerative agriculture is a “simple solution” to climate change, chronic disease, and other planetary crises. The authors argue that it not only ignored the scientific doubts and evidence gaps surrounding regenerative agriculture's benefits; it also shifted in response to a changing U.S. political climate. 

A new roadmap from Food Systems Transformation Group at the Environmental Change Institute and the Agricultural Resilience Impact and Innovation Hub (AGRIIH), University of Oxford, explores what it would take to realise the potential of UK pulses by 2035. The roadmap highlights that there is no single pathway for scaling pulses. Instead, it identifies four priority areas for action, including strengthening demand, investing in processing infrastructure, improving grower viability and supporting innovation across multiple pulse pathways. 

This paper examines how UK seafood processing businesses responded to COVID-19 and Brexit disruptions, focusing on flexibility, diversity, and connectivity as key characteristics of resilience. It finds that during the crisis businesses with diversified products, customers, labour force, and suppliers showed greater resilience. To build more resilience, the industry forums should develop UK processing capacity to reduce dependence on overseas supply chains, and expand digital infrastructure for direct-to-consumer sales. 

This study suggests key soil health indicators and examines the three-way interactions between mineral fertilizer, crop productivity, and soil health in Sub-Saharan Africa. It argues conclude that mineral fertilizer use, as a core component of integrated soil fertility management, must increase and be co-applied with organic inputs to increase productivity and fertilizer use efficiency and restore and sustain soil health.

This study assesses the Netherlands’ net-export potential using an agroecological food system model. It find that producing the food groups currently consumed domestically would require all available land in the country. Even with a shift towards more plant-based diets, the potential to export food remains limited if land is also required for strengthening natural ecosystems and fostering the biobased economy. 

This study analyzes trade effects for ten voluntary sustainability standards across seven tropical commodity sectors, using data on VSS coverage and design, and gravity models of bilateral trade flows. It finds that VSS coverage is associated with increased trade volumes and, in most cases, lower export prices; price increases occur only for some VSS and commodities.

The 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition findings show that while global food security and nutrition improved modestly in 2025, progress remains uneven and insufficient to meet the 2030 targets. Hunger affected 7.8 percent of the world’s population, and 2.1 billion people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity—yet these figures also reflect meaningful gains, including the first signs of improvement in Africa. 

This report by Mercy Corps examines how conflict, climate extremes, economic shocks, and disease outbreaks are compounding into a systemic "polycrisis," with an intensifying El Niño now threatening harvests and livelihoods just as humanitarian funding is under strain.

This book explains how Food Policy Councils solve food systems problems and presents a path forward for existing Food Policy Councils to grow their impact and shares tips for advocates planning to start new food policy councils.