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EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap and Action Plan 2050 plus associated materials

Members may be interested in the various publications of the SPREAD project. This is an EU sponsored iniatiative that seeks to provide a social platform for research and engagement on sustainable...

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Presentation: Critique of policy measures to address recent food price crises

Category for mailing:  Initiatives Beginning in 2007, the world has suffered three rounds of high food prices. These crises were caused by a variety of factors—from extreme weather events to civil...

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Can we cut out the meat of the dish? Constructing consumer-oriented pathways...

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles Schösler H, de Boer J, Boersema JJ. (2012) Can we cut out the meat of the dish? Constructing consumer-oriented pathways towards meat substitution....

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WRI Working Paper: Creating a sustainable food future – The great balancing act

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles  This working paper from the World Resources Institute (WRI) prepared for the forthcoming World Resources Report discusses how the increased demand...

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Eating Better Policy Briefing

Category for mailing:  Reports Eating Better, an alliance of organisations advocating for ‘less and better’ meat consumption, has launched its policy recommendations to promote healthy sustainable...

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New Paper: Putting Back Meaning into “Sustainable Intensification”

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles This paper critiques the concept of sustainable intensification as follows: “Though often lauded by scientists and policy makers alike as a panacea...

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Storify report from debate - Feeding Britain: Can we do it sustainably?”

Category for mailing:  Reports This debate, held on 8 July 2014 and hosted by the Green Alliance, discussed the question “Feeding Britain: Can we do it sustainably?” It focused on how prepared...

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Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimates of U.S. Dietary Choices and Food Loss

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles This paper looks at the environmental costs of food production and consumption. It offers an updated account of the GHG emissions associated with...

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Understanding the Transition in Diet, Activity, Body Composition and...

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles This set of papers reports on findings from the most recent undertaking of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). The CHNS is a long-term...

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Book: Food Ethics: The Basics

Category for mailing:  Books Food Ethics: The Basics  provides an introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most...

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Chinas Growing appetite For Pork

Category for mailing:  Resources In his article in TheEconomist, it is argued that China’s insatiable appetite for pork is not only a symbol of the country’s rise, but also a danger to the world from a...

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Online knowledge platform for sustainable food value chains

Category for mailing:  Resources FAO has launched a new online platform, which provides access to resources on developing sustainable food value chains (SFVC).The goal is for SFVC development to...

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The potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK through healthy...

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles This study focuses on UK diets.  It finds that if in average diets conformed to WHO recommendations, associated GHG emissions would be reduced by...

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Two methods for jointly evaluating environmental impact and nutritional...

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles This paper presents two ways of including environmental and nutritional aspects in the sustainability assessment of diets. Three diets were assessed...

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Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health –new study...

Category for mailing:  Journals and Journal Articles This major study compiles and analyses global-level data to assess relationships among diet, environmental sustainability and human health.  It...

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