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View article: Food Losses in Agrifood Systems: What We Know
Food Losses in Agrifood Systems: What We Know Open
In 2015, the United Nations and the G20 put food loss and food waste on the global agenda. While progress has been made since then, the scale of the problem persists because food loss and food waste are measured together, not separately. T…
View article: Viewpoint: Ensuring affordability of diets in the face of shocks
Viewpoint: Ensuring affordability of diets in the face of shocks Open
Climate-related shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine have exacerbated world hunger, making it more difficult for people to meet their nutritional needs. This viewpoint examines, for 136 countries, the ability of population…
View article: A Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns
A Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns Open
This chapter recognises that current food consumption patterns, often characterised by higher levels of food waste and a transition in diets towards higher energy, more resource-intensive foods, need to be transformed. Food systems in both…
View article: The Global Cost of Reaching a World Without Hunger: Investment Costs and Policy Action Opportunities
The Global Cost of Reaching a World Without Hunger: Investment Costs and Policy Action Opportunities Open
This study developed a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) to identify a mix of least-cost investment options with the highest potential for hunger reduction, hunger here defined by the undernourishment concept of the Food and Agriculture…
View article: Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems
Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems Open
We present results from the FAOSTAT emissions shares database, covering emissions from agri-food systems and their shares to total anthropogenic emissions for 196 countries and 40 territories for the period 1990–2019. We find that in 2019,…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-389
Comment on essd-2021-389 Open
Abstract. We present results from the FAOSTAT emissions shares database, covering emissions from agri-food systems and their shares to total anthropogenic emissions for 196 countries and 40 territories for the period 1990â2019. We find t…
View article: Spatial Spillover Effects of Agricultural Transport Costs in Peru
Spatial Spillover Effects of Agricultural Transport Costs in Peru Open
The role of agricultural transport costs in core-periphery structures has habitually been ignored in New Economic Geography (NEG) models. This is due to the convention of treating the agricultural good as the numéraire, thus implying that …
View article: Spatial Spillover Effects of Agricultural Transport Costs in Peru
Spatial Spillover Effects of Agricultural Transport Costs in Peru Open
The role of agricultural transport costs in core-periphery structures has habitually been ignored in New Economic Geography (NEG) models. This is due to the convention of treating the agricultural good as the numéraire, thus implyin…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-389
Comment on essd-2021-389 Open
Abstract. We present results from the FAOSTAT emissions shares database, covering emissions from agri-food systems and their shares to total anthropogenic emissions for 196 countries and 40 territories for the period 1990â2019. We find t…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-389
Comment on essd-2021-389 Open
Abstract. We present results from the FAOSTAT emissions shares database, covering emissions from agri-food systems and their shares to total anthropogenic emissions for 196 countries and 40 territories for the period 1990â2019. We find t…
View article: Pre- and post-production processes along supply chains increasingly dominate GHG emissions from agri-food systems globally and in most countries
Pre- and post-production processes along supply chains increasingly dominate GHG emissions from agri-food systems globally and in most countries Open
We present results from the FAOSTAT agri-food systems emissions database, relative to 236 countries and territories and over the period 1990–2019. We find that in 2019, world-total food systems emissions were 16.5 billion metric tonnes (Gt…
View article: The global cost of reaching a world without hunger: Investment costs and policy action opportunities
The global cost of reaching a world without hunger: Investment costs and policy action opportunities Open
This study developed a marginal abatement cost curve to identify a mix of least-cost investment options with the highest potential for hunger reduction, hunger here defined by the undernourishment concept of the Food and Agriculture Organi…
View article: Ethics at the service of development
Ethics at the service of development Open
So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, and we ha…
View article: Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns
Shift to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns Open
Action Track 2 works to catalyse a shift in consumer behaviour that will create and build demand for sustainably produced agriand ocean food products, strengthen shorter value chains, promote circular use of food resources, helping to redu…
View article: On the origins of food loss
On the origins of food loss Open
In this paper, we try to understand what the main causes of food losses (FLs) are. Our results show that producers' education and experience and the number of years in which a producer has been involved in the production of a specific crop…
View article: Robotics and AI in Food Security and Innovation: Why They Matter and How to Harness Their Power
Robotics and AI in Food Security and Innovation: Why They Matter and How to Harness Their Power Open
From strawberry-picking robots to satellite remote sensing and GIS techniques that forecast crop yields, the integration of robotics and AI in agriculture will play a key role in sustainably meeting the growing food demand of the future. B…
View article: Achieving sustainable agricultural practices: From incentives to adoption and outcomes
Achieving sustainable agricultural practices: From incentives to adoption and outcomes Open
Sustainable agricultural practices enable more efficient use of natural resources, mitigate the impact of agriculture on the environment, and strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change and climate variability. Because these pract…
View article: Impacts of market-based contractual arrangements with farmers in Guatemala and Honduras
Impacts of market-based contractual arrangements with farmers in Guatemala and Honduras Open
Globally, policy initiatives have addressed food insecurity and the increasing pressure on available land that has followed from growing populations and changing diets. These policies, however, have been aimed mainly at increasing agricult…
View article: Food loss and waste in agrifood systems: A review of the literature
Food loss and waste in agrifood systems: A review of the literature Open
Tackling food loss and waste can help address hunger and malnutrition without adding to environmental stress. Reductions to food loss and waste also hold important implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and tra…
View article: Deconstructing food losses across the value chain
Deconstructing food losses across the value chain Open
The importance of reducing food loss and food waste has captured the public imagination since it became one of the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The urgency of this issue and the awareness of its significance…