Research articles

Higher number of markets, nutrient content, and overall supply coupled with lower retail prices and volumes make usipa more accessible than chambo to Malawians across all regions, particularly for rural consumers.

A spatiotemporal quantification of Fusarium head blight (FHB) mycotoxins in European food and feed wheat highlights the omnipresence of deoxynivalenol and increasing detection of other FHB mycotoxins. These potential health and economic costs emphasize the need to monitor FHB mycotoxin outbreaks and to understand what is driving this change, so that we can develop appropriate mitigation strategies.

The Russia–Ukraine war has disrupted global food supply chains and driven food prices up in many parts of the world. This study applies a spatially explicit modelling approach to estimate the resilience and environmental co-benefits of a transition towards the EAT-Lancet’s planetary health diets across Europe.

Global agricultural markets can partially compensate for halted crop exports from Ukraine and Russia by increasing wheat and maize production in other areas, but carbon emissions and global food insecurity will also increase.

Price fluctuations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have been key determinants of food security in the recent past. A comparison of monthly retail prices in 181 countries from January 2019 to June 2021 reveals which regions and food items have been most affected.

Steep-slope agricultural areas are more vulnerable to future climate impacts than average global agricultural lands. Based on a new high-resolution steep-slope agricultural landscape map, this study estimates the distribution of global steep-slope agricultural landscapes in the present-day (1980–2016) and future (2071–2100) scenarios across the five major climate classes.