Volume 3 Issue 11, November 2022

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters are probably sentient, yet their welfare needs are poorly protected in the food system. Upholding animal welfare in the seafood industry presents challenges, and more research is needed to address humane capture, housing and slaughter.

The EDGAR-FOOD database presents a way forward in quantifying the impacts of air pollutants emitted from the global food system on human health and crops.

Computer-aided food engineering (CAFE) drives high-level innovations in food safety and quality. The multiscale structure of foods requires novel modelling paradigms. This Review explores current CAFE modelling frameworks and computational approaches and the challenges to introducing computer-aided engineering in food-manufacturing processes.

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.

Waste-to-nutrition pathways are explored with process-based life cycle assessments of four valorization pathways for a panel of representative agrifood co-product streams. Although the principles of circular bioeconomy represent important guidelines for overall sustainability, they are not enough to support decisions for resource allocation.

Feeding industrial hemp silage affected feed intake, milk yield, respiratory and heart rates, and behaviour of dairy cows. Transfer of cannabinoids from feed to milk was investigated with liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry and toxicokinetic computer modelling, and potential exposure to consumers explored.

Gaps in the literature include empirical sustainability assessments of blockchain technology and plant-based seafood alternatives, public health consequences of food deliveries and socio-economic consequences of vertical farming.

The exact contribution of food systems to air pollution is unknown. On the basis of the European Commission’s EDGAR-FOOD database, a global emission inventory of air pollutants from the food systems, this study quantifies historic emissions of major pollutant compounds at each stage of the food supply chain at country level.

Promoting higher-than-historical adoption rates of improved Bos taurus × Bos indicus crosses is essential to meet Tanzania’s Dairy Development Roadmap targets and achieve dairy self-sufficiency by 2030.