Volume 4 Issue 1, January 2023

Lived experience research recognizes the inherent expertise of communities, and challenges existing power imbalances in policy processes. Yet, without a strong rationale for including community lived experience, researchers, practitioners, community members and policymakers may face pushback when seeking to move community voice to the centre of food systems policy processes.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) delivers independent and transparent scientific advice to policymakers in the European Union. Executive Director Bernhard Url believes that food safety is an integral part of the One Health vision of transformed food systems.

Aligning an organization’s food consumption with ambitious biodiversity targets involves complex steps but is instrumental for the protection of biodiversity nationally and globally.

Regulatory bodies exist at the science–policy interface. They must have robust and reliable mechanisms to avert regulatory capture, including ways to identify and address conflicts of interest.

Using a resilience heuristic to diagnose food systems will allow us to identify and relieve the underlying drivers of food system challenges. This perspective identifies four ‘aching points’ that are central points of tension in the local–global debate, and proposes transformative pathways towards more sustainable and resilient food systems.

Immortalized chicken fibroblasts grown in serum-free media yield up to 36% w/v. Direct transdifferentiation generates adipocytes that, when blended with extruded soy protein, produce cultured chicken comparable with chicken breast.

This study uses arable soils subjected to consistent management for over 160 years to understand the influence of organic matter on arable soil nitrogen metabolism. The nonlinear and systems-level approach shows that important increases in nutrient-use efficiency can be achieved to improve soil organic carbon stocks and reduce N₂O emissions.

Estimates of greenhouse gas emissions associated with feeding the world population rarely account for specific nutrient gaps. This study applies a composite indicator of emissions intensity of nutrient production to calculate non-CO₂ emissions of closing the global dietary gaps for energy, protein, iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12 and folate in 2030 under five climate-friendly scenarios.

Integrated structural and technological changes across the Chinese pork supply chain can improve production and meet demand while reducing phosphorous and nitrogen losses.

The Russia–Ukraine war has impacted food access globally, but the exact drivers behind it and the broader consequences for human and environmental health are unclear. Through scenario analysis, this study assesses the relative importance of higher agricultural input prices and export disruption to food access, and estimates undernourishment and cropland expansion.

This Analysis illustrates how nature-positive targets aimed at protecting biodiversity can be achieved at the scale of organizations. A canteen at one UK university college is used as a case study for the application of a four-step participatory approach comprising an estimation of food-related biodiversity impacts; definition of biodiversity targets; assessment of possible interventions; and exploration of different strategies.

The spatial patterns of global soil potential nitrogen cycling were characterized using 4,032 observations from 398 published studies. The global soil nitrogen cycle shifts from conservative in forests to leaky in croplands, highlighting the importance of forests in the global nitrogen cycle and the need for further insights on nitrate retention in croplands.

More than simply a site for cookery, the kitchen has been home to scientific endeavour, empiricist knowledge, political expressionism, and touristic spectacles of architecture, design and technology. Writing about the kitchen is thus a powerful tool for communicating wider discourses.