Supermarket shelves can look full despite the food systems underneath them being under strain. Fruit may be stacked neatly, ...

A globalized food system has its obvious benefits staring at us from the grocery store shelves: fresh red strawberries no matter the season and flash-frozen seafood available thousands of miles from ...

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan still more than three months away, much of the focus is on climate finance. However, food systems advocates are eager to ...

What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple ...

People need reliable access to sufficient, nutritious and affordable food to maintain their health and well-being. However, natural and socio-economic disruptions can jeopardize the security of food ...

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 13 - Climate action. Global climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, posing significant risks ...

Wheat brought by trucks is kept in warehouses and silos in Erbil, Iraq on May 29, 2022. Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKRG) aims to buy all the wheat in the hands of the farmers due to the food ...

Food systems should be sustainable, equitable and resilient. They have the power to reduce our global carbon footprint and to increase resiliency to pandemics, improve public health, preserve ...

Chibuike Udenigwe receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). University of Ottawa provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR.

The global food system—from farm to fork—is facing dramatic changes. Food production has evolved from a predominantly local effort to meet the nutritional needs of small communities to one dominated ...