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February issue: Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation, winter wheat yields under snow drought, functionally rich crop rotations, China’s use of plastic mulch, urban food environment research… and more!
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January issue: Food-water-migration nexus, stranded assets in European agriculture, wheat yield plateaus, small-scale farmers in high-income countries, demand-side strategies for food waste reduction…and more!
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December issue: Malnutrition underestimation, food systems boundaries, plant-based iron fortification, cost and climate impacts of healthy diets, food industry robots, crops that nourish… and more!
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November issue: Wild forage fish and future aquaculture production, cultivated beef, enhanced soil carbon storage, drought-tolerant rhizobacteria, food systems modelling, the human cost of diets… and more!
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Correspondence: Science thrives on diversity, critical debate and the inclusion of marginalized voices. In global food and nutrition governance, the one-adhering-body model can institutionalize exclusion.
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Changing paradigms through practice - Nature Food While the need to transform food and agriculture through a systemic approach may seem obvious, how to do it given siloed policies and structures is unclear. Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Division of...

Interview: Corinna Hawkes, Director of UN FAO's Division of Food Systems and Food Safety, talks about systemic transformation in practice - and how it is possible to overcome siloed structures where there is focus and intention.
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Identifying the safe operating space for food systems - Nature Food Consensus exists on the urgent need for food systems to be more sustainable, but defining their environmentally safe operating space is challenging. This study proposes food system boundaries as a sha...

Article: Food systems are the single biggest cause of planetary boundary transgressions. In line with the EAT Lancet report, this study estimates food systems boundaries as a share of planetary boundaries, across 9 key indicators.
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October issue: Crop water footprint, Africa’s nutrient gaps, renewable-fueled plant factories, drought resistance in Korea, impacts of the China-Brazil soybean trade, environmental footprint of aquaculture feeds… and more!
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September issue: Documentaries on plant-based diets, biodiversity impact of diets, dish swap for healthier menus, agri-food employment, rebound effects of upcycling food waste… and more!
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August issue: Food systems’ indirect emissions, crop yield stagnation in Africa, traditional knowledge in a circular bioeconomy, food humanitarian aid, settler colonialism and protracted crises… and more!
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Correspondence: the #UNFSS+4 starting in Ethiopia next week must be grounded in transparent governance, direct participation in decision-making processes, and accountability.
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July issue: Flavonoids, pest migration, US-Mexico import tariffs, food ingredient safety, Myanmar's poultry-fish sector, nitrogen benchmarking for cropping systems… and more!
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June issue: Food biodiversity indices, soil health, ammonia decarbonization, mangroves, national pathways for food systems transformation, semantics of food waste… and more!
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The full lethal impact of massive cuts to international food aid The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

Comment in Nature: The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.
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Small-scale fisheries

Data on small-scale fisheries has been piecemeal. A systematic assessment of the sector yields insights into some of their most vital contributions to humanity.
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May issue: Air pollution from agricultural machinery, food waste as resources, Africa’s potential fish production, biochar application, global seafood mercury, shortcomings of food processing classifications… and more
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April issue: Dietary preferences and healthy aging, aquaculture systems in China, soil biodiversity and resilience, digital agriculture, public health approaches to better diets… and more!
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March issue: food environments and human health in focus
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February issue: labor market, food waste policy in the USA, crop rotation in Tibet, public food procurement in the UK, low opportunity cost feed, value-added taxes for foods in the EU, production diversity and diets in rural Africa... and more!
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Perspective: safe and reliable cell sources are needed to scale up cultivated meat production. Details from pre-market dossiers can help with food safety issues associated with commercial upscaling and commercial viability.
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Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake - Nature Food This study presents a predictive equation for total energy expenditure derived from doubly labelled water measurements. Applying this equation to two large datasets (the National Diet and Nutrition Su...

Article: a predictive equation for total energy expenditure shows that misreporting of energy intake in large dietary survey datasets is greater than 50%. The equation can help reduce reliance on traditional dietary assessment methods.
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Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030 - Nature Food This study presents the first annual update of the indicator framework developed by the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, published in Nature Food in 2023. Almost half of all indicators show some des...

Analysis: the first annual monitoring update of the indicator framework proposed by the Food Systems Countdown Initiative shows #governance and #resilience to be most connected to other indicators across themes, highlighting entry points for action.
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Degrowth as a plausible pathway for food systems transformation - Nature Food To address the view that degrowth and the food system are not well aligned, this Perspective offers concrete practical actions to integrate the two, thereby widening the narrative and analytical lens ...

Perspective: degrowth posits a radical pathway of transformation to reduce ecological impacts while increasing well-being and reducing inequality. Food systems and degrowth transformation measures must be better aligned through concrete practical actions.
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Proteomic signatures of healthy dietary patterns are associated with lower risks of major chronic diseases and mortality - Nature Food The use of biomarkers to complement traditional dietary assessment methods can help strengthen findings from nutritional epidemiologic studies. This study identifies plasma proteomic signatures that r...

Article: proteomic signatures can complement traditional dietary assessment methods by linking healthy dietary patterns and risk of major chronic diseases and mortality - ultimately aiding the development of personalized dietary interventions.
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Want to be part of Nature Food's team? We're hiring a full-time editor for 9-12 months with expertise in food systems, food security and sustainability. Application deadline: March 10th. For more information:
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January issue: degrowth and food systems transformation, food grade cell banks, misreporting of energy intake, soil phosphorus stocks, fruit ripeness sensors, food price projections… and more!
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December issue: meat-free days, water productivity and irrigation systems, innovations in pesticide use, carbon footprint of aquaculture, short supply chains... and more!
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