A fungus turns the crop into a carcinogenic time bomb. This Senegalese scientist says he can fix that.

What should children eat and why? How should they eat it, and what should they learn about food? Answers to questions like these have differed over time. First Helpings explores the relationship between children and food in history and considers ways forward.

In Bitter Honey, Jennie Durant takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the human and ecological cost of industrial farming for bees, beekeepers, and all of us who depend on them. Bees today face a gauntlet of threats: parasites and disease, pesticide exposure, and climate extremes—all magnified by modern agriculture practices. Beekeepers, meanwhile, endure grueling practices just to survive, often losing half their hives each year.

This study argues that current global crop models underestimate the sensitivity of rice to temperatures but the authors estimate that global rice yield losses decrease by 8.1% under 1°C of global warming, approximately twice the unadjusted estimates, with South and Southeast Asia being the most vulnerable regions.

This study show that current progress is insufficient to meet 2030 targets and benchmarks at global level on food systems transformation, building on the Food Systems Countdown Initiative framework. Achieving most targets and benchmarks by 2050 is possible if countries correct course and accelerate progress, but certain indicators will require considerable investment and intervention.

This study assessed future planetary boundary transgressions under different scenarios both on global and local scales. Policies addressing the food system (such as dietary change, productivity increase, and halving food loss and waste) can help to reduce future transgressions. Dietary change results in the largest reductions in the land-system change (70%) and biosphere integrity (69%) domains. Policies with a focus on agricultural productivity improve the biogeochemical flows (phosphorus) domain (92%). 

This study maps and traces long-term carbon storage and biodiversity loss from land use in global agricultural supply chains at a high spatial and product resolution. It shows that while the Northern Hemisphere experiences greater carbon loss and the Southern Hemisphere higher biodiversity loss, areas with high carbon and biodiversity losses are often co-located, with two-thirds of total losses occurring within one-third of the total area.

This report by the Food Foundation finds that 18% of its fruit and veg comes from nations at high and moderate risk to climate change and explores the prospects for the supply of fruit, vegetables, beans and pulses in the UK in a changing climate.

This study argues that scaling up green nitrogen in Africa, small-scale nitrogen fertilizer synthesis powered by renewable electricity, could help Africa address recurrent fertilizer shocks. The authors propose a prioritisation assessment that compares potential decentralised production with imports, regional trade, larger low-emission plants to identify intervention bundles that deliver the right nitrogen product to the right farmers at the right cost.