Food systems are responsible for global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and global terrestrial biodiversity loss. They are a significant driver of land conversion and deforestation.  Policies that operate across the food systems can contribute both to food security and environmental sustainability. One of these cross-cutting policy fields is Public Food Procurement...

The challenges in front of the food systems and the need to transform them have become central in experts' speeches, and more recently, in political discourse, as evidenced by the organization of a Food system Summit in 2021, initiated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The  COVID-19 crisis has...

N2Africa - Putting Nitrogen Fixation to Work for Smallholder Farmers in Africa was a 10-yr large development-to-research project focused on tapping expertise from all around the world to ensure the best technologies find their way into the hands of smallholder farmers in Africa which concluded late last year. N2Africa reached...

Climate change has severe negative impacts on livelihoods and food systems worldwide. According to the latest scenarios, the world's future is in jeopardy in the face of the challenges of improving food security and nutrition, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. There is an urgent need to transform the food systems to...

The production and availability of nutritious, healthy, and culturally adequate food depends on functioning ecosystems, but also on our ability to recognize human rights and the intrinsic values of other living beings, from animals and plants to microorganisms.  The articles in this edition called for an overhaul of how societies produce,...

There is a consensus that the global food system is not delivering good nutrition for all and is causing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. A profound transformation is needed to meet the challenges of persistent malnutrition and rural poverty, aggravated by climate change consequences. Agroecological approaches have gained prominence in...