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General news | 2025-10-14
Stockholm Resilience Centre, in collaboration with Convene and EAT, hosted Action Day, a full-day workshop uniting around 100 global leaders and practitioners to accelerate transformation toward a healthy, sustainable, and just food system.
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Research in short | 2025-10-03
Axfoundation has developed a Nordic two-day diet inspired by the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet, illustrating how Swedes can eat sustainably — close to today’s habits, yet in balance with the planet.
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Research story | 2025-10-03
Five of the seven breached planetary boundaries are linked to food systems. By transforming production and adopting a “planetary health diet,” we can halve food-related climate emissions and prevent millions of deaths, according to the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission.
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Research story | 2025-09-22
A new study reveals that Sweden has a high potential to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 through changes in its food system. Key strategies include adjusting diets, phasing out fossil fuels across the food chain and reducing food waste. Together, they can help us stay within the planetary boundary for climate and improve people’s health.
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General news | 2025-05-23
In the first call within the European partnership AGROECOLOGY, Formas is funding six research- and innovation projects. One of the projects awarded 3.5 million SEK is “ Territorial Agroecological Living Labs (TAELabs)”, led by Jamila Haider at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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Research in short | 2025-03-03
A new study calls for “transformation alliances”, where different actors deploy different capabilities for accelerating food system change.
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Research in short | 2025-03-03
The JUSTRA matrix uses key questions to examine how justice has shaped food systems in the past, how it affects them now, and how it should guide future decisions. By using this tool food system players can work toward a fairer food system.
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Research story | 2025-01-13
Start-ups are racing to develop lab-grown alternatives to coffee, cocoa, and palm oil, aiming to reduce the environmental and social harm linked to these crops while meeting rising global demand. Yet, little is known about the full potential and consequences of these innovations, according to a new study published in Nature Food.
Research story | 2024-12-18
At UNCCD COP16, researchers from the Centre showcased important insights from the XPaths Project. Their work highlights how participatory research can be an important tool for creating solutions that address land degradation and strengthen drought resilience worldwide.
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Research in short | 2024-11-28
Researchers striving for sustainability transformations must reflect on their own values—not just those of stakeholders. To create meaningful change, scientist need to embody the principles they advocate. By aligning with values like care, inclusivity, and reflexivity, researchers can strengthen collaboration, deepen impact, and better contribute to systemic change.
Research story | 2024-09-23
New study explores ‘biodiversity limits’ to ruminant meat and milk production based on using two thirds of global grazing lands, and only at low intensities.
Research story | 2024-09-17
New study highlights the potential of culinary craftsmanship as a tool for diverse and resilient landscapes
Research in short | 2024-08-26
The global shift away from animal-source foods and towards plant-based and alternative proteins is crucial to reducing the food system's impact on our planet. However, focusing solely on closing the 'protein gap' risks overlooking a more pressing issue: the justice gap.
Research in short | 2024-05-31
A new study presents an evidence-based review approach for investors to assess sector-level impacts on individual Sustainable Goals (SDGs), and score these using a traffic-light system.
Research story | 2024-03-19
Including environmental considerations in the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations has received much praise from authorities and scientists. But it has also sparked criticisms. Centre expertise clears the confusion in a new policy report.
Research news | 2024-02-08
Replacing animal-source foods with plant-based alternatives or whole foods decreases environmental impact, meets nutrition recommendations, and can be cost-competitive with the current average Swedish diet
Research news | 2024-01-24
Social systems where influence is centred around one or two individuals can lead to pack mentality and groupthink in farming communities
Research news | 2024-01-22
From a bean valued for its multitude of functions in ancient China to one of the most traded agricultural commodities of the modern world: the soybean has gone through dramatic changes throughout the millennia.
Research news | 2023-12-05
A relatively small number of powerful financial institutions, such as investment companies, pension funds, and banks could help accelerate actions that mitigate the risks of new pandemics
Research news | 2023-11-13
Humankind risks getting stuck in 14 evolutionary dead ends, ranging from global climate tipping points to misaligned artificial intelligence, chemical pollution, and accelerating infectious diseases
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