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News about Food security
General news | 2024-11-28
Stockholm University has been granted funding from Formas to establish PLATE – a Swedish research center for resilient meals. PLATE will conduct research and collaborate on the role of meals in enhancing preparedness, sustainability, and competitiveness in Sweden.
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.
General news | 2024-04-10
The research programme Mistra Food Futures, in which the Centre is a partner, receives SEK 64 million for the upcoming four and a half years
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 | 2024-01-22
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 | 2023-12-08
A new science brief from Stockholm Resilience Centre and Global Resilience Partnership launched during COP28 discusses why the current food crisis has escalated so quickly up to global proportions. The researchers list five key actions for policy-makers to address.
Research news | 2023-06-28
Aquaculture contributes substantially to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, but its future potential needs careful consideration of trade-offs, a new study shows
Research news | 2023-06-26
Aquatic foods are essential for global diets, but they are also vulnerable to environmental change. This vulnerability has been largely understudied, according to a new paper
Research news | 2023-05-16
Lack of self-sufficiency and diversity in crop production remain main risks to national food supply, new study finds
Research news | 2023-02-22
Blue foods – fish, shellfish, algae and aquatic plants – can be instrumental in solving multiple global crises, new analysis shows
Research news | 2023-01-30
Humankind’s best chance to deal with looming turbulences and crises is by diversifying response strategies
Research news | 2023-01-30
We are facing the worst food crisis in modern history – Sweden and the EU need to take action to shift how food is produced and consumed. That was the message from researchers to policymakers during a high-level meeting for the Swedish government at Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research news | 2023-01-13
Food systems are becoming increasingly stressed, but whether they are local or global is not the big issue
Research news | 2022-10-05
Amid ongoing global food crises, the Stockholm Resilience Centre adds to its portfolio of food system research by hiring five new postdoctoral fellows
Research news | 2022-09-19
Using waste from food production to feed livestock and aquaculture could help feed more people with less
Research news | 2022-08-22
Sustainable food production techniques ignore crucial interactions in the Earth’s natural system. Incorporating them can be a game-changer
Research news | 2022-06-02
Despite the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic, feeding humankind a healthy diet is still possible, argues Line Gordon during Stockholm University’s Stockholm+50 conference
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