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Research news | 2022-08-22

Current food production is missing a crucial ingredient

Sustainable food production techniques ignore crucial interactions in the Earth’s natural system. Incorporating them can be a game-changer

Research news | 2022-06-01

Looking back at fifty years of Earth-system science

50 years ago, the Stockholm conference was a tipping point in how the world perceived environmental challenges. Today, we need to reach a tipping point towards planetary stewardship

Research news | 2022-05-30

What can we expect from Stockholm+50?

We asked some of our researchers what they hope can come out of the historic UN meeting in Stockholm

Research news | 2022-05-14

Our engagements during Stockholm +50

When and where to find us during the international environmental meeting in Stockholm 2-3 June

Research news | 2022-01-10

Peter Jørgensen receives European Research Council starting grant

The grant consists of 1,5 million Euro over five years for studying the emergence of new problem species in agriculture and human health

Research news | 2021-08-26

Why local realities are crucial to global environmental assessments

Locally, bottom-up-inspired futures are missing from global environmental assessments. A new method tested on the UN’s Global Environment Outlook 6 hopes to change this

Research news | 2021-04-29

Summary of second Nobel Prize Summit science session

Quotes, videos and reflections from the second science session during the Nobel Prize Summit 2021

Research news | 2021-04-28

Summary of first Nobel Prize Summit science session

Quotes, videos and reflections from the first of two science sessions during the Nobel Prize Summit 2021

Research news | 2021-04-15

What a “safe and just” future for people and planet means

Leading social and natural scientists present an approach to define a “safe and just corridor" while addressing the limits of our planet

Research news | 2020-07-19

Humans need to do better to avoid ocean system collapse

Should the ocean system collapse, the resultant crisis would be as devastating as the COVID-19 crisis

Research news | 2020-05-29

Why Covid-19 and systemic risks are part of the hyper-connected world we live in

Transforming our planet into a production plant for food, fiber and fuel paves the way for new and widespread risks. It may define our future

Research news | 2020-05-05

Global shortages loom as Covid-19 is disrupting supply chains

United Nations Global Compact urges governments to work together to keep ocean-related supply chains moving

Research news | 2020-03-09

Global food system vulnerable from reliance on fewer exporting countries

The world is enjoying a richer diet but most countries increasingly depend on food imports. That should worry many of them

Research news | 2019-11-26

If it works here, perhaps it can work there

Food initiatives within the Stockholm-Mälaren region in Sweden offer insight into a transformation of the global food system

Research news | 2019-11-06

An altered planetary anatomy

Humans have transformed much of the planet to produce more and more food, fibre and fuel, now we need to radically transform this global production ecosystem. Centre researchers offer perspectives in Nature's exclusive 150th anniversary collection

Research news | 2019-10-16

Temporary refuge from an ocean of industry

How long will areas inaccessible to global fish industry remain refuges for small-scale fisheries?

Research news | 2019-09-06

Gen(d)erating local responses to global market signals

In Philippine fishing communities, gender roles have a bigger influence than price on fishers’ business decisions

Research news | 2019-06-20

Making long distance relationships work

Local management of ecosystem services is often shaped by far-away power relations and decisions

Research news | 2019-06-10

Dealing with the rapidly changing world of ocean finance

Resource mobilisation for ocean conservation outcomes and more sustainable fisheries is increasing, but transparency, coherence and the critical evaluation of interventions still lag behind

Research news | 2019-06-10

Full of beans

There’s a whole social-ecological crisis behind your morning cup of joe. A new study examines how geographical, time, and legal and institutional scale (mis)matches interplay with the coffee leaf rust outbreak that is affecting small-scale Arabica coffee producers