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How can we shape future demand?
Technology and new business models make it possible to do much more with much less. Will governments and companies seize the opportunity?
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Will the new industrial revolution bring sustainability?
Digitalization, big data and circular and ‘sharing’ economies are reconfiguring global economic activities. Alignment with environmental goals is key.
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How can land deliver all we need?
Land delivers critical services, from food, climate response to cleaner air and water. Reconciling competing demands for land use is a good start.
Sustainable Food and Land Use Systems: The Role of International Trade
Our latest paper explores how trade can promote healthier and more sustainable food and land use systems.
Read the paperImage: Han Jiajun/Visual China Group via Getty Images
The Global Food Value Chain: A Snapshot
International value chains have long played a critical role in shaping global food production and consumption patterns.This article provides an overview of these shifts and a snapshot into 3 key commodities.
Read the articleImage: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
Driven to Extraction
Can sand mining be sustainable? This article sets out the landscape of the global sand mining industry highlighting the environmental, social, and political consequences of its scale, and outlines future pathways to the sustainable extraction of sand.
Read the articleImage: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics/Getty Images
Healthy Diets from Sustainable Production: Indonesia
This paper outlines the steps Indonesia should take to promote and safeguard healthier diets from sustainable production.
Read the paperIllustration: Nathalie Lees
Recent publications
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Delivering Sustainable Food and Land Use Systems: The Role of International Trade
Report by Christophe Bellmann, Bernice Lee and Jonathan Hepburn
20 Sep 2019 • 4 min read
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The Global Food Value Chain: A Snapshot
Long read by Bernice Lee, Jonathan Hepburn, Isadora Ferreira and Christophe Bellmann
20 Sep 2019 • 33 min read
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Driven to Extraction: Can Sand Mining be Sustainable?
Article by Oli Brown and Pascal Peduzzi
30 May 2019 • 17 min read
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The Future of Electricity
Collection (4 publications)
1 Feb 2019
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Healthy Diets from Sustainable Production: Indonesia
Report by Sonja Vermeulen, Laura Wellesley, Sam Airey and Sudhvir Singh
24 Jan 2019 • 30 min read
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Shifting to Sustainable Consumption for 1.5°C: Gaps, Solutions, and New Policy Agendas
Event summary by Sam Airey and Mark Conway
5 Nov 2018 • 2 min read
Events
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Decarbonise Industrial Sectors
Dialogue & Workshop by Hoffmann Centre & DeepMind
22 January 2019, 09:00–17:00 GMT • Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE United Kingdom
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Reinventing Meat
Conference by Hoffmann Centre
9 May 2019, 17:30–20:00 BST • Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE United Kingdom
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Harnessing Big Data and AI for Sustainable and Inclusive Agriculture
Conference by Hoffmann Centre
30–31 July 2019
