19 results, sorted by date
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Land economy
Land is central to many critical needs, from food security and climate change to cleaner air and water. How can these competing demands be reconciled?
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Food, Climate & Nutrition: Delivering Win-Win-Win Solutions
The Hoffmann Centre has prepared a collection of articles that highlight the synergies between food, climate and nutrition. The goal of these publications is to foster constructive discussion and to contribute to a coherent land use vision as well as common approaches and actionable programmes for sustainable food and land systems that meet a myriad of development, food security and climate needs.
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Subsidies and Sustainable Agriculture: Mapping the Policy Landscape
Agricultural subsidies have a large part in shaping production and consumption patterns, with potentially significant effects on food security, nutrition, climate change and biodiversity. Our latest report maps the policy landscape and political economy of subsidies and outlines potential opportunities for reform and intervention.
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Closing the Gap: Overcoming Barriers to Investment in Forests
How can financial flows be directed to natural climate solutions, in particular, forests? This workshop brought together scientists, NGOs and private and public investors to explore barriers and opportunities to increasing private capital investments into forests – one of the most promising natural climate solutions available.
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The Global Food Value Chain: A Snapshot
International value chains have long played a critical role in shaping global food production and consumption patterns. In recent decades however, their scale, nature and geographical scope has evolved significantly. Our article provides an overview of these shifts and a snapshot into 3 key commodities.
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Delivering Sustainable Food and Land Use Systems: The Role of International Trade
80% of the world’s population is dependent on imports to meet their food and nutritional requirements. Our latest report explores how trade policies can promote healthier and more sustainable food and land use systems.
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Driven to Extraction: Can Sand Mining be Sustainable?
Sand is a critical ingredient for many of the materials that we take for granted: concrete, glass and asphalt. Sand and coarse aggregates form the backbone of the modern world and also, through land reclamation, the ground on which we live. A growing global population increasingly living in cities has led to a spiralling rise in the extraction of sand and aggregates, with serious environmental, political and social consequences.
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Healthy Diets from Sustainable Production: Indonesia
Transitioning towards healthy diets from sustainable production could provide relief from some of the most pressing environmental and public health challenges Indonesia faces. This paper outlines some of the steps that could help deliver this transformation in Indonesia.
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Breaking the Vicious Circle: Food, Climate & Nutrition
The food system is locked in a vicious circle of increasing production, environmental degradation and rising public health costs. Yields have plateaued but demand is rising while diet is becoming progressively more unhealthy and unsustainable. Rob Bailey and Bernice Lee call on the need for a clear alternative vision to break this vicious circle.
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Interventions: Sustainable & Healthy Populations
Sustainable and healthy diets could bring widespread environmental and public health benefits. Laura Wellesley outlines the strategies and interventions required to sustainably meet the nutritional needs of a growing global population.
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Interventions: Sustainable Agriculture Production
Agriculture must be radically transformed for environmental, food and nutrition security to be reconciled. Richard King outlines some of the existing and emerging opportunities to shift production towards more sustainable and equitable outcomes.
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Interventions: Natural Infrastructure
Natural infrastructure restoration and management can be a physically effective and cost-efficient way to enhance food production and deliver climate and nutrition security. Ana Yang outlines three imperatives necessary for achieving this.