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    Food
    Insights
    March 7, 2022

    7 Opportunities to Reduce Emissions from Beef Production

    • emissions
    • GHG emissions
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Cows grazing a field at sundown with windmills in the background.
    • emissions
    • GHG emissions
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    Insights
    March 7, 2022

    6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered

    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    Six cows grazing in an open field.
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    February 14, 2022

    How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

    • Food Loss and Waste
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    An aerial view of a section of rain forest cleared for agriculture.
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • food security
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • nature-based solutions
    • conservation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    Food
    Insights
    April 20, 2021

    Youth Say They Want Climate-friendly Diets. Let’s Help Them Step Up

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • climate change
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    women in grocery store
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • climate change
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    Food
    North America Europe
    Insights
    January 7, 2020

    23 Behavior Change Strategies to Get Diners Eating More Plant-Rich Food

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Business
    • Food
    The way food service professionals present their dishes can have a big impact on whether diners choose sustainable options. Photo by Rick Bella/Pixabay.
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Business
    • Food
    Food
    Insights
    April 25, 2019

    PODCAST: How to Market Sustainable Food

    • podcasts
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Sustainable Development Goal 12
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Delicious pad thai—that's also vegetarian. Flickr/Joss D
    • podcasts
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Sustainable Development Goal 12
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Energy
    Insights
    April 24, 2019

    Food, Fuel and Footnotes: Why Earth Day Aspirations Hinge on Sustainable Food and Energy

    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Energy
    Fresh chilis.
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Energy
    Food
    Insights
    April 10, 2019

    PODCAST: Creating a Sustainable Food Future

    • podcasts
    • Sustainable Development Goal 12
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Veggies in a market. Flickr/Robert Terrell
    • podcasts
    • Sustainable Development Goal 12
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Food
    Insights
    December 5, 2018

    How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Cambodian rice farmers
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Food
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2018

    2018 Will See High Meat Consumption in the U.S., but the American Diet is Shifting

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Food
    Insights
    October 16, 2017

    Two Rules of Thumb to Slash the Environmental Impact of Your Diet

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Sant' Ambrogio Market, Florence, Italy
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    Insights
    May 30, 2017

    Can Reducing Food Waste Solve the Customer Loyalty Problem?

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Fresh food gone to waste. Flickr/USDA
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Equity
    Insights
    October 24, 2016

    Taming Bigfoot to Safeguard the Global Commons

    • Food
    • Cities
    • Economics
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Energy
    • Urban Development
    Cloud Gate in Chicago
    • Food
    • Cities
    • Economics
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Energy
    • Urban Development
    Asia
    Insights
    September 28, 2016

    Why Are Sustainable Diets Such a Big Opportunity for Indonesia?

    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    Tapenade and Foccacia bread
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    Food
    Insights
    August 11, 2016

    Better Buying Lab Aims to Accelerate Demand for Sustainable Food

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    The River Cafe
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Food
    Insights
    April 26, 2016

    How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Food
    Insights
    April 20, 2016

    How I Tweaked My Diet to Cut its Environmental Footprint in Half

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • land use
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    Sunday dinner - fried chicken. green beans, tomatoes, and mashed potatoes with mochka gravy.
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • land use
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • Food
    • food security
    Food
    Insights
    October 2, 2015

    If Croplands Expand, Where Should They Go?

    • creating a sustainable food future
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    Agricultural expansion can't come at the expense of ecosystems like forests, grasslands and wetlands. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    Climate
    Insights
    January 29, 2015

    Biofuels Are Not a Green Alternative to Fossil Fuels

    • Energy
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • biofuels
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate change
    As Earth becomes more crowded, fertile land and the plants it supports become ever more valuable for food, timber and carbon storage—things for which we don’t have an alternative source. Patrick Wall/CIMMYT/Flickr.
    • Energy
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • biofuels
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate change
    Climate
    Insights
    January 28, 2015

    Why Dedicating Land to Bioenergy Won't Curb Climate Change

    • Energy
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • biodiversity
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • food security
    A new WRI working paper recommends against dedicating land to produce bioenergy. Photo by Macomb Paynes.
    • Energy
    • Food
    • creating a sustainable food future
    • biodiversity
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • food security

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