We did it! Congrats to my fellow co-authors for producing this World Bank book on the new circular food economy. This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the benefits and costs of using the frontier agriculture technologies to create a circular food economy … Continue reading Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa : The New Circular Food Economy
How can we eat more sustainable? Does livestock have a future in green farming? Is small-scale farming the future? As an economic sector, agriculture accounts for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions but agreement on how to reduce that is proving difficult. Monocle’s “The Foreign Desk” has teamed up with the Nordic Council … Continue reading The Foreign Desk: Sustainable agriculture
On 7 September 2021, our World Bank Africa Region Team (Dorte Verner, Nanna Roos, Afton Halloran, Glenn Surabian, and Da Woon Chung) was given an award by the Korean Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The award is for the work that we have started on insect farming, including learning from the Korean insect farming industry. Thank … Continue reading Award from the Korean Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
How do we change eating habits? Do you want to learn more about the guidelines and tools that can address both nutrition and environmental sustainability? Join the Nordic Council of Ministers for an interactive discussion in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. We’re counting down to the launch of the 2022 … Continue reading From science and guidelines to food system transformation
We all have the power to change systems. And it takes brave people to take the lead, take action and transform our food systems. This is the Nordic Food Policy Lab’s essential guide to creating policy playgrounds and pushing the climate agenda. Everyday across the world, food policy experiments take place. Big and small, these … Continue reading Setting the table: a story of food policy innovation
Transforming food systems is a shortcut to sustainable lifestyles. This was the message from more than 115 people who participated in the “Towards sustainable Nordic food systems” project. To achieve transformative change, the Nordic region can build on the shared history of collaboration. Despite the bumps on the road to 2030, four new insight papers … Continue reading Changing Nordic food and lifestyles: eight entry points
Want to create recipes for transformation? On 26 January, we launched the Cookbook for systems change: Nordic innovation strategies for sustainable food by Nordic Food Policy Lab of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Stockholm Resilience Centre and EAT. The Cookbook lays out an inclusive Nordic approach to implementing research and innovation-oriented missions. The Cookbook for systems change highlights … Continue reading Cookbook for Systems Change
The project Towards sustainable Nordic food systems explored what's next in developing and implementing strategies to promote sustainable Nordic food systems. This was done through a series of dialogues between researchers and food system actors in the Nordic countries. The project was led by Amanda Wood from Stockholm Resilience Centre and supported by the Nordic … Continue reading Eight opportunities for Nordic collaboration of sustainable food systems
How can we think about the future in the context of food? What should we pay attention to? What signals are important and what is just noise? On 4 September, I will be participating in Latvia's conversation festival, Lampa. Together with a leading researcher on Baltic food systems and the owner of a butcher shop, … Continue reading Future of Food discussions at Lampa, Latvia’s conversation festival
While the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerabilities of food systems, it also provides an opportunity to build even greater resilience. Over the past couple of months, I have been collaborating with Amanda Wood and My Sellberg to develop this think piece for the Nordic Food Policy Lab of the Nordic Council of Ministers. We investigate … Continue reading Vulnerability and resilience in Nordic food systems
Sustainable Food Systems Transitions 