The themes of this challenge focus around the impact of political upheaval, climate change, and energy costs on food security, sustainable production, and health. In the current global food crisis, how can we work to ensure that everyone has access to good, healthy, environmentally-friendly food?
This guide highlights a range of resources to explore these challenges.
Use Library Search to find climate related book and journal content from a range of full text resources.
You can search for broad topics like food culture or sustainable food and browse by date to see the latest publications Or you can run more focused topic searches.
Here are some sample searches - but try some some of your own.
Top Tip! Refine your search results to "Available Online" whilst you are researching away from the Library
Established by the United Nations General Assembly, and facilitated by WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Safety Day occurs every year on 7th June. The theme for 2025 is "Food safety: science in action".
To quickly find policy documents and reports, you can also use the following databases:
TED talk: How climate change could make our food less nutritious
TED talk: We need to stop eating meat to save the planet
Consumers in crisis: an action agenda for future food systems (Consumers International, 2024)
Resilient food systems for climate action (World Food Programme, 2024)
Future Food Trajectories (Forum for the Future, 2024)
Government Food Strategy (HM Government, 2022)
The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health (EAT-Lancet, 2019)
The future of food 2040 (NFU, 2019)
Clark, M.A, Springmann, M., Hill, J. & Tilman, D. (2019) "Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 23357-23362. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906908116
Ritchie, H. (2021) "How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?" Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food
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