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Insight: Over consumption and influences on diet

Insight, issue five: Overconsumption and influences on diet

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Date: August 2016

GFS Insight aims to offer a balanced and interdisciplinary representation of the current state of knowledge in a particular area relating to food security. This issue outlines the global impacts of overconsumption, exploring the varied range of dietary influences that lead to overconsuming and potential interventions for prevention.

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Food crime matters

Date: 4 July 2016
Author(s): Andy Morling

Criminal activity is costing global food and drink industries billions, but what is being done about it? Andy Morling of the FSA’s National Food Crime Unit reports.

Do we need an IPCC-like international body for food?

Date: 3 May 2016
Author(s): Tim Benton

A common voice is needed to make the most of the evidence, says Global Food Security programme Champion Tim Benton.

de Olde et al. publish outputs from TempAg’s work on sustainability frameworks, metrics and tools

Date: May 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

This paper identifies the most important criteria for experts when selecting indicators for sustainability in temperate agriculture.

Where was food in the COP21 Paris Agreement?

Date: 4 April 2016
Author(s): Tim Benton and Bojana Bajželj

Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5°C limit unachievable. Global Food Security programme Champion Tim Benton and Bojana Bajželj from WRAP explain.

Finland joins TempAg as a full member

Date: April 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

UK-China workshop report published

Date: April 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

UK-China workshop report published.

OECD officially becomes an Associate Member of TempAg

Date: March 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

Engaging with our food future

Date: 8 February 2016
Author(s): Guy Poppy

We need plan for tomorrow today. The Food Standards Agency’s Guy Poppy reports on the upcoming #OurFoodFuture event to do just that.

Tipping points within the food system working group

Date: February 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

GFS established an inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral working group of academics and industry experts to consider tipping points within the food system.

AAAS meeting and congressional briefing, Washington DC

Date: February 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

The findings of the UK-US Taskforce were presented at a session of the AAAS meeting 2016. The session panel also conducted a briefing on the taskforce findings for US Senate staff.

UK-China workshop, Beijing

Date: January 2016
Author(s): Sian Williams

GFS collaborated with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in Beijing to hold the UK-China workshop on extreme weather and global food system resilience.

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