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Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts to both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform...
Publication · February 21, 2026
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda
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The COVID‐19 pandemic, its impact on the global economy, and current delays in the negotiation of the post‐2020 global biodiversity agenda of the Convention on Biological Diversity heighten the urgency to build back better for biodivers...
Publication · February 21, 2026
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture
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Abstract The growing use of chemical herbicides for weed control has become a dominant feature of modern industrial agriculture and a major environmental and health concern in agricultural systems worldwide. This paper seeks to explain ...
Publication · February 21, 2026
The case for a six-dimensional food security framework
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The definition of food security has evolved and changed over the past 50 years, including the introduction of the four commonly cited pillars of food security: availability, access, utilization, and stability, which have been important ...
Publication · February 21, 2026
The Food Systems Summit’s Failure to Address Corporate Power
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Based on analysis of documentation associated with the UN Food Systems Summit process, we identify three main ways in which the Summit failed to address the problem of corporate power in food systems in a meaningful way. First, the Summ...
Publication · February 21, 2026
The problem with growing corporate concentration and power in the global food system
Publication · February 21, 2026
CRITICAL, EMERGING AND ENDURING ISSUES FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION
Publication · February 21, 2026
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system
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ABSTRACT The world has experienced three global food crises in the past 50 years. While unique triggers sparked each of these crises, they all exposed extreme concentration within the global industrial food system at multiple scales – a...
Publication · February 21, 2026
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?
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Abstract Global environmental politics is at a critical juncture as the Earth System emergency deepens. The core environmental policies and actions of governments, intergovernmental organizations, corporations, and, to a lesser extent, ...
Publication · February 21, 2026
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