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EU climate mitigation policies regarding agriculture are less than ambitious. This is due to a flawed understanding of what agricultural policy should take into account, this article argues: not 'the farm' should be the focal point of agricultural policy but the food system as a whole. This opens…

A popular instrument to achieve greener food choices by consumers are eco-labels. The effectiveness of this measure is, however, highly dependent on its specific implementation. A reduction of the label flood and the introduction of more comprehensive and reliable, multi-level-label could improve…

Concerns about the use of child labor in West African cocoa production became widespread in the early 2000s in many high-income countries. In 2015 in Ghana, 91.8% (or a total of 878,595) of the children working in the cocoa sector were involved in a form of hazardous work. Child labor in cocoa…

In this study, approaches to open source plant germplasm are discussed, and the Open Source Seed (OSS) Licence is introduced and analysed. The OSS Licence was developed by an interdisciplinary working group of plant breeders, agricultural scientists, lawyers, and commons experts in Europe.

Continuing high consumption of livestock products in nearly all developed countries, and increasing demand for livestock-based foods in large transition economies, are creating serious problems of prolonged and persistent environmental and social degradation.

Governing urban food systems in the short- and long term

Cities can act as political entrepreneurs of the food system. Urban food governance is an innovative policy field. This article outlines how cities become transformative players and help to overcome the most pressing challenges facing today’s…