Journal article / Animal products and commodities grown in the tropics are generally much more impactful than staple crops and vegetables.
Other publication / This report argues that animal welfare should be embedded in the 2030 Agenda and other sustainability goals to benefit environment, humans and animals alike.
Other publication / This report focuses on the potential environmental, health, social and animal welfare implications of the uptake of novel meat and dairy alternatives.
Journal article / This journal article applies the Welfare Footprint Framework to chicken farming, showing the investment and benefits of raising slower-growing chicken breeds.
Journal article / The authors examine seven common strategies for feeding everyone with a smaller carbon footprint and analyse each for their consequences and benefits.
Journal article / A Comment in Nature Food details the shortfalls in the FAO's food systems roadmap to eliminate hunger without breaching the 1.5°C climate change threshold.
SEI report / This groundbreaking report charts routes toward a just transition away from large-scale meat production and consumption in high-consuming countries.
Journal article / This review examines interventions that guide consumer behaviour toward reducing food waste and adopting environmentally sustainable diets.
Perspective / SEI's Cleo Verkuijl calls for a comprehensive approach to food system reform that supports climate, public health, animal welfare and ecosystems all at once.
Perspective / In this perspective, SEI Senior Scientist Cleo Verkuijl outlines lessons from fossil fuel governance that can guide transformation of the global food system.
Perspective / SEI's Charlotte Wagner and Jonathan Green highlight an overlooked issue at the 2024 High-Level Political Forum: pollution's impact on small fisheries.
Perspective / Researchers call for a renewed focus on animal welfare and the ethical price being paid for a narrow and inattentive focus on emissions reduction.
Perspective / Animal welfare matters for sustainable development. The UN Environmental Assembly should recognize this link.
Perspective / Policies can support a shift towards more plant-based food in high-consuming countries, with benefits for climate, public health and biodiversity.
Perspective / Science, policy and collaboration can transform food systems and improve production, nutrition, environment and lives.
Perspective / As Colombia seeks a shift away from fossil fuel extraction, SEI experts warn against replacing one polluting sector with another.
Perspective / Ieva Galkyté and Mark Driscoll outline five major considerations for transforming Eastern European food systems in line with the EU Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy.
Feature / SEI scientists weigh in on the new UNEP report exploring potential effects of some novel alternatives to conventional animal products, which launched at COP28.
Feature / Fifteen Estonian schools are participating in the SchoolFood4Change project, aiming to instil healthy and sustainable eating habits in students.
Past event / Watch this webinar to hear experts explore how improving the lives of animals can strengthen human wellbeing and environmental sustainability.
Past event / Watch this webinar recorded on 25 May 2022 on the interdependence of animal welfare, public health and environmental conservation.
Past event / SEI Scientist Cleo Verkuijl joins an online expert panel 10 September on animal rights and welfare in agriculture. Hosted by TABLE.
Past event / Watch this expert panel discuss how to tackle climate action in food systems while also protecting public health, ecosystems and animal welfare.
SEI has been on the frontline of key issues confronting global food systems. Our team brings together expertise on the legal and political dimensions of sustainable development and climate policy; just transitions; alternative proteins; food systems policy; and animal health and welfare. The program also capitalizes on SEI’s geographic reach, tapping experience and networks in Europe and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the UK and the US.
Project / Animal welfare matters for sustainable development; and sustainable development matters for animals.
Project / The world’s appetite for animal products continues to grow, with profound implications for the environment, human health and animal welfare.
Project / A Horizon Europe project strengthening the evidence base on food supply chain impacts by improving open data, models and real-world uptake.
Project / AgroPolis co-creates value chain innovations and policies to scale agroecology and transform Europe’s food systems toward resilience and equity.
Other publication / This leaflet illustrates how Maramche Agroecological Village applies the 13 agroecological principles in practical farming settings.
Press release / Powerful new automated image analysis identifies soy facilities with over 90% accuracy – turbocharging transparency around logistical links in supply chains.
