Environmental variability and shock events can be propagated or attenuated along food
supply chains by various economic, political and infrastructural factors. Understanding these …

Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Increasing global food demand, low grain reserves and climate change threaten the stability
of food systems on national to global scales,,,–. Policies to increase yields, irrigation and …

Much of the Earth's biosphere has been appropriated for the production of harvestable
biomass in the form of food, fuel and fibre. Here we show that the simplification and …

Sudden losses to food production (that is, shocks) and their consequences across land and
sea pose cumulative threats to global sustainability. We conducted an integrated …

Global food security is threatened by the effects of COVID-19 on international agricultural
supply chains and locusts destroying crops and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa and South …

The distance between the origin and end-point of food supply chains, and the 'localness' of
food systems, are key considerations of many narratives associated with sustainability. Yet …

Meeting the increasing global demand for agricultural products without depleting the limited
resources of the planet is a major challenge that humanity is facing. Most studies on global …