Mario Herrero

Jul 9, 2024 | nature.com | Hao Zhao |Zhaohai Bai |Lin Ma |Zhenling Cui |Juraj Balkovic |Mario Herrero | +1 more

AbstractChina’s imports of livestock feed, particularly protein-rich feeds, pose challenges to global environmental sustainability. Achieving protein self-sufficiency for food and feed in China without exceeding environmental boundaries requires integrated measures and optimization of China’s food system.

Dec 23, 2023 | foodtank.com | Lawrence Haddad |Jessica Fanzo |Kate Schneider |Mario Herrero

1 Articles0 Comments Dr Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director of The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and winner of the 2018 World Food Prize. Jessica Fanzo is a Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative at the Columbia Climate School. Dr. Kate Schneider is a research scholar at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Dec 19, 2023 | foodtank.com | Lawrence Haddad |Jessica Fanzo |Kate Schneider |Mario Herrero

Last week, COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, signaled its intent to bring food systems into future COP negotiations. Until now, fixing food systems had hardly been on the environmental agenda, with most attention going to the energy sector. Yet there is a clear consensus that food systems are badly affected by extreme weather events and offer a solution for our climate crisis. They produce around 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.