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A rapid review of meta-analyses and systematic reviews of environmental footprints of food commodities and diets

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Policy Action Within Urban African Food Systems to Promote Healthy Food Consumption: A Realist Synthesis in Ghana and Kenya

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Challenges and opportunities to scale up sustainable finance after the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons and promising innovations from science and practice

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The role of resilience in food system studies in low- and middle-income countries

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Implementation of healthy food environment policies to prevent nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in Ghana: National experts’ assessment of government action

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Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat

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Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets

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Survey on Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) change analysis in remote sensing and GIS environment: Techniques and Challenges

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Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks

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Can low-income households afford a healthy diet? Insufficient income as a driver of food insecurity in Europe

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The global value of water in agriculture

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Benchmarking as a Public Health Strategy for Creating Healthy Food Environments: An Evaluation of the INFORMAS Initiative (2012–2020)

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The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

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Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

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An 11-country study to benchmark the implementation of recommended nutrition policies by national governments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015-2018

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The INFORMAS healthy food environment policy index (Food-EPI) in Mexico: An assessment of implementation gaps and priority recommendations

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Waste Mismanagement in Developing Countries: A Review of Global Issues

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FAO/WHO GIFT (Global Individual Food consumption data Tool): a global repository for harmonised individual quantitative food consumption studies

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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

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Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

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Transitioning from change detection to monitoring with remote sensing: A paradigm shift

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Changing risks of simultaneous global breadbasket failure

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A diagnostic framework for food system governance arrangements: The case of South Africa

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Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

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Improving policy coherence for food security and nutrition in South Africa: a qualitative policy analysis

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Evaluating Synergies and Trade-Offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Explorative Analyses of Development Paths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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From Resistance to Transformation: A Generic Metric of Resilience Through Viability

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Concepts and critical perspectives for food environment research: A global framework with implications for action in low- and middle-income countries

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Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries

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The Affordability of MyPlate: An Analysis of SNAP Benefits and the Actual Cost of Eating According to the Dietary Guidelines

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Biochemical, hydrological and mechanical behaviors of high food waste content MSW landfill: Liquid-gas interactions observed from a large-scale experiment

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Harnessing informal institutions to strengthen social protection for the rural poor

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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence

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Food systems transformations, ultra-processed food markets and the nutrition transition in Asia

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Seven Food System Metrics of Sustainable Nutrition Security

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Reframing the land-sparing/land-sharing debate for biodiversity conservation

(2015) Claire Kremen   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale

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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

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Monitoring progress in NCDs: key to accountability

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Extreme vulnerability of smallholder farmers to agricultural risks and climate change in Madagascar

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Understanding Sustainable Diets: A Descriptive Analysis of the Determinants and Processes That Influence Diets and Their Impact on Health, Food Security, and Environmental Sustainability

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Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

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Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: Experience from the Niger River basin

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Quantitative determination of fluorochemicals in municipal landfill leachates

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A revised approach to water footprinting to make transparent the impacts of consumption and production on global freshwater scarcity

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Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research

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