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New Foodsource building block: Methane and the sustainability of ruminant livestock This new building block explores the question of how different ways of reporting the climate impact of methane relate to broader debates about the sustainability of ruminant livestock.

New blog post: RIP the FCRN and long live Table - In this blog post, the FCRN’s director Tara Garnett introduces Table, a new collaboration between the University of Oxford, Wageningen University and Research and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, which will launch later this year. Table will build on and ultimately replace the FCRN. Tara will remain actively involved as one of Table's Research Directors.

We are in the process of recruiting a strategic coordinator and fundraising director to help take our collaboration forward.

Featured publication: Food systems and greenhouse gas emissions This Foodsource chapter, written in 2016, addresses the following: How significant are the global food system’s greenhouse gas emissions as compared with other human caused emissions? Where in the food system do greenhouse gas emissions arise? And how do different parts of the food system differ in their contribution to overall emissions? What foods and types of food production contribute the most to emissions from agriculture? How are the emissions from foods affected by the location and seasonality of production, its transport, storage and packaging? How do food systems contribute to emissions from land use change, such as deforestation?

In Fodder this week: The vast majority of national dietary guidelines miss one of six global health and environmental targets; aquaculture accounts for 0.49% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions; ethical trading schemes may not be the best tool for protecting human rights; and antibiotic use in livestock is several times higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom.