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Featured report: Grazed and Confused? It is safe to say that the debate over grass-fed meat has left people either polarised or confused. Is grass-fed better or is it worse for the climate? What’s actually true?

Project: Plating up Progress? A collaborative project to define usable metrics for assessing food industry progress in delivering sustainable and healthy diets.

New Foodsource building block: What is food loss and food waste? This building block examines different understandings of what should count as food loss or food waste, as well as providing global statistics and exploring ‘hierarchies’ for prevention and treatment of food loss and waste. 

Blog post: What narratives do companies use to promote alternative proteins such as plant-based meat replacements, insect-based foods and cellular agriculture products? In this blog post, Alexandra Sexton analyses marketing strategies used by alternative protein companies and counter-narratives from the livestock sector.

In Fodder this week: A review paper assesses the impacts on productivity and biodiversity of intensification of land use in different types of production systems - reducing meat consumption, shifting to diets rich in offal and reducing waste could all lower the emissions of the German meat supply chain - reforesting pasture land in the UK could contribute to climate mitigation - and a new collaboration on sustainable edible fats and oils is launched.