To mark its 20th anniversary, the Elsevier Foundation has released an impact report highlighting its key partnerships and achievements. Since 2005, The Elsevier Foundation has awarded over $18 million in grant funding. These grants have supported more than 100 partners across 70+ countries, reinforcing a commitment to fostering inclusive research and healthcare and promoting better health outcomes and a more sustainable research ecosystem.
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Journal of Nutrition, Volume 155, July 2025
REFRESH is a practical, reliable tool for assessing dietary patterns that benefit both human health and the environment. Its simplicity and strong validity make it suitable for clinical, epidemiological, and self-assessment purposes, enabling broader promotion and adoption of sustainable healthy diets. By bridging the gap between health and sustainability in diet evaluation, REFRESH supports health professionals and the public in making informed dietary choices, contributing to improved health outcomes and reduced environmental impacts.
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Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Volume 46, July 2025
By minimizing food waste and optimizing production through predictive analytics and real-time monitoring, as well as by enhancing product quality and safety to improve food security and access to nutritious food the proposed framework reaches optimum organic food production. The alignment of production with demand forecasts also helps reduce waste and ensure the availability of the right products.
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Food Policy, Volume 134, July 2025
Multiple-season farming is linked to greater crop diversity, higher food consumption, and improved food security—especially for better-off and male-headed households—though it shows no significant effect on child nutrition. This approach also suggests potential benefits for household resilience, highlighting the need to support poorer and female-headed households in accessing resources for multiple-season cultivation.
Elsevier, iScience, Volume 28, 18 July 2025
The study highlights that per capita consumption and income are primary drivers of China's industrial process-related GHG emissions, with emission intensity and product structure changes serving as key offsetting factors, emphasizing the importance of macroeconomic and technological considerations for effective mitigation.
Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 25, 1 July 2025
The study highlights that distress related to climate change is influenced by factors different from those affecting general distress, with trust in government and emotion regulation playing key roles in climate change distress. These findings suggest important targets for intervention and emphasize the responsibility of economic and political sectors to communicate effectively and address public concerns about climate change.
Elsevier, Patterns, Volume 6, 11 July 2025
The authors present a holistic research agenda for sustainable computing that aims to reduce the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture and operation of future computer systems, a pressing objective given computings rapid growth in emerging applications such as artificial intelligence. The agenda integrates ideas in software design, hardware architecture, renewable energy infrastructure, power and carbon accounting, and economic policy.
