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.
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.
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.
More than 800 people from over 75 countries came together virtually on 3rd June 2025 for the eleventh edition of the RELX SDG Inspiration Day: "The Future of Philanthropy: Stepping up for the SDGs" The annual online event brings together together business, academia, NGOs and government to explore pressing issues and inspire action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Explore highlights from the day including inspiring keynotes from Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary General of the United Nations, Sir Lenny Henry and Sarah, Duchess of York.
Focusing on the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD), this study examines how drought and salinity intrusion from 2000 to 2020 influences rice cropping, aquaculture area, and rice yield across seven coastal provinces.
This study identified the gene PpNLR1 and its promoter variation as key factors conferring green peach aphid (GPA) resistance in peach, regulated by jasmonate-induced transcription factor PpERF109. Additionally, GPA salivary effectors activate the peach immune response through PpNLR1, offering valuable insights for breeding aphid-resistant peach cultivars.
This study examines the role of women’s leadership in the Wahana Usaha Jaya Cooperative in Bandung, Indonesia, in promoting household food waste reduction and community engagement. Findings show that WUJ’s spiritually motivated and economically empowering strategies effectively encourage waste reduction, particularly among women, despite ongoing infrastructural challenges. The study highlights that women-led, community-based cooperatives offer effective, context-sensitive models for urban environmental governance and advancing food security in the Global South.
This content aligns with SDG 2 and 3 by discussing the availability and nutritional qualities of pomegranate.
