The current challenges affecting the EU food system call for an urgent shift towards more sustainability. As set out by the Commission Farm to Fork Strategy, the path to achieve such an ambitious goal should promote policy coherence at EU and national level, mainstream sustainability in...

This study is the result of a response to a policy request submitted by the European Union Delegation to Cameroon to the Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) through the KCBD ticketing system. We summarised changes in human population density (2010 - 2020), irrecoverable carbon stocks (2010...

The creation of favourable food environments that make sustainable food choices easier to consumers is critical to the EU transition to a more sustainable food system. An important barrier to sustainable food choices relates to the absence of clear and trustful information that could help...

The current challenges affecting the EU food system call for an urgent shift towards more sustainability. In this context, voluntary Green public procurement criteria (GPP), referring to the environmental dimension, exist at EU level since 2008. Sustainable public procurement (SPP) could play a...

The SDG Gender Index of Equal Measures 2030 is a multidimensional index that aligns to the normative framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and covers 56 gender issues in 14 of the 17 global goals in 139 countries across five regions of the world. The developers invited the...

The creation of favourable food environments that make sustainable food choices easier to consumers is critical to the EU transition to a more sustainable food system. An important barrier to sustainable food choices relates to the absence of clear and trustful information that could help...

The triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution), the Covid pandemic, financial crises, persisting poverty, social exclusion, increasing inequality, and societal polarisation all clearly demonstrate that GDP is incomplete as a measure of a country's economic...

Four years ago, as announced in the inaugural speech of President Von der Leyen before the European Parliament on 27 November 2019, the European Commission positioned sustainable development together with the digital agenda as the twin core elements of Europe's overall strategy for the present...

Four years ago, as announced in the inaugural speech of President Von der Leyen before the European Parliament on 27 November 2019, the European Commission positioned sustainable development together with the digital agenda as the twin core elements of Europe's overall strategy for the present...

This report introduces a preliminary mapping of the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) systems in Africa with the purpose of assessing countries' readiness to develop STI for SDGs roadmaps. Fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries are identified with high potential for STI for Sustainable...