This paper argues that today’s food environments and food systems around the world are dominated by the corporate-industrial food industry, and that this is undermining sustainable human development and public health on a global scale. It calls for an ecological approach to regulation that considers the economic, environmental, and political dimensions of complex food systems...

The coronavirus pandemic is a defining moment for business leaders as they reset the workforce, restore stability and strive to achieve growth in a sustainable manner that benefits all stakeholders. This paper argues that business organisations should seek to work towards a more holistic approach to valuing the workforce and the return on human capital...

This report includes three notes for G20 countries: the policy challenges for strengthening the participation of farmers into modern agriculture, the need for a transformation in the skillset of agricultural workers, and the contribution of agriculture to the realisation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The research described in this article integrated objective and subjective human analyses of the built environment. The Affect-Based Built Environment Video Analytics (BEST) gathers and analyzes data on human affective attitudes and emotional and physiological states in the built environment and delivers these to city planners and stakeholders in maintenance and management.

World Bank's 2019 Annual World Development Report comes at a time where the global economy is growing and the poverty rate is the lowest in recorded history. Technology brings a further wave of uncertainty as the pace of innovation continues to accelerate, both creating opportunities, increasing productivity and eliminating low-skill jobs in advanced economies and...