Bridging the divide: Why the science-policy interface matters for global food systems
2025-06-18
For decades, empirical evidence has pointed to the unsustainable trajectory of global food systems, linking industrialized production to soil degradation , water stress , and nutrition deficits across vulnerable populations and underscoring the urgent need for science-based policy interventions. But despite robust, peer‐reviewed evidence outlining both the magnitude of food‐system threats and an extensive array of potential science-backed interventions, structural obstacles such as institutional inertia, competing policy agendas, and chronic resource constraints have consistently prevented the uptake of scientific recommendations into effective policy frameworks.