Bridging the divide: Why the science-policy interface matters for global food systems

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.