MetamorphosisResearch and Advisory for TransformationResearch, policy and implementation
Assignments, collaborations and research that connect ideas with the conditions needed for change.
EAT–Lancet Commission · 2025
Costanza Conti contributed as a co-author to the EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems. This work connects questions of nutrition and environmental sustainability with justice—questions that also shape our research and advisory practice.
Global Nutrition Report · 2026
How can food and health systems work together to protect nutrition as the climate changes? See the contribution to the Global Nutrition Report examining these connections and their relevance to global nutrition targets.
In focus · Scaling
How do local innovations connect with wider changes in markets, infrastructure, research and policy?
Our research on two decades of millet-related work in Odisha examines how these changes interact—and why their sequence and timing matter.
Research, policy and implementation
A connected collection of assignments, collaborations and research informing our practice, including work undertaken by our founder in previous roles.
WorldFish
Understanding the conditions for renewable-energy innovations to become workable options in aquaculture.
EgyptCSIRO · RACE2030
Examining how networks support change across food, energy and transport—and how their contributions can be assessed.
Cross-sector researchResearch across six CGIAR cases
Understanding what works, what does not and why outcomes diverge from plans under uncertainty.
Africa and AsiaResearch with CSIRO and AgResearch
Exploring how mandates, capabilities and organisational arrangements shape the contribution research can make.
Institutional analysisGlobal Food Security · 2025
A systematic review of 40 cases across 24 countries examines how different actors contribute to transformation. It shifts attention from fixed actor categories to the functions, relationships and coordination needed for change.
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to food-system transformationOne Earth · 2025
An interrogative framework brings questions of justice into how transformation is understood and pursued, across past, present and future. It offers a starting point for further application and testing.
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