Consumption and production

Sustainable production and consumption is about doing more with less, and doing it better — building sustainable infrastructure, ensuring efficient use of natural resources, and generating cleaner energy and less waste. By engaging diverse stakeholders, achieving sustainable production and consumption will generate lasting solutions that promote healthier ecosystems and economies, and safer livelihoods.

UNU research focuses on the processes, practices, and governance of product cycles and value chains, and spotlights how traditional practices can be scaled alongside modern systems and management techniques.

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Seminar

Rent and Surplus Value in the Data Economy: Implications for Data Governance

The UNU-MERIT Seminar Series is pleased to announce an upcoming research seminar featuring Maria Savona, Full Professor of Economics at Luiss University and Professor of Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex. Her research focuses on technological change and innovation, employment and wage inequality, industrial policy, and structural change.

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News

Metabolism at the Core of Sustainability

A course coordinated by Nara Brandao taught students how to read metabolic signals to optimize livestock performance

27 Oct 2026

Event

CILAC 2026-UNESCO Chair Panel on Science and Agriculture: Sustainability and Competitiveness

A roundtable at Foro CILAC 2026 on how science and innovation are transforming agriculture, sustainability and competitiveness in Latin America

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News

Meat the Light

Sofía Castaño is advancing optical methodologies to assess meat for traceability, paving the way to other non-destructive tisular probes

25 Sep 2026

News

Turning the Tables: Getting a Pathogen to Work for Us

María José Acuña studies Salmonella's molecular secretion systems to recruit them for bioproduction

22 Sep 2026

Symposium

Call for Papers: Economic Fitness and Complexity Symposium

The Economic Fitness and Complexity Symposium invites research on innovation, structural change and development.

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