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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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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News

Planning for Climate-Adapted, Sustainable Agriculture

Layla Chmeit is looking to find agricultural allies among the inhabitants of harsh environments, which may be well prepared for what's coming.

13 Aug 2026

News

Exploring the Cell-to-Factory Path

Marcia Carrasco is evaluating parameters for the production scale-up of monoclonal antibodies, hoping to bring the technology to Bolivia

10 Aug 2026