Natural Resources Institute

Disruptive shocks in global agri-food value chains: a comparative analysis of impact trajectories across 12 case studies

Agri-food value chains (AFVCs) are exposed to compound, complex climatic, geopolitical, and market shocks, yet prevailing resilience frameworks treat the impact of these disruptions as linear, sector-specific, and primarily from a technical perspective. This paper challenges such...

Structural genome variation drives adaptation of the xylose-fermenting yeast Scheffersomyces stipitis to lignocellulosic hydrolysates

Abstract Second-generation (2G) bioethanol from lignocellulosic feedstocks is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. However, its production is constrained by the poor performance of industrial microbes in hydrolysates that are generated during biomass pretreatment. Scheffers...