Selected Scientific Publications

Research needs for a food system transition - Climatic Change

Sonali Shukla McDermid, Matthew Hayek, Dale W. Jamieson, Galina Hale & David Kanter, 5 April 2023

Animal agency in wildlife conservation and management - Conservation Biology

Émilie Edelblutte, Roopa Krithivasan and Matthew Hayek, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2023 - PDF

The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture - Science Advances

Matthew Hayek, 2 November 2022

Missing the grassland for the cows: Scaling grass-finished beef production entails tradeoffs - Agricultural and Environmental Letters

Matthew Hayek, 11 July 2022

The ‘Sustainability Gap’ of US Broiler Chicken Production - Royal Society Open Science

Iris Chan, Becca Franks and Matthew Hayek, 1 June 2022

Pre-and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems - Earth System Science Data

Francesco N. Tubiello, Kevin Karl, Alessandro Flammini, Johannes Gütschow, Griffiths Obli-Laryea​​​​​​, Giulia Conchedda, Xueyao Pan, Sally Yue Qi, Hörn Halldórudóttir Heiðarsdóttir, Nathan Wanner, Roberta Quadrelli, Leonardo Rocha Souza, Philippe Benoit, Matthew Hayek, David Sandalow, Erik Mencos Contreras​​​​​​​, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Jose Rosero Moncayo, Piero Conforti and Maximo Torero, 14 April 2022.

Underestimates of methane from intensively raised animals could undermine goals of sustainable development - Environmental Research Letters

Matthew Hayek and Scot Miller, 4 June 2021

Finding and fixing food system emissions: the double helix of science and policy - Environmental Research Letters

Cynthia Rosenzweig, Francesco N Tubiello, David Sandalow, Philippe Benoit and Matthew Hayek, 8 June 2021

Closing Research Investment Gaps for a Global Food Transformation - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Alex Bollington, Marcia DeLonge, Dhara Mungra, Matthew Hayek, Mustafa Saifuddin and Sonali Shukla McDermid, 30 November 2021

The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land - Nature Sustainability

Matthew Hayek, Helen Harwatt, William Ripple and Nathaniel Mueller, 07 September 2020 - PDF

Nationwide shift to grass-fed beef requires larger cattle population - Environmental Research Letters

Matthew Hayek and Rachael Garrett, 25 July 2018

Carbon exchange in an Amazon forest: from hours to years - Biogeosciences

Matthew Hayek, Marcos Longo, Jin Wu, Marielle N. Smith, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Raphael Tapajós6, Rodrigo da Silva6, David R. Fitzjarrald, Plinio B. Camargo, Lucy R. Hutyra, Luciana F. Alves, Bruce Daube, J. William Munger, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Scott R. Saleska and Steven C. Wofsy, 15 Aug 2018