Drawing on a decade of research on food systems, the speaker will present selected results across production, consumption, trade, and scenario aspects of food systems. First, the speaker will explore the nexus of food production with water, energy, and land and its implications for climate and biodiversity, with applications in China and the European Union. Second, suggested scenarios and preliminary results for multiplex modelling of global food trade will be explored. Third, preliminary results of urban food system modelling will be presented, exploring a data-rich agent-based model for Amsterdam based on the results of behavioural research involving discrete choice experiments with food consumers and informing the co-evolution of sustainable menu consumption across restaurants in the city. To finalise, the speaker will present preliminary results from an expert elicitation on how to transform the global food system to reduce cascading effects reaching consumers in large cities. These research results will be accompanied by implications for researching emerging topics in the global change and sustainability arenas and with insights informing sustainable transformations.