Editor's note

Who would you rather work for: Apple or Domino’s Pizza? When it comes to innovation and disruption, you might intuitively opt for the company behind all those new iPhones. But for Arturo Bris, Apple should no longer be considered an innovative growth company. If you look to the markets, he says, it’s actually Domino’s offering greater opportunities for growth.

Seaweed is a diet staple all over the world, and a key source of the essential mineral iodine. However, researchers have now found that although the effects of climate change will see the plant thrive in future acidic oceans, its nutritional content will change substantially. Georgina Brennan, Dong Xu and Naihao Ye explain their research and what this means for the future health of billions of people.

A recent report advised the UK government to reduce beef and lamb production by up to 50%, in order to substantially decrease the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. But, writes Charlotte Pritchard, there is a way to meet climate change commitments without cutting livestock numbers: agroforestry. This method of cultivating and planting trees on farmlands can have huge benefits for the environment, farmers and the animals too.

And on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being adopted by the United Nations, Peter Roderick and Allyson Pollock write on why rights that protect against socioeconomic disadvantage are long overdue.

Annabel Bligh

Business + Economy Editor

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Why Apple is no longer a byword for innovation – just ask the markets

Arturo Bris, IMD Business School

Who would you rather work for: Apple or Domino's Pizza?

Seaweed salad. Kongsak/Shutterstock

Ocean acidification will increase the iodine content of seaweeds – and the billions of people who eat them

Georgina Brennan, Bangor University; Dong Xu, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences; Naihao Ye, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences

Climate change will affect the nutrition of seaweeds eaten by billions of people around the world.

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Agroforestry can help the UK meet climate change commitments without cutting livestock numbers

Charlotte Pritchard, Bangor University

Integrating trees into farming systems can improve farming, help the environment, and boost animal welfare too.

Swingeing changes are overdue. Peter Gudella/Shutterstock

Rights that protect against socioeconomic disadvantage are long overdue – the UK is already paying the price

Peter Roderick, Newcastle University; Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University

In a divided, alienated, austerity, backward-looking Britain, the time has come to make good on social rights.

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