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“Sustainable” UK food labels will be mandatory, says leaked strategy
A leaked copy of England’s new food strategy says data transparency, to be adopted across the UK, will incentivise the food sector to "produce healthier and more ethical sustainable food". Campaigners have...
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Suppliers into the EU will shoulder burden of proof re: seized slave-made products
The European Parliament in Strasbourg has voted to strengthen laws banning products made by forced labour from the EU market....
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The shame of hunger “has been weaponised” to silence the poor in America
US food policy making is like Donald Trump’s all-male panel on women’s reproductive health, an advocate told the White House...
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OECD to help G7 nations achieve sustainable agrifood
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will help G7 counties harmonise supply chain rules to make agrifood more...
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Call for ideas: White House seeks to end hunger in the US by 2030
The White House in America has announced conference pillars and consultation dates ahead of President Biden’s Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in September. Consultations, called listening sessions, will be held from June 1st and...
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Exploding the five fat myths of ethical food
Consumers – in other words all of us who eat – want ethical food but we are confused. The reason is simple – there are no laws around what you can call sustainable or...
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Pesticides are not delivering food security and should be phased out: UN rapporteur
The FAO Council should reconsider its agreement with pesticide lobby group CropLife International, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Prof Michael Fakhri. He's concerned the agreement could put the human rights...
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Documentary maker Miki Mistrati wants consumers to know the truth about chocolate
Miki Mistrati has been documenting child labour in West Africa’s cocoa industry since 2007 – and he’s in therapy. “You never get used to this,” he says. “I want people to understand what they...
Read morePaying farmers 75p for each £1 consumers spend on their produce
I aim to introduce you to a new way of looking at business, in which the entrepreneur is a development actor, part of an ecosystem in which they can play a transformative role. This is regenerative business: “a business that acknowledges its place in the...
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