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Business can help in the region with the world’s worst emergency: Afghanistan
Responding to the world’s biggest emergency, meet Kate Newton, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East & North Africa, at the World Food Programme, based in Cairo. This region delivers some of...
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Future UK laws to respect the distress and pain of lobsters, crabs and octopuses
Rules around the humane killing of lobsters, crabs and octopuses are expected to change, as the UK government acknowledges them...
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Close to half the calories produced in America go uneaten
Americans are wasting enough food for 150 million people a year – more than four times the country's need, as...
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Big Data – caution not luddism
Farming is always being urged to modernise. Newer, bigger, faster tractors. Combines that almost drive themselves. GPS-driven precision sprays and...
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How the food sector protected its own interests at COP26
With the Food Research Collaboration, I studied the United Nations’ official list of registered participants to COP26 in Glasgow.
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COP26 announcements welcomed by institutional investors in food
The writing is on the wall with reform inevitable, says executive director of the FAIRR Initiative Maria Lettini. She is optimistic about last week’s COP26 announcements which will “have to address” animal agriculture. Representing...
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Strike Two: competitors join forces on blockchain solutions
Agrifood needs collaboration to overcome its inherent dysfunction – but how can this be done while allowing competition to thrive? Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt, founder of Strike Two, says, by applying blockchain. It...
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COP26: Hemp not politicians or billionaires will solve climate change
The “dehumanised” politicians and business leaders attending COP26 in Glasgow won’t solve climate change, because they cannot, says Green Revolution founder Attila Suba. He has a better idea and it can be summed up...
Read moreUN expert seeks accountability over 600 dead Indian protestors
A UN special rapporteur has called for accountability in the heavy-handed response to protesting farmers in India. He added that the Indian government should now progress any reform with full respect for human rights across economic, social and cultural factors. UN special rapporteur on the Right to...
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