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Rapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire supply chains, making the information public through due diligence," according to Michael Fakhri the UN Rapporteur on the Right to...
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CEOs address agrifood’s $10 trillion accounting deficit
Industry, NGOs and policy experts have responded to the US$10.8 trillion deficit created by agrifood, addressing the health, social and...
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Co2: the latest hit to UK food’s structural vulnerability
Dwindling Co2 supplies is a structural vulnerability affecting the UK’s food security, industry leaders have warned. The British meat industry has...
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UN: almost 90 per cent of food subsidies are harmful
Agricultural subsidies must be reformed to reduce the health and environmental damage they lead to, according to a new UN...
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Bridge the gap between consumers and producers
Professor Tim Lang, Emeritus Professor of Food Policy, City University, has written to key decision makers at the UN Food Systems Summit, seeking a promise that human rights will make their way to the heart...
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Corporates: we’re not liable for failing to combat child labour
The world’s largest cocoa companies have responded to a class action in the US alleging responsibility for the trafficking of Malian children to Ivory Coast for forced labour. Human rights lawyer Terrence Collingsworth of...
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Guterres: Climate crisis poses enormous financial risk
A crucial UN climate change report says global warming of 2°C will be exceeded this century without rapid action. This level meets the critical tolerance thresholds for agriculture and health. The Intergovernmental Panel on...
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Universal support for the Omnilabel at UN pre-Food Systems Summit event
The urgency for a UN-led omnilabel cannot be over-stated, we heard, on July 27 at Quota’s pre-Food Systems Summit event, led by Professor Tim Lang and joined by Terrence Collingsworth who leads at IRAdvocates...
Read moreRapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire supply chains, making the information public through due diligence," according to Michael Fakhri the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He told the UN General Assembly that businesses should hold their subsidiaries responsible...
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