$10 billion food system commitment from Biden
US President Joe Biden announced a $10 billion commitment to improving the food system last week while addressing the UN ...
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Child labour plagues our food system says World Benchmarking Alliance
A “shocking lack of action” over child and forced labour has been exposed across agrifood, in a study that found ...
Climate change, hunger, demand transformation
The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports that Channing Arndt, a development economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute, told a ...
America is reducing poverty among children
The Economist reports that recent modelling by scholars at Columbia University estimates that in July child poverty was 41% lower ...
M&S blames Brexit, closes 11 French stores
The BBC reports that Marks & Spencer is closing 11 of its French stores because of problems supplying them with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Priciest food since 70s challenges governments
Bloomberg reports that governments across the world know that rising food costs can come with a political price. The dilemma ...
Britain delays post-Brexit trade controls again
Reuters reports that Britain has delayed the implementation of some post-Brexit import controls for a second time, saying it would ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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