Cheap food culture creates slavery in supply chains
The Grocer says, Slavery shouldn’t have been accepted in 1821 and is definitely unacceptable in 2021. Yet UK food outlets still ...
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Agribusiness suppliers are risking food brands’ reputations
Agribusiness suppliers are risking the reputations and profits of their customers, the world’s biggest food brands, by failing to improve ...
Trawling emits as much CO2 as global aviation
The Financial Times says ocean trawling generates a similar volume of carbon emissions to the global aviation industry, driven by ...
Low-paid migrant workers ‘trapped’ on Britain’s farms
The Financial Times reports that between March 2020 and February 2021, Focus on Labour Exploitation, an NGO, investigated the experience ...
French food group Danone names new leaders
Reuters reports that Danone said on Monday Emmanuel Faber would step down as chairman and CEO, replaced immediately by Gilles ...
Fraud: nearly 40% of seafood in study mislabelled
A Guardian Seascape analysis of 44 recent studies of more than 9,000 seafood samples from restaurants, fishmongers and supermarkets in ...
Less barley, more deer: Covid is changing rural Britain
The Economist says, climb a rural hill in Britain this summer, and the view will be subtly different. Some of ...
UN looks to US private equity investor for Yemen
According to Reuters, the United Nations World Food Programme is hoping for a share of hundreds of millions of dollars ...
$400 for rice and beans? Cost of man-made famine
In war-torn South Sudan, “Food prices are so high that just one plate of rice and beans costs more than ...
COP 26: Glasgow climate talks must prioritise food systems
Nourish Scotland is leading a call to tackle food systems at UN COP26, because they generate one third of global greenhouse gas ...
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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