Vertical farming: hope or hype?
According the Financial Times, vertical farming has become a hot topic during the coronavirus pandemic, as supply chain disruptions and ...
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Feeding the world byte by byte
Landscape News reports that digitization is taking too long to reach fields and farms. Feeding the world byte by byte ...
Biodiversity lost via $380 billion in food sector finance last year
Banks funding the biodiversity loss connected to food production have been identified in a new report by campaigners Portfolio.earth. The ...
School meals: Marcus Rashford proud
The BBC reports that footballer Marcus Rashford "couldn't be more proud... " of the community response to his campaign to ...
Shock: Red Tractor chair votes to lower food standards
Farmers Weekly reports that farm leaders have expressed disbelief after the chair of the company behind the Red Tractor Assurance ...
UK benefits unsuccessful claimants are going hungry
Around 15% of unsuccessful benefits claimants have gone hungry because they can’t afford food, according to new research from Salford ...
The consequences of a no deal Brexit
The government’s own modelling suggests the hit to GDP after 15 years would be almost 8% with no deal, against ...
Illegal fishing devastates the seas and abuses crews
A Leader in The Economist says illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing accounts for a staggering 20-50% of the global catch. ...
Brexit the only Christmas turkey this year, perhaps
The UK faces Christmas without turkey this year, and in the future, as Brexit work schemes are set to interfere ...
Lords win vote to protect post-Brexit food standards
The BBC reports that the UK government has suffered defeats in the House of Lords in an ongoing tussle over ...
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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