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Donors back $280 million for Afghan food
Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund...
WholeFoods “banned” Black Lives Matter masks
Bloomberg reports that Whole Foods Market illegally banned employees from wearing “Black Lives...
Meet the entrepreneurs under 30 transforming food
The 2022 Forbes Food & Drink 30 Under 30 list list includes 27-year-old...
Big Data – caution not luddism
Farming is always being urged to modernise. Newer, bigger, faster tractors. Combines that...
World Bank backs aid to Afghanistan
Reuters reports that the World Bank's board has backed transferring $280 million from...
Maine’s new right to food’s legal challenges
The Economist reports that earlier this month 61 per cent of voters opted...
Poorest face food crisis amid fertiliser shortage
Svein Tore Holsether, chief executive of Yara International, has told the BBC that...
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...
Indigenous tribes preserve food culture
An NPR audio piece says the origin story of America's Thanksgiving holiday imagines...
Unilever tea bidders had rights concerns
The Financial Times reports that two of the three final bidders for Unilever’s...
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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