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Calls for more pressure on meatpackers
Meatpackers face insufficient market pressure to invest in better traceability or sustainability, according...
Big Data – caution not luddism
Farming is always being urged to modernise. Newer, bigger, faster tractors. Combines that...
Future UK laws to respect the distress and pain of lobsters, crabs and octopuses
Rules around the humane killing of lobsters, crabs and octopuses are expected to...
Default to sustainable meat options says WBCSD
The go-to food culprit for climate change is meat – we’ll hear it...
Child labour plagues our food system says World Benchmarking Alliance
A “shocking lack of action” over child and forced labour has been exposed...
Rapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire...
UN: almost 90 per cent of food subsidies are harmful
Agricultural subsidies must be reformed to reduce the health and environmental damage they...
CEOs address agrifood’s $10 trillion accounting deficit
Industry, NGOs and policy experts have responded to the US$10.8 trillion deficit created...
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...
Harmonised eco-labelling: crucial to avoid confusion
Harmonised eco labelling is crucial to avoid confusion, as Nestlé aims to cut...
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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