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Seed stories from lockdown in the UK
As well as supermarket panic buying, seed sellers also saw huge spikes in sales. Seed producer David Price describes how,...
You tell us: innovating in lockdown
Matthew Cushen is a London-based investor, strategist and consultant in food retail, via his dual businesses Worth Capital and Uprising...
UN: 35% of food systems jobs at risk from Covid-19
Coronavirus will slash global economic output by US$8.5 trillion over the next two years, severely impacting food security and those...
How Europe avoided US meatpacking catastrophe
The Food & Environmental Reporting Network looks at why Europe did not suffer the same meatpacking crisis from Covid-19 as...
Lulim’s 50,000-year food system is among the oldest in history
Accidents, luck and legal wins combined to pass responsibility for a country rich with food – though never in history...
The world’s oldest flood story: the Dumbi
Neil Maru Jnr, Winjaryin, retells the Dreaming, or Lalai, tale about the masked owl. This Afterword follows our three-part long-read...
This is the time to mend hospitality’s toxic culture
Covid-19 lockdown is a once in a lifetime opportunity to address the brutality of our industry's culture, with depression, stress...
US: big four meatpackers subpoenaed
Bloomberg reports that in America, the Justice Department is formally demanding information from the country’s four biggest meatpackers over potential...
With the Local closed how are the locals doing?
I went past my local the other day as I walked my dog as part of the lockdown exercise allowance....
Stanley Tucci joins London poem for food
Yotam Ottolenghi, Asma Khan, Stanley Tucci and other acclaimed chefs and restauranteurs have taken part in a poetic appeal to...
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