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EU subsidies for chocolate companies profiting from child slaves would be “outrageous”
European Union subsidies to the end child labour in Ivory Coast would be a waste of taxpayer funds, spent corruptly...
April deadline for UK sustainable farming expressions of interest
The UK Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot has been launched in England, with a deadline of April 11 for expressions of...
Vilsack: we must redress systematic racism against black farmers
The US House Agriculture Committee has heard discrimination in federal farm loan programmes is the major reason black farmers have...
Will US relief package break black farmers’ cycle of debt?
A Centre for Public Integrity article says that over the past century, Black-owned land used for farming has dropped 85 per cent....
Youth leader: environmental cost of food production should be reflected at the till
Meet Eva Koffeman, 22, the first United Nations Youth Representative on Biodiversity & Food. She wants to see the full...
British public says government should prevent hunger
A Food Standards Agency report finds most UK people want the government to prevent hunger, and that food insecurity estimates...
Open Letter on the £120M (~49%) shortfall in UKRI ODA funding for 2021-2022
This Open Letter has attracted 4,500 signatories and climbing. It was sent to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and UK Chancellor of...
The unthinkable thinkable: ending world hunger by 2030?
Euronews reports that, according to Dr Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and 23...
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...
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