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Britain delays post-Brexit trade controls again
Reuters reports that Britain has delayed the implementation of some post-Brexit import controls for a second time, saying it would...
Bridge the gap between consumers and producers
Professor Tim Lang, Emeritus Professor of Food Policy, City University, has written to key decision makers at the UN Food Systems...
Brexit: EU ‘not looking for political victory’
According to the BBC, the EU is not looking for a "political victory" on the protocol, the European Commission vice...
Climate commitments dropped for Australia trade
Sky News reports that Liz Truss, the trade secretary, and Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, decided the UK government could...
Greenwashing will lead to hunger and displacement
An Oxfam report says carbon removal schemes are breaching the land rights of Indigenous people and could lead to food...
Americans are moving to a region plagued by drought
The Economist reports that America's West is in the grip of a 22-year megadrought that is the second-worst in the...
US to ban chlorpyrifos on food crops
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it will ban the use on food crops of the pesticide chlorpyrifos,...
US food assistance will increase to support nutrition
Food assistance in the US will increase following estimates that a healthy diet costs 21 per cent more than previously...
Saving uneaten food can help the climate
The BBC reports that twins Shirley and Annie Zhu were 15 when in 2017 they began collecting unsold food from...
Rashford asks healthcare workers to help battle food poverty
Food campaigner and England footballer Marcus Rashford has asked healthcare professionals to encourage more low income parents to sign up...
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