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Drive to cut obesity rates largely ineffective
The Guardian reports that warnings about Covid-19 to people with obesity are “largely ineffective”, placing too much emphasis on “individual...
No right to food in the UK
On Human Rights Day, we explore the impact of the Covid pandemic on our access to food. The Food Standards...
690 million people are hungry despite the right to food
On Human Rights Day, we’re talking about the Right to Food. Nearly 690 million people are hungry, or 8.9 percent...
I tried the world’s first no-kill chicken burger
The Guardian reports that a PhD in genetics might seem like an unusual requirement for the role of head chef....
Self-watering soil could transform crop production
Self-watering soil powered by solar heat has been developed by a research group in Austin, Texas. Using absorbent gels, it draws moisture...
2021 declared a Super Year for food and land use
The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium has said 2021 will be Super Year for food systems in its...
Human, animal and wildlife germ surveillance should be integrated
Authors of a World Bank blog have highlighted the importance of cooperation across human, veterinary and wildlife health services to...
UN Covid response: more research on food resilience needed
A new UN report identifying data research priorities highlights disruptions to farm production, food processing, transportation and consumer demand, which...
From Syria to Svalbard: rare seeds escaped war
A Wired feature explains the success of a plan to protect seeds which makes the researchers involved the stewards of humanity’s...
Consumers prefer UK and EU food to US-style produce currently banned
iscrete Choice Experiments have found consumers prefer UK and EU produced food and will pay more for it. Consumers were...
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