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How the food sector protected its own interests at COP26
With the Food Research Collaboration, I studied the United Nations’ official list of registered participants to COP26 in Glasgow.
Advice on food to help recover from Covid-19
The BBC reports that the Recovery Knowledge Hub, launched by the University of Plymouth, asks people about their current diet...
UN: Agrifood pollution is up by 17 per cent
Agrifood emits 31 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, 16.5 billion tonnes, up by 17 per cent from 1990,...
Global shoppers pinched by rising food prices
The Financial Times says global food prices have surged because of bad weather, such as droughts in North and South...
Cost of breakfast foods hits 10-year high
The cost of food commodities that make up a typical breakfast has soared to its highest point in a decade...
Default to sustainable meat options says WBCSD
The go-to food culprit for climate change is meat – we’ll hear it increasingly in sound bites from politicians during...
Diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
The Economist says the range of human foods is a reflection of ecological and anthropological variety—the consequence of tens of...
The regenerative revolution in food
The BBC reports that, having spent decades on the fringes of the agriculture community, carbon farming is starting to catch...
Editing: a Disin-gene-uous business?
Euractiv reports that the UK is currently aligned with the EU framework on gene-editing technologies, as organisms produced using these techniques are...
Over-arching monitoring framework needed, say experts
Leading scientists and experts have called for an over arching framework to monitor food systems. They say the High-Level Panel...
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