Rapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire supply chains, making the information public through ...
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Tag: 2021 Food Systems Summit
UN: almost 90 per cent of food subsidies are harmful
Agricultural subsidies must be reformed to reduce the health and environmental damage they lead to, according to a new UN ...
CEOs address agrifood’s $10 trillion accounting deficit
Industry, NGOs and policy experts have responded to the US$10.8 trillion deficit created by agrifood, addressing the health, social and ...
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 ...
Food treaty needed from UN Food Systems Summit
Joachim von Braun, chair of the Scientific Group for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 has called for an intergovernmental ...
Universal support for the Omnilabel at UN pre-Food Systems Summit event
The urgency for a UN-led omnilabel cannot be over-stated, we heard, on July 27 at Quota’s pre-Food Systems Summit event, ...
Jeffrey Sachs to UN: food system based on extreme irresponsibility
The world food system is based on large multinational companies, private profits, and a very low measure of international transfers ...
Food industry starts to measure sustainability
The Financial Times says an increasing number of stakeholders in the world’s food system — including companies, non-profits, farmers and ...
Covid-19 has led to food crisis, says Italy’s Draghi
Reuters reports that the world must ensure access to food supplies as forcefully as it moved to ensure access to ...
IPES withdraws from the Food Systems Summit
Three food system leaders, including a UN Special Rapporteur, have stepped down from their roles on the UN Food Systems ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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