World’s food supply slammed by drought, floods and frost
Bloomberg reports that extreme weather is slamming crops across the globe, bringing with it the threat of further food inflation ...
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Scientists and academics petition against UN Food Systems Summit
Over 300 scientists and academics are boycotting the UN’s first Food Systems Summit to be held later this year. They’ve ...
UN: Unleashing consumer power to fix the food system
Quota's proposal to the UN Food Systems Summit for a global, unifying label rating food against all relevant human rights ...
Displacement of Indigenous Peoples by food system must end
A new UN report by Indigenous Peoples outlines how indigenous knowledge can support the first Food Systems Summit, to be ...
Environment pioneer Buckminster Fuller and an early eco label
How valid is the prospect of a unifying food label scheme addressing all the human rights implications of consumer choices? ...
Guterres: Food Systems Summit must address record acute hunger
Acute hunger is at a five-year high, affecting at least 155 million people in 55 countries - 20 million more ...
Lack of regulation and coherence could undermine “eco” labels
Consistency across labelling is needed before consumer power can drive food systems change, say Oxford University researchers. In the first ...
“This summit must not get bogged down in battles”
Welt Hunger Hilfe has interviewed agricultural scientist Professor Joachim von Braun who heads the Scientific Group for the UN Food Systems ...
Corporates asked to play a key role in “ending hunger by 2030”
Businesses and in particular food businesses which have thrived in the Covid pandemic are being asked to support a fund ...
Dream big Food Systems Summit – we want a label rating everything that matters
Consumers want to know this stuff. Was primary forest destroyed to produce this product? Were indigenous people dispossessed or even ...
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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