US agriculture techniques to support climate action
A global collaboration to improve food systems through agriculture research was announced at President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate. Called ...
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Food Systems Summit: “Are foxes being invited into the hen house?”
The upcoming, first ever UN Food Systems Summit is a “huge time-sink” that will promote corporate interests rather than solving ...
MPs call for Right to Food to be enshrined in law for England
The UK government should consult on how a Right to Food could be introduced in England, according to a new ...
UN Food Rapporteur: states must protect citizens from hunger
Covid-19 has caused hunger that will last at least a decade, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right to ...
Youth leader: environmental cost of food production should be reflected at the till
Meet Eva Koffeman, 22, the first United Nations Youth Representative on Biodiversity & Food. She wants to see the full ...
The unthinkable thinkable: ending world hunger by 2030?
Euronews reports that, according to Dr Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and 23 ...
Food waste more than double previous estimates: UN report
Food waste dramatically exceeds previous estimates, according to a new UN Environment Programme report. Its findings reinforce the need for ...
Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit
The Guardian reports that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are planning to boycott the United Nations Food Systems ...
“Fetishisation of GDP” must stop say finance and banking leaders
World leaders in finance, banking and food systems have welcomed the first economic framework for biodiversity, calling for an urgent ...
Call for Indigenous contributions to Food Systems Summit
Indigenous contributions to this year’s UN Food Systems Summit have been requested with a deadline of March 5th. The call ...
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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