Food security meets Amazon protection in new UN project
A US$37 million project in Brazil is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 6 million tons of CO2 ...
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Calls for more pressure on meatpackers
Meatpackers face insufficient market pressure to invest in better traceability or sustainability, according to a new report. The Repórter Brasil investigation, produced ...
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.
Soaring food costs force families to scrimp
Food costs force families to scrimp Bloomberg reports that prices for food have been surging in much of the world, ...
Brazilians are increasingly going hungry
The Economist reports that Denize Xavier de Carvalho , a 40-year-old single mother, scoops rice onto the four plates in ...
UK supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott
Sky News reports that UK retailers have renewed their threat to stop buying products from Brazil as the South American ...
Indigenous groups sue Groupe Casino in France
Indigenous groups from the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon are suing retail giant Groupe Casino in France, for selling beef linked ...
Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads
The BBC reports that it has discovered parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook, the BBC ...
Fraud is spicing up black pepper and cumin powder
The high value of spices makes them one of the most popular targets for intentional adulteration, according to a blog ...
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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