Extreme weather: food prices stay high into 2022
The Financial Times reports that extreme weather events in 2021 triggered spikes in the prices of agricultural commodities, which remained ...
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Soil degradation costs the UK £1.2 billion each year
The biggest medium to long term risk to local food production is from climate change and other environmental pressures, according ...
The disturbing truth about avocados
According to The Telegraph newspaper, it’s estimated that 34 per cent of the world’s man-made greenhouse-gas emissions are linked in ...
The last 20 years changed what Americans eat
Kemi Ingram writes in The Week that the market for healthy and sustainable food is booming. The last 20 years ...
UK consumers want food protected in trade deals
UK consumers are overwhelmingly in favour of protecting current food standards in future trade deals, according to a new Which? ...
Business can help in the region with the world’s worst emergency: Afghanistan
Responding to the world’s biggest emergency, meet Kate Newton, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East & North Africa, at ...
Focus on resilient food chains, Menker says
Bloomberg reports that soaring food costs and unprecedented shocks in the global supply chain are warnings that the world needs ...
COP26 hasn’t solved the problem, scientists warn
Nature magazine reports that researchers have expressed relief at the COP26 agreement, but some sought stronger commitments to reduce emissions, ...
Local crop action urged to mitigate new climate change trend
Atmospheric drought, an under-researched crop stress, is reducing yields globally, meaning urgent action is needed to protect food security, according ...
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 ...
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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