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 ...
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Quick fossil fuel wins in methane reduction to be implemented
A UN report has highlighted the extreme dangers of the greenhouse gas methane, as well as cost-effective measures to reduce ...
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 ...
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 ...
American food assistance scheme expanded
Further food assistance has been announced by the US Department of Agriculture with more support going to the Commodity Supplemental ...
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 ...
WHO Covid report leaves many stones unturned
The BBC looks at the joint WHO-China report on the origins of Covid-19, saying a lack of access to blood samples from ...
Lessons of hunger: new players in US food aid
Reuters reports that hunger in the US, the world’s richest country, has intensified in urban and rural areas where residents do ...
British public says government should prevent hunger
A Food Standards Agency report finds most UK people want the government to prevent hunger, and that food insecurity estimates ...
Less barley, more deer: Covid is changing rural Britain
The Economist says, climb a rural hill in Britain this summer, and the view will be subtly different. Some of ...
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...
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