Re-direct farm subsidies to help consumers buy healthy food: UN
The world’s US$630 billion a year in food and agriculture subsidies should to be re-directed, helping consumers to afford healthy ...
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The Economist: The coming food catastrophe
The Economist reports that Russia's war on Ukraine is set to cause hundreds of millions more people to fall into poverty. ...
OECD to help G7 nations achieve sustainable agrifood
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will help G7 counties harmonise supply chain rules to make agrifood more ...
Food security affected as Ukraine agriculture season begins
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to food and fuel price hikes costing the UN World Food Programme (WFP) an ...
We may be headed for global food cost crises in 2022
The past year saw significant increases in international food prices. Will extreme weather, spiralling prices of natural resources and war ...
Food prices will stay high, hurting poor countries
The Economist says that Covid-19 had a counter-intuitive effect on food prices. In early 2020, when much of the world ...
UN: Agrifood pollution is up by 17 per cent
Agrifood emits 31 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, 16.5 billion tonnes, up by 17 per cent from 1990, ...
FAO’s Chief Economist on Global Food Outlook
Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, discusses the global food outlook ...
Governments must protect Indigenous Peoples’ food systems
Indigenous Peoples' food systems are at risk of disappearing and governments must help protect them, according to a new study. ...
Livestock’s nutrient-dense food addresses undernourishment
Insufficient access to livestock or animal-source foods is a major factor behind high rates of malnutrition that persist in many ...
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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