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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Fertilisers: going cold turkey in a time of crisis
Farmers across the world began shunning fertiliser in late March as prices skyrocketed, so much so that now stockpiles are ...
US overpaid corn farmers $3 billion in Trump trade aid
The Department of Agriculture overpaid US corn farmers in 2019 by around US$3 billion for impacts from former President Trump’s ...
India’s protesting farmers remain in place
Protesting Indian farmers remained in place over the weekend while their key coalition of unions, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, met. The ...
UN: almost 90 per cent of food subsidies are harmful
Agricultural subsidies must be reformed to reduce the health and environmental damage they lead to, according to a new UN ...
Sustainable diets: “It’s about our survival as a human species”
Europeans are living longer but in poor health due to dietary trends which are causing environmental as well as physical ...
OECD: Agriculture subsidies ineffective, or harm, food systems
Half of global financial support to agriculture distorts the market, creates inequity, harms the environment and obstructs food security, according ...
How overfishing can stop, for conservation and food security
As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s ...
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 ...
Delhi police sedition action against Greta Thunberg is chilling, say activists
Pop star Rhianna and climate activist Greta Thunberg have waded into a months-long protest by tens of thousands of farmers ...
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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