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 ...
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Guterres: Climate crisis poses enormous financial risk
A crucial UN climate change report says global warming of 2°C will be exceeded this century without rapid action. This ...
Universal support for the Omnilabel at UN pre-Food Systems Summit event
The urgency for a UN-led omnilabel cannot be over-stated, we heard, on July 27 at Quota’s pre-Food Systems Summit event, ...
IPES withdraws from the Food Systems Summit
Three food system leaders, including a UN Special Rapporteur, have stepped down from their roles on the UN Food Systems ...
7,000 children under five will die from hunger every day
The impact of Covid will kill an extra 258 children a day from malnutrition, according to a report in Nature ...
Scientists and academics petition against UN Food Systems Summit
Over 300 scientists and academics are boycotting the UN’s first Food Systems Summit to be held later this year. They’ve ...
UN: Unleashing consumer power to fix the food system
Quota's proposal to the UN Food Systems Summit for a global, unifying label rating food against all relevant human rights ...
Biden nominates Cindy McCain to UN food agencies
Politico reports that President Joe Biden named four ambassador nominees on Wednesday, including Cindy McCain, the wife of the late ...
UK food insecurity quadrupled since 2018
Around 8.4 million Britons struggle to get enough to eat, according to the latest figures from the UN, which puts ...
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 ...
Rapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire supply chains, making the information public through...
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