Will the UN and Elon Musk solve hunger over Twitter?
The fate of 30,000 people dying each day from hunger and malnutrition seems to depend on how one billionaire responds ...
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How the food sector protected its own interests at COP26
With the Food Research Collaboration, I studied the United Nations’ official list of registered participants to COP26 in Glasgow.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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