Biden nominates Cindy McCain UN food agency ambassador
Politico reports that President Joe Biden named four ambassador nominees on Wednesday, including Cindy McCain, the wife of the late ...
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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 ...
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 ...
UN Food Rapporteur: states must protect citizens from hunger
Covid-19 has caused hunger that will last at least a decade, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right to ...
UK exporting a deadly pesticide that kills thousands
Channel 4 News in the UK has reported that tens of thousands of people have died from poisoning by a ...
$400 for rice and beans? Cost of man-made famine
In war-torn South Sudan, “Food prices are so high that just one plate of rice and beans costs more than ...
COP 26: Glasgow climate talks must prioritise food systems
Nourish Scotland is leading a call to tackle food systems at UN COP26, because they generate one third of global greenhouse gas ...
Dependence on nature reflected in new UN accounting framework
The United Nations has adopted a radical new framework that includes the contributions of nature when measuring economic prosperity and ...
Food waste: 900 million tonnes tossed
The BBC reports that more than 900 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year, according to the UN ...
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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