Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit
The Guardian reports that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are planning to boycott the United Nations Food Systems ...
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UN: Reflect nature’s true value in economic policies
UN News reports, Nations must start weighing up the cost of economic profit against damage to the environment if they ...
Agri-food emissions alone could blow Paris climate targets
Only 12 out of 350 agri-food companies understand their responsibilities in the food system, according to new benchmarking. That’s just ...
690 million people are hungry despite the right to food
On Human Rights Day, we’re talking about the Right to Food. Nearly 690 million people are hungry, or 8.9 percent ...
Human Rights Day: We need legal recourse over our right to food
The proliferation of food banks across the UK this year indicates that our human right to food is sliding backwards, ...
“The name of that vaccine is human rights”
2020 is a year none of us will ever forget. A terrible, devastating year that has scarred so many of ...
2021 declared a Super Year for food and land use
The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium has said 2021 will be Super Year for food systems in its ...
UN Covid response: more research on food resilience needed
A new UN report identifying data research priorities highlights disruptions to farm production, food processing, transportation and consumer demand, which ...
WFP Nobel prize: food security is an instrument of peace
Food security's role at the heart of international unity has been confirmed, with the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the ...
#Epicfail over UN biodiversity targets
Global efforts have failed to reach any of the 20 biodiversity targets countries set a decade ago, the United Nations ...
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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